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MEMORIAL CYCLOPEDIA

NEW JERSEY

UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF

MARY DEPUE OGDEN

ADVISORY BOARD

MRS. GARRET A. HOBART, MRS. R. V. W. FAIRCHILD,

PATERSON. PAESIPPANY.

MRS. JOSEPH D. BEDLE, MRS. ANDREW SINNICKSON,

JERSEY CITY. SALEM.

MRS. HENRY S. WHITE, .MISS ELIZABETH STRONG,

RED BANK. NEW BRUNSWICK.

MRS. CRAIG A. MARSH, MISS MARGARET O. HAINES,

PI.AINFIELD. BURLINGTON.

MRS. E. GAYLORD PUTNAM, MISS SARAH NATHALIE DOUGHTY.

ELIZABETH. ATLANTIC CITY.

MRS. JOHN MOSES, MRS. WILLIAM NELSON,

TRENTON. PATERSON.

MRS. MARY ROBESON SMITH,

BELVTDERE.

VOLUME II.

MEMORIAL HISTORY COMPANY
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY

1915

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COLES, Abraham,

Surgeon, Scholar, Statesman.

Abraham Coles, M. D., Ph. D., LL.D.,
son of Dennis and Catherine (Van Deur-
sen) Coles, was born December 26, 1813,
at Scotch Plains, New Jersey. His father
was then living on the ancestral farm, which
he had inherited, its title-deed antedating
the Revolution. He was a man of sterling
integrity, sound judgment, and rare literary
taste. He had been for a number of years
a printer and editor in Xewburg, New York,
of a newspaper — "The Recorder of the
Times." Bound volumes of this paper were
preserved and treasured by his son Abra-
ham, in whom he early cultivated his fond-
ness for study and for literature.

As a youth, Dr. Coles manifested a dil-
igent interest in the acquisition of knowl-
edge. His love of learning must have led
him to private study, for at the age of sev-
enteen he assisted Rev. Mr. Bond, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church of Plainfield.
in his school, as teacher of Latin and math-
ematics.

At eighteen years of age, he had resolved
to study law, and entered the office of Chief
Justice Joseph C. Hornblower, at Newark.
He seems soon to have discovered that he
could find a wider field for usefulness in
the practice of medicine than of law, for,
in less than a year, he left the office to study
for the medical profession. His resolution
to make himself acquainted with law, was,
however, never shaken. Throughout his
long life, his fondness for the law and his
knowledge thereof were recognized and
mentioned by Daniel Webster and others.

Having attended lectures at the Univer-

NOTE. — This narrative is from the pen of the
late Ezra M. Hunt, M.D., LL.D.

sity and at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, New York, and at Jefferson Col-
lege, Philadelphia, he graduated at the lat-
ter in 1835. Returning to his home, he
made a profession of his Christian faith,
uniting with the Scotch Plains Church,
under the pastorate of the Rev. John Rog-
ers. In 1836 he settled, for the practice of
the medical profession, in Newark, New
Jersey.

Those who knew him in early profession-
al life can well recognize how, with his
modesty, diffidence and reserve, he should
thus far not have revealed the amount of
knowledge he had acquired. Yet those who
met him were impressed with his command-
ing personality, his urbane and quiet dig-
nity, and somehow felt themselves in the
presence of a superior nature.

Besides thorough preparation in his pro-
fession, he evidently had spent much of
his time in the study of the classics, and
had acquired an accurate knowledge there-
of, such as is possessed by those who have
by dint of personal effort worked their way
into the genius and technicalities of a dead
language.

In 1842 he married Caroline E. Acker-
man, a good, noble, beautiful and ac-
complished daughter of Jonathan C. and
Maria (Smith) Ackerman, of New Bruns-
wick, New Jersey. The same year he
purchased for their home the premises
No. 222 Market street, Newark, New
Jersey, where their two children were
born — Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, and Miss
Emilie S. Coles. This homestead is still
owned by them.

After the death of his adored wife, in
1848, he went abroad, spending most of his
time in hospitals, and in the society of schol-
ars and of the most eminent physicians and
surgeons of Europe. He was in Paris dur-

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gave him -penal opp for surgical

study.

When I a- a -tuilent entered his office,
), Iii .inled as the most ac-

complished practitioner of Newark, and
eminent both fur his pmfe — imial and lit-
erary acquirements. I le liad already found
his prauice Miiticirnt tu admit a partner,
which he did all the more readily her.,
seeking to secure mure time for literary
study, and the indulgence of his taste both
in art and literature. He had been favored
in and out of his profession with such pe-
cuniary success — resulting mostly from ju-
dicious investment-, in real estate — as en-
abled him tu e< .mimic in practice chiefly for
the love of his calling. He was fond of
clinical exactness, was often called upon in
consultation, especially in surgical cases,
and had that conscientious regard for the
welfare of his patients which led him care-
fully to study and observe, so as to be skill-
ful in his treatment and devotedly attentive
to those in his charge. In 1854, he again
visited Europe. After an absence of seven-
teen months, during which he made the con-
tinental languages a study, he returned to
his practice in Newark. He then devoted
himself with increased knowledge and
earnestness to professional work, and for
many years, with another assistant, contin-
ued in the active practice of his profession.
In 1862, under the direction of an emi-
nent English landscape gardener, he began
the laying out and beautifying of seven-
teen acres of the ancestral farm at Scotch
Plains, selecting for his plantings the
choicest varieties of foreign and domestic
trees, plants and shrubs. In one portion
of this park, he located a reproduction of
the famous labyrinth at Hampton Court.
near London. In another part, he enclosed
a large paddock for' a herd of deer of his
own raising. lie built, subsequently, a
house of brick and stone and native woods,
in harmony with the grounds. In this he
resided with his son and daughter, and was

a most genial and entertaining host. His
large library with its contents was the
pc-cial admiration of his many guests.
Among the imported copies of antiques on
the lawn is one of /Esculapius, and in the
house Horatio Stone's marble bust of Har-
M ,, and other marbles, bronzes and paint-
ings of the different schools by artists of
the highest merit. On the highest point
i if bis mountain-land opposite his home, he
erected a handsome rustic tower, two
stories high.

While retiring from the more active du-
ties of a general practice, he was for many
years daily at his Newark office; and also,
as a favor, allowed many of those who liv-
ed near his country home, "Deerhurst," to
avail themselves of his advice. In fact, it
cannot be said that he relinquished practice
at all, or allowed his increasing literary dis-
tinction and his business duties to interfere
with his devotion to his chosen pursuit.
He was eminently a physician, amid all
other eminence. He delighted in his profes-
sion, both as a science and as an art. He
felt his calling to be a sacred one. It was
a part of his ministry for the Master whom
be loved to serve. He lived to assuage
pain, and to be courageous in relieving sick-
ness and postponing death ; rejoicing in the
good he was thus enabled to do for human-
ity and for God.

How loyal he was to his profession, amid
the greater glow of literary fame and the
temptations of wealthy ease, let "The Mi-
crocosm" testify. This poetic address of
his, as president of the Medical Society of
New Jersey in 1866, should be read and re-
read by every physician as an inspiration to
accurate knowledge, to close analysis, to
professional enthusiasm, and to adoring
love. It leaves a poor excuse for any of us,
if we are not inspired by the theme of our
studies, and the object of our life service.
It does not ignore that which is material
and world-wise, but it crowns it with that
which is spiritual and eternal. It shows how
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tegral and essential Christianity is to those
who live to minister to their fellow-men in
sickness and in death. As he expresses it
in his note as to Vesalius : "The Divine
Redeemer, the Incarnate Word, Maker of
all things, Lord of life, is Lord also of the
Sciences."

In the Physician's edition of "The Micro-
cosm," as published by the Appletons, he
introduces several illustrations. One is the
portrait of Vesalius devoutly engaged in
dissection, which he inserts as illustrative
of these lines :

Dear God ! this BODY, which, with wondrous art

Thou hast contrived, and finished part by part,

Itself a universe, a lesser all,

The greater cosmos crowded in the small —

I kneel before it, as a thing divine ;

For such as this, did actually enshrine

Thy gracious Godhead once, when Thou didst

make

Thyself incarnate, for my sinful sake.
Thou who hast done so very much for me,

0 let me do some humble thing for Thee!

1 would to every Organ give a tongue,
That Thy high praises may be fitly sung:
Appropriate ministries assign to each,
The least make vocal, eloquent to teach.

Another is Rembrandt's well-known
"Lesson in Anatomy," which he inserts
with the description, beginning thus :

The subject MUSCLES — girded to fulfill
The lightning mandates of the sovereign Will —
Th' abounding means of motion, wherein lurk
Man's infinite capacity for work.

A third is "Harvey Demonstrating to
Charles I. his theory of the Circulation
of the Blood" :

Make room, my HEART ! that pour'st thyself

abroad,
Deep, central, awful mystery of God !

Well may he be called the Physician-
Poet ! He received the degree of A. M.
from Rutgers College. In 1860 he received
the degree of Ph.D. from Lewisburg Uni-
versity, and that of LL.D. from Princeton
College in 1871.

Dr. Coles had reached such a vigorous
old age as still to promise many years of
life. In the early Spring (1891), he had
the prevailing influenza, which left him
with a cough, and some mild symptoms
which puzzled him, as they have so many
others, but which seemed to give no occa-
sion for alarm. As a recreation, he pro-
posed a trip to California with his son and
daughter and a sister-in-law. They left
home April I4th. The trip was a disap-
pointing one, for, although his powerful
constitution enabled him to go everywhere,
his cough defied all treatment, and by rea-
son thereof he grew weaker instead of
stronger. After a week's stay at the beau-
tiful Hotel del Monte, California, where
he received every possible courtesy and at-
tention, heart complication suddenly set in
as a sequel to la grippe. Unable to recline,
he calmly realized the serious nature of his
symptoms, and with words of Christian
faith and love, passed away, (May 3d,
1891), to be, as one of his own hymns so
well expresses it — "Ever, my Lord, with
Thee."

The funeral of Dr. Coles took place in
the commodious Peddie Memorial Church,
Newark, New Jersey, May 2Qth, and was
largely attended by his medical and literary
friends and those in other walks of life
who had known him in the various relations
he had sustained. Appreciatory letters
were received by his family from the Uni-
versities of Oxford and Cambridge, Eng-
land ; from the Royal Society, London ;
from the Academic des Sciences, Paris ;
from the home of Tennyson, Isle of Wight ;
from the Executive Mansion, Washington,
D. C. ; from James Russell Lowell : Oliver
Wendell Holmes and others.

The appropriate rendering of Dr. Coles'
following hymns by Prof. Bauman, organ-
ist, and Mr. Sauvage and the choir, added
solemnity to the occasion, and emphasis to
the many tributes to Dr. Coles's earnest
Christian life:

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"EVER MY LORD WITH THEE.

TUNE — "Bethany."
Ever, my Lord, with Thee,
Ever with Thee I

I IIP .null .ill rtrrnity
Thy face to see!
I count llii- I leaven to be
I ,<T, my l.nnl, with Thee!

- Ji-ru-alem,

All of pure gold,
Garnished with many a gem

Of worth untold ;
I only ask, to be
Ever, my Lord, with Thee,

Ever with Thee !

River of Life there flows

\ crystal clear ;
The Tree of Life there grows

For healing near ;
But this crowns all, to be
Ever, my Lord, with Thee,

Ever with Thee!

No curse is there, no night,

No grief, no fear;
Thy smile fills Heaven with light,

Dries every tear;
What rapture, then to be
Ever, my Lord, with Thee,

I \cr with Thee!

"ALL THE DAYS."
Original music by W. F. Sherwin.

From Thee, begetting sure conviction,
Sound out, O risen Lord ! always,

Those faithful words of valediction
"Lo! I am with you all the days."

RIFRAIN.
"Lo! I am with you all the days,"

All the days. All the days.
"Lo! I am with you all the days."

What things shall happen on the morrow,
Thou kimlK hidrst from our gaze:

But tellest us in joy or sorn>\\
"Lo! I am with you all the day-."

REFRAIN.

When round our head the tempest rages,
And sink our feet in miry ways ;

Thy voice comes floating down the ages
"Lo! I am with you all the day-"

REFRAIN.

O Thou who art our life and meetness,
Not death -.hall daunt us nor amaze,

Hearing those words of power and sweetness,
"Lo! I am with you all the days."

REFRAIN.

JESU DULCIS MEMORIA (BERNARD OF
CLAIRVAUX.)

TUNE — Emmanuel — Ludwig Von Beethoven
(Translation by Abraham Coles).

The memory of Jesus' Name

Is past expression sweet :
At each dear mention hearts aflame

With quicker pulses beat !

But sweet above all sweetest things

Creation can afford,
That sweetness which His presence brings,

The vision of the Lord.

Sweeter than His dear Name is naught ;

None worthier of laud,
Was ever sung, or heard, or thought.

Than Jesus, Son of God.

Thou hope, to those of contrite heart ;

To those who ask, how kind !
To those who seek, how good Thou art !

But what to those who find?

No heart is able to conceive.

Nor tongue, nor pen express ;
Who tries it only can believe

How choice that blessedness !

"HERE ARE PARTINGS AND PAINFUL
FAREWELLS."

TUNE — "The Su<cet By and By."

Here are partings and painful farewells
And the sundering of tenderest ties;

In that Heavenly Land where He dwells,
God shall wipe away tears from all eyes —

CHORUS.

"In the sweet by and by
We shall meet on that beautiful shore."

Here the pilgrim can scarcely discern
The reward for the tears that he sheds;

But the ransomed with songs shall return
With perpetual joy on their heads —

CHORUS.

"In the sweet by and by
We shall meet on that beautiful shore."

The interment was by the side of his
wife, in Willow Grove Cemetery, New
Brunswick, New Jersey. The grave is

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designated by a granite monolith bearing
a bronze medallion portrait of Dr. Coles.

This sketch would be incomplete with-
out some fuller allusion to his literary 'a-
bors, and to the marked traits of his char-
acter.

Soon after he settled in Newark, he be-
came a contributor to the "Newark Daily
Advertiser," and early showed an interest
in education, in a public library, in temper-
ance movements, and in all objects looking
to the welfare of society. Rarely attending
any public meetings, he gave expression to
his views in an occasional address, and in
the columns of the daily journals.

In poetry and prose, his literary taste
and learning soon came to be recognized,
and he had a local reputation long before he
was more generally known.* It was, per-
haps, his first translation of "Dies Irse"
(1847), that we here quote, that arrested
the attention of linguists and scholars
throughout the world. It was a difficult
task to undertake, as there were several
versifications ef it by authors of classical
note and learning. As he followed it, from
time to time, with sixteen other versions, it
was seen what opulence of resource was at
his command.

DIES IRAK.

Translation published March 17, 1847, (in the
Newark Daily Advertiser').

Day of wrath, that day of burning,
All shall melt, to ashes turning,
As foretold by seers discerning.

O what fear shall it engender

When the Judge shall come in splendor.

Strict to mark and just to render.

Trumpet scattering sounds of wonder,
Rending sepulchers asunder,
Shall resistless summons thunder.

*The catalogues of many of the libraries of
Europe, especially those of Oxford and Cam-
bridge, England, show the possession of one or
more of the published works of Dr. Abraham
Coles.

All aghast then Death shall shiver
And great Nature's frame shall quiver.
When the graves their dead deliver.

Book where every act's recorded,

All events all time afforded,

Shall be brought and dooms awarded.

When shall sit the Judge unerring,
He'll unfold all here occurring,
No just vengeance then deferring.

What shall I say that time pending?
Ask what Advocate's befriending
When the just man needs defending?

King almighty and all knowing,
Grace to signers freely showing
' Save me, Fount of good o'erflowing.

Think, O Jesus, for what reason

Thou endurest earth's spite and treason,

Nor me lose in that dread season.

Seeking me Thy worn feet hasted,
On the cross Thy soul death tasted,
Let such labor not be wasted.

Righteous Judge of retribution,
dram me perfect absolution
Ere that day of execution.

Culprit-like, I, heart all broken,

On my cheek shame's crimson token,

Plead the pardoning word be spoken.

Thou who Mary gav'st remission,
Heard'st the dying Thief's petition,
Cheer'st with hope my lost condition.

Though my prayers do nothing merit,
What is needful, Thou confer it,
Lest I endless fire inherit.

Mid the sheep a place decide me,
And from goats on left divide me,
Standing on the right beside Thee.

When th' accursed away are driven.

In eternal burnings given,

Call me with the bless'd to Heav'n.

I beseech Thee, prostrate lying,
Heart as ashes, contrite, sighing,
Care for me when I am dying.

On that awful day of wailing
Human destinies unveiling.
When man rising stands before Thee,
Spare the culprit ; God of Glory.

Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff, in his recent
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physician, Abraham Coles, has made of the
'Dies Ira;' seventeen versions, which show
a rare fertility and versatility, and illustrate
the possibilities of versification without al-
tering the sense." "In the eleventh stanza
of his first translation of 1847, he had an-
ticipated Irons, Peries, Dix and Mills.
* * Other rhymes are borrowed from
Dr. Colc-s."

His translations of various other Latin
hymns, as contained in his volume, "Latin
Hymns with Original Translations," will
ever be the admiration of scholars. "The
Evangel," and "The Light of the World.'
give the Gospel story of our Lord in verse,
with notes full of devotion and learning.
His great love to Christ was his crowning
excellence.

John G. Whittier says : "Dr. Coles is a
born hymn writer. He has left us, as a leg-
acy of inestimable worth, some of the
sweetest of Christian hymns. His 'All the
Days' and his 'Ever with Thee' are immor-
tal songs. It is better to have written them
than the stateliest of epics. No man living
or (lead has so rendered the text and the
spirit of the old and wonderful Latin
hymns."

While these studies show his profound
learning in the Greek and Latin languages,
it is only when we look to the studies of
his last years, in "A New Rendering of the
Hebrew Psalms into English Verse," that
we come to know of his knowledge of Ori-
ental languages : of the vast realms of schol-
arship he had explored. But his stately and
commanding prose has almost been obscur-
ed by his poetry. The marvel of all his books
is in their introductions and notes. Whole
folios of recondite learning are opened up
in modest foot-notes, and the reader knows
he is in company with one who has been
delving and digging in the richest mines of
unexplored knowledge. His sharp, quick
sentences of introduction, and the grasp
which he shows of his theme, are at once
an admiration and a surprise.

His style has individuality as much as

that of Dr. Johnson or of Thomas Carlyle.
One constantly sees how thoughts sublime
find expression in terse and stately senten-
ces, and how words are chosen such as
come out of the depths of inspiration and
genius. There is not conformity to the
style of any favorite author, or to the modes
of thought of any formal logician, but a
forging of weighty words, wrought out
from the depths of great inner feelings and
conceptions. Others will more fully ana-
lyze these mementoes of his greatness, but
we, as physicians, may well linger in admir-
ation, and rejoice that one of our own Soci-
ety should have thus adorned a literature
already rich in contributions from those
educated in medical science, and proficient
in medical art.

But the crown of all was his wonderful
character. He did everything with con-
scientious precision and thoroughness ; he
was always after the depth of things. How
he would sometimes work over the word-
ing of a line, and then over a note that
brought out its fullest meaning. So, too,
he worked in his profession.

His respectful bearing toward all had its
seat in a profound reverence. He was rev-
erent of humanity because of his intense
reverence for God and all His works. He
studied nature and the Bible and the inner
consciousness of the spiritual life with the
same majestic, adoring insight. He was not
religious by an effort. "I have," says Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "always consider-
ed it a great privilege to enjoy the friend-
ship of so pure and lofty a spirit ; a man
who seemed to breathe holiness as his na-
tive atmosphere, and to carry its influences
into his daily life."

Had he not been a poet, he would have
been painter, or musical composer, because
in no other way could his adoring enthus-
iasm have found symmetrical expression.

\Yhen he issued a book, its typographical
execution must be complete. He visited the
great picture galleries of Europe, and at
large expense selected the choicest speci-

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mens of ancient art to illustrate his themeo.
These gave expression to his character not
less than to his taste.

When he wrote hymns it was because the
inner music of his soul had to be set to met-
rical expression. He was a genius, but it
was chiefly character and life that flowed
out through his writings.

He became familiar with little children
easier than with all others, because in them
he saw more of nature, and more of faith,
hope and charity.

He believed in his profession, because
in it he realized the possibilities of high
science and applied art for the uses of hu-
manity, and so could be co-worker with
the Great Physician who went about doing
good. We cherish his memory because we
cherish skill, character, usefulness, and re-
joice in having such a model. Such lives
do not die, but live as incentives for those
of all the ages. Wre cannot reach his fame,
but we can imitate his devotion to knowl-
edge, his reverence for life and goodness,
his desire for usefulness, his holy faith,
his humble affection for the good, the beau-
tiful, the true.

The invaluable large painting that hangs
in the State House at Trenton, New Jer-
sey, has a very interesting history, as re-
corded in the following letter of March 29,
1897, addressed to the Hon. John W. Griggs,
LL.D., while Governor of New Jersey, by
Dr. J. A. Coles, in which he say? :

"I am the owner of the celebrated oil painting,
known as 'The Good Samaritan,' by our distin-
guished American artist Daniel Huntingdon. The
picture, with its frame, measures about nine feet
in width, by eleven feet in height. It was exe-
cuted by Daniel Huntington in his studio in Paris,
France, in the years 1852-3. in illustration of the
second great commandment of the Law, 'Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' Here, with
wonderful skill, is vividly portrayed the arrival
at the inn, and the respectful attention given to
the orders of 'The Good Samaritan.' Mr. Hunt-
ington informs me that while engaged on this
painting he was visited in his studio by Paul Dela-
foche, the eminent historical painter of France,
who took a deep interest in the progress of his

work, .and by friendly suggestions as to detail,
color, etc., rendered him much assistance, a cir-
cumstance which adds immensely to the value of
this picture, as it may be regarded as the joint
work of these two great master minds. After its
completion, requiring several months, it was af-
ter attracting much attention in Paris, sent to
this country, exhibited at the National Academy,
then on Broadway, and formed one of the chief
attractions at the Sanitary Fair Exhibition of
Paintings held in Fourteenth Street, New York
City, during the late civil war.

"Mr. Huntington, having learned that I con-
templated giving this picture through you to the
people of New Jersey, in memory of my father,
wrote to me a few weeks ago, suggesting that I
should first send the canvas to his studio, in New
York City, and leave it with him for a month, in
order that he might retouch and restore any in-
juries done to it by the hand of time. This I have
done and Mr. Huntington has not only gone over
the whole canvas, but has, at the suggestion and
request of friends, introduced a portrait of him-
self, as the host of the inn, a very valuable addi-
tion. I have, also, had the artistic and beautiful
frame relaid with the best of gold leaf.

"Upon receipt of word from you that as a gift,
the painting will be acceptable to the State I will,
as soon as practicable, at my own expense, send
it to Trenton, and have it hung in the place
deemed most suitable for its reception in the cap-
itol, a building associated with pleasant meetings
therein of my father, the late Abraham Coles,
M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., with his friends, some of
whom are still living, while the portraits of others
adorn the walls. It is with special pride I recall
the recorded words of the late Governor Haines,
and those of the late Henry Woodhull Green,
Chief Justice and Chancellor, who in referring to
the life and writings of Dr. Abraham Coles, af-
firm that 'to him the world owes a debt of grati-
tude for his labor and research, which redound to
the honor of our State.' Awaiting your reply, I
am with great respect, Yours sincerely,

T. A. COLES.

Governor Griggs' reply was as follows :

"State of New Jersey, Executive Department
Dr. J. Ackerman Coles :

"My Dear Sir : — I have the honor to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your esteemed favor of the
2gth inst, tending to the State of New Jersey, the
painting known as the "The Good Samaritan." I
assure you nothing would delight me more than
to accept at your hands such a valuable gift on
behalf of the people of the State. The picture
will be accorded the best hanging that can be se-

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••ay that y>ur genero itj .mil (.'noilness to your

nf tho highest appre-

i-i;ilii.ii i. ii liehalf of th< people, and when the pic-
tun -hull have l» •' K rei ' ived, I hope to express to
>oii 111 a mon fnrin:.! way, tile thanks and grati-
nide ,,i ilivc for your generous donation.

nvenience to for-
ward tin picture, it will In- received and cared for
with all the consideration it deserves.
sincerely

"JOHN \V. GKIGC.S, Governor."

A spinal in tla- "\i-\v York Sun," dated
Trcniiiii. linn- ii. iS<>7, said: "David
Ilnntington'^ painting, 'The Good Samari-
tan.' wa- removed to the t'apitol this morn-
"llarper'- \\'eekly" referred to New
|cr-(\ as getting "an admirable painting in
memory of a good and distinguished citi
zen."

From tile librarian, Mr. Ainsworth
Ran.l Spofford, LL.D., Dr. J. A. Coles
received the following letter:

"I.ihrary of Congress. Washington, D. C.
"l>r;ir Sir: — I have your much esteemed favor,
proffering as a gift a life size bronze bust of
Washington by lloudon. to be preserved in the
new library building in memory of your father.
This generous offer is fully appreciated and will
he communicated to the joint committee of both
houses of Congress on the Library when organ-
ized Meanwhile. I am authorized to receive the
gift to be assigned an honorable and appropri-
ate place in the new building of the Library of
Congress now completed. Permit me to express
my high sense of the literary value of Dr. Abra-
ham Coles' fine translations of Latin mediaeval
hymns and other works "

"To the Hall of Marble Statuary in the
Metropolitan Mu-eum of Art. \e\v York."
the 'New York Evangelist" say-:

"Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, of Newark, who has
added so largely to the art treasures of his na-
tive city, has made a couple of valuable memorial
giftv One gift is the f:,mm^ statue, known as
'The Promised I .ami.' executed in Carrara marble

I the celebrated American sculptor. Franklin
Simmons, at Rome. Italy, in 1874. A beautiful
ideal life-size female figure, gracefully robed, is
designed to represent the earnest longing of the
spirit for The Promised Laud.' The Better Coun-
try.' 'The Celestial City of Zion.' Upon the plinth
of the statue, which rests upon an elegantly pan-

eled octagonal pedestal of dark Spanish marble
are inscribed four lines of the mediaeval Latin
hymn 't'rbs Coelestis Sion' by St. Bernard of
Cluny, with its translation by the late Dr. Abra-
ham Coles; the hymn and the translation being
well known to scholars throughout the literary
world. Daniel Huntington. the second Vice-Presi-
dent of the Museum and Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Sculpture, in recommending its accept-
ance as a gift by the board of trustees, wrote 'I
am greatly pleased with the statue.' It has a re-
fined and spiritual character, as well as artistic
grace and beauty.'

"The other memorial gift is a Carrara marble-
copy by P. Barzanto of Florence, Italy, of the an-
tique statue 'Venus de Medici,' it being one of the
very few signed copies ever executed in marble,
other copies possessed by museums of art being
plaster casts. The original statue, it will be re-
membered, was found in the seventeenth century,
and was taken to Rome, and deposited in the Me-
dici Palace, whence it took its name. About the
year 1680 it was carried by order of Cosmo III to
Florence. In 1/96 Napoleon Bonaparte sent it,
with other works of art to France, and had it
placed in the Louvre at Paris. Here it remained
until 1815, when it was returned to Italy, and is
now the chief treasure in the Tribune of the Uf-
fizi gallery at Florence. It is of Parian marble,
and was executed by Cleomenes, the Athenian,
the son of Apollodorus, who flourished between
200 to 150 B. C. From its exquisite proportions
and perfection of contour, it has become the most
celebrated standard of female form extant. The
following rules obtained by measurements of
Greek statues are adopted by sculptors. "First —
As to height, tastes differ, but the Venus de Med-
ici is about five feet and five inches in height.
This is held by many sculptors and artists to be
the most admirable stature for a woman. For a
woman of this height, one hundred and thirty-
eight pounds is the proper weight, and if she be
well formed she can stand another ten pounds
without greatly showing it. When her arms are
extended, she should measure from tip of middle
finger to tip of middle finger just five feet and'
five inches, exactly her own height. The length
of her hand should be just a tenth of that, and her
foot just .a seventh, and the diameter of her chest
a fifth. From her thighs to the ground she should
measure just what she measures from the thighs
to the top of the head. The knee should come ex-
actly midway between the thigh and the heel. The
diMance from the elbow to the middle finger
should be the same as the distance from the el-
bow to the middle of the chest. From the top of
the head to the chin should be just the length of
the foot, and there should be the same distance

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between the chin and the armpits. The waist
measures twenty-four inches, and the bust thirty
four inches, if measured under the arms, and
forty-three if over them. The upper arm should
measure thirteen inches and the wrist six. The
calf of the leg should measure fourteen and one-
half inches, the thigh twenty-five and the ankle
eight. There is another system of measurements
which says that the distance twice around the
thumb, should go once around the wrist ; twice
around the wrist once around the throat ; twice
around the throat, once around the waist, and so
on.

"As for coloring and shape, here is the code
laid down by the Arabs, who say that a woman
should have these things : black hair, eyebrows,
lashes and pupils ; white skin, teeth, and globe of
the eye; red tongue, lips and cheeks; round
head, neck, arms, ankles and waist; long back,
fingers, arms and limbs ; large forehead, eyes and
lips ; narrow eyebrows, nose and feet ; small ears,
bust and hands."

The copy, with its marble pedestal like
the one owned by the Duke of Devonshire,
at Chatsworth, England, is pure white with-
out flaw or blemish and is an invaluable ad-
dition to the Museum of Art. Soon after
its proffer to the Museum, General Louis
P. D. Cesnola, secretary and director, wrote
to Dr. Coles :

"I have the honor to inform you that upon the
recommendation of the committee on sculpture,
the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
have accepted your gift, and have instructed their
executive committee to convey to you an expres-
sion of their thanks for your generosity. In do-
ing so I may be permitted to add that their thanks
will be constantly hereafter repeated by the people
to whose enjoyment and instruction the Museum
of Art is devoted, and to which your gift is a
valuable contribution. With high regards, I re-
main, very sincerely yours."

In appreciation of these gifts Dr. Coles
was elected a Fellow of The Metropolitan
Museum of Art.

By means of the gift of the shares of
stock of the Newark Library Association
owned by Dr. Abraham Coles, and given in
his memory by his son, the Mew Jersey
Historical Society secured control and own-
ership of its present handsome brick and

>t<ino building on Park street, Newark, New
jersey.

As regards "The Microcosm," from which
work we give a few extracts, "The Newark
Daily Advertiser" says:

"The Microcosm is the only book of the kind
in the language, and is well deserving a place in
every library, and might, we think, moreover, be
introluced with advantage into all schools where
physiology is taught as an adjunct, if nothing else,
to stimulate interest, and relieve the dryness of
ordinary text books. In lines of flowing and easy
verse, the author sets forth with a completeness
certainly remarkable, and with great power and
beauty, the incomparable marvels of structure and
function of the human body."

MAN SUPREME.

O thou, made up of every creature's best,
The summing up and monarch of the rest !
Thy high-raised cranium, — vaulted to contain
The big and billowy and powerful brain.
While that a scanty thimbleful, no more,
Belongs to such as swim or creep or soar ;
Thy form columnar, sky-ward looking face,*
Majestic mien, intelligence and grace,
Thy foot's firm tread, and gesture of thy hand
Proclaim thee ruler, destined to command.
A little lower than the angels made.
Dominion, glory, worship on thee laid,
I praise not thee, but honor and applaud
The handiwork and masterpiece of God.
Fearful and wonderful, and all divine.
Where two worlds mingle, and two lives com-
bine—

A dual body, and a dual soul,
Touching eternity at either pole —
The tides of being, circling swift or slow,
'Tween mystic banks that ever overflow.
Exist not severed from the Fountain-head.
But whence they rise, eternally are fed :
Our springs are all in God; from Him we drink,
Live, move, and have our being, feel and think.

FLESH GARMENT— SKIN. ITS MORAL

CHARACTER.

How beautiful, and delicate, and fresh,
Appear the Soul's Habiliments of Flesh !
How closely fitting, easy yet, and broad,
Each Tissue woven in the loom of God !
Compared with that magnificence of dress,
Wherewith is clothed the Spirit's nakedness,

*"Pronaque cum spectant animalia cxtera terram,
Os homini sublime dedit : coelumque videre
Jussit. et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus." — Ovid.

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O how contemptible and mean a thing.
The purple and fine linen of :i king!
1 1,,. |,,,ti, ire turi oi th< dky SKIN,
Outside of all, and covering all within,
\Viih what a marvellous and matchless grace,
Is it disposed and moulded to each place;
Bounding and beautifying brow and breast,
A crowning loveliness to all the rest!
Endowed with wondri u properties of soul
I hat interpenetrate and till tin whole —
A. raiment, moral, maidenly and white,
Shame. 1 at ea. h breach of decency and right,
When- dwells a charm above the charms of sense,
Suggestive of the soul's lost innocence.

PATHOGNOMY.

\Vlm ha-, not seen that Feeling, born of flame.
Crimson tin- check at mention of a name?
The rapturous touch of some divine surprise

;i ion of celestial dyes;
When ban, I h ped hands, and lips to lips were

pressed,
And the heart's sei ret was at once confessed?

VOLUNTARY MUSCLES.

The subject MUSCLES — *girded to fulfil
The lightning mandates of the sovereign Will —
Th' abounding means of motion, wherein lurk
Man's infinite capacity for work;
By which, as taste or restless nature bids,
i.-ars the Parthenon or Pyramids;
i lieven , ,; - of the plastic art.

Fulfils th' ambitious purpose of his heart;

i grace outrivaling his own.
Charm I eyes — the poetry of stone;

- mbols liis faith, as in Cathedrals — vast
Religious petrifactions of the Past:

e land with cities; makes all seas
White with the sails of countless argosies;
1'" ' ear back with all her waves,

And from her haughty sw,ay a kingdom saves;
Tunnels hirh mountains, Erebus unbars,
And through it rolls the thunder of his cars;
With stalwart arm, defends down-trodden right,
And, like a whirlwind, sweeps the field of fight;
And when, at la-;, the war is nvide to cease,

*Some authors reckon the number of Muscles
in the Human P.ody as high as 527. They have
been divided into 1'nlnntary (forming the red
flesh, or the main bulk of the body) ; Involuntary,
such as the heart, fleshy fibres of the stomach.
etc.; and Mixed, such as the muscles of respira-
tion, etc. Each Muscle is made up of an indefi-
nite number of fibres, which may he considered as
so many muscles in miniature, along which stream
the currents of the Will Vet with all thi- com-
plex apparatus everything is in har-

On firm foundations stablishes a peace;

Then barren wastes with nodding harvests sows,

And makes the desert blossom as the rose.

MUSCULAR DYNAMICS — DIRECTING
POWER WHERE?

Bundles of fleshy fibres without end,
Along the bony Skeleton extend
In thousand-fold directions from fixed points
To act their several parts upon the Joints ;
Adjustments nice of means to ends we trace,
With each dynamic filament in place ;
But where's the Hand that grasps the million

reins
Directs and guides them, quickens or restrains?

See the musician, at his fingers' call,
All sweet sounds scatter, fast as rain-drops fall ;
With flying touch, he weaves the web of song.
Rhythmic as rapid, intricate as long.
Whence this precision, delicacy and ease?
And where's the Master that defines the keys?

The many-jointed Spine, with link and lock
To make it flexible while secure from shock,
Is pierced throughout, in order to contain
The downward prolongation of the brain ;
From which, by double roots, the NERVES* arise —
One Feeling gives, one Motive Power supplies ;
In opposite directions, side by side,
With mighty swiftness there two currents glide —
Winged, head and heel, the Mercuries of Sensef
Mount to the regions of Intelligence ;

*For the benefit of the general reader, presum-
ably not familiar with anatomical details, we may
state that there are 43 pairs of nerves in all, i. e.
12 Cranial or Encephalic and 31 Spinal. The first
have only one root in the brain, whilst the latter
arise by two roots from the anterior and posterior
halves of the spinal marrow, but unite immediate-
ly afterwards to form one nerve. Division of the
anterior root causes loss of motion — of the pos-
terior the loss of sensation. The first transmit vo-
litions from the brain, the latter sensitive impres-
sions to the brain.

•j-Helmholtz has instituted experiments to de-
termine the rapidity of transmission of the ner-
vous actions. For sensation the rate of movement
assigned is one hundred and eighty to three hun-
dred feet per second. Muscular contraction, or
shortening of the muscular fibre, takes place, at
times, with extreme velocity; a single thrill, in
the letter R.. can be pronounced in the l-3O,oooth
part of a minute. There are insects whose wings
strike the air thousands of times in a minute. The
force of contraction (Myodynamis) is most re-
markable in some of these. In birds, the absolute
power in proportion to the weight of the body is
as 10.000 to i.

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Instant as light, the nuncios of the throne
Command the Muscles that command the Bone.

Each morning after slumber, brave and fresh,
The Moving Army of the Crimson Flesh,
From fields of former conquests, marching comes
To the grand beating of unnumbered drums — §
Each martial Fibre pushing to the van
To make "I will" the equal of "I can" ;
Testing the possibilities of power
In deeds of daring suited to the hour;
Doing its utmost to build up the health
And glory of the inner Commonwealth.

Levers and fulcra everywhere we find.
But where's the great Archimedean Mind,
That on some POU STO,* outside and above,
Plants its firm foot this living world to move?

CRANIUM— SOUL'S FIRMAMENT— BRAIN

Find it we shall, if anywhere we can,
Doubtless, in that high Capitol of man,
Whose Spheric Walls, concentric to the cope,
Were built to match the nature of his Hope.
What seems the low vault of a narrow tomb,
Is the Soul's sky, where it has ample room;
As apt through this, its crystalline, to pass,
As though it were diaphanous as glass.
When Sense is dark, it is not dark, but light.
Itself a sun, that banishes the night,
Shedding a morning, beauteous to see,
On the horizon of Eternity.
Strange, a frail link and manacle of BRAIN
So long below suffices to detain
A principle, so radiant and high,
So restless, strong, and fitted for the sky.

HEARING— POWERS OF SOUND— MUSIC
OF NATURE.

Within a bony labyrinthean cave,
Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,
This sibyl, sweet, and mystic Sense is found.
Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.
Viewless and numberless, these everywhere
Wake to the finest tremble of the air ;
Now from some mountain height are heard to

call;

Now from the bottom of some waterfall ;
Now faint and far, now louder and more near,
With varying cadence musical and clear ;
Heard in the brooklet murmuring o'er the lea ;
Heard in the roar of the resounding sea ;
Heard in the thunder rolling through the sky ;
Heard in the little insect chirping nigh ;

§The heart and arteries.

*Archimedes used to say, "Give a place where
I may stand (dos pou sto) and I can move the
world."

The winds of winter wailing through the woods;

The mighty laughter of the vernal floods;

The rain-drops' showery dance and rhythmic

beat,

With twinkling of innumerable feet;
Pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks;
Lowing of herds, and bleating of the flocks;
The tender nightingale's melodious grief;
The sky-lark's warbled rapture of belief —
Arrow of praise, direct from Nature's quiver,
Sent duly up to the Almighty Giver.

WOMAN— SEX— UNITY IN DIFFERENCE.

O loving Woman, man's fulfillment sweet,
Completing him not otherwise complete!
How void and useless the sad remnant left
Were he of her, his nobler part bereft!
Of her who bears the sacred name of Wife,
The joy and crown and glory of his life,
The Mother of his Children, whereby he
Shall live in far off epochs yet to be.
Conjoined but not confounded, side by side
Lying so closely nothing can divide;
A dual self, a plural unit, twain,
Except in sex, to be no more again;
Except in Sex — for sex can nought efface,
Fixed as the granite mountain on its base —
But not for this less one, away to take
This sweet distinction were to mar not make.
Dearer for difference in this respect,
As means of rounding mutual defect.
Woman and Man all social needs include ;
Earth filled with men were still a solitude.
In vain the birds would sing, in vain rejoice,
Without the music of her sweeter voice.
In vain the stars would shine, 'twere dark the

while

Without the light of her superior smile.
To blot from earth's vocabularies one
Of all her names were to blot out the sun.

LOVE OF THE SEXES— ENDS ANSWERED

O wondrous Hour, supremest hour of fate,
When first the Soul discerns its proper Mate,
By inward voices known as its elect —
Distanced by love, and infinite respect,
Fairer than fairest, shining from afar,
Throned in the heights, a bright particular star
The glory of the firmament, the evening sky
Glad with the lustre of her beaming eye.
Young Love, First Love, Love, haply, at First

Sight.

Smites like the lightning, dazzles like the light;
Chance meeting eyes shoot forth contagious

flame,

Sending the hot blood wildly through the frame.
By strange enchantment violently strook,

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The t"t;il being rushes with a lix>k;
A beauty never seen before, except some gleams
I'lirpliiiK the atmosphere of blissful dreams,
Wakens rare raptures and sensations IH-W,

..ul and body thrilling through and through.
Says age Experience, sighing o'er the past,
'] h.'M- dear illusions will not always last ;
I ,,[ beauts fades and disappointment clings
In the n-ality of human things.
It may be so — it may be, lover's sight
Surveying all things by love's purple light,
Ser., not the faults possession shall disclose,
Nor the sharp thorn concealed beneath the rose.
But if thus Nature her great ends attain
The pomps of fancy dazzle not in vain.
The pleasing falsehood of perfection flits,
But not the Love, that in contentment sits
Among the Dear Ones of its happy Home,
Blest with sweet foretastes of the Heaven to

come.

Deciduous charms of face unmissed depart,
\\lnle bloom the fadeless beauties of the heart;
Inward conformity, and gradual growth

•,.>ral likeness, tightening bonds of both,
. t the marriage, which was but begun

that day they were pronounced one.

TRUE LOVE.

Let Love but enter, it converts the churl,
And makes the miser lavish as an earl;

-trict walls of his prison, giving way,
Fall outward and let in the light of day;
!'. ed from l>:ise captivity to pelf.

ipwanK soars into a nobler self;
And hands, that once did nought but clutch and

hoard
\*.m emulate the bounty of the Lord;

up a mirror, that reflects the face
ii.' !im whose heart is love and man-ward grace.

I >n the afternoon of July 5, 1897, Mayor
Seymour presiding. there was unveiled in
Washington Park, Newark, New Jersey,
tin' heroic size bnni/e portrait bust of Dr.
\liraham Coles, the work of the peerless
sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward. The
|icdcMal consists of a monolith of imperial
graniir. which has for its base a granite
boulder weighing about seven tons, which
was obtained for the purpose at much ex-
pense and trouble from near the landing
place of the Pilgrim Father-, at Plymouth.
Massachusetts. The whole is enclosed h<-
monoliths ,,f (Juincy granite, fourteen feet
long, bolted into corner posts from near the

Sea of Tiberias, Galilee, Palestine, obtain-
ed through the courtesy and agency of the
Rev. Edwin T. Wallace, A. M., our consul
at Jerusalem. On the front face of the ped-
estal, cast in bronze, is the following hymn
by Dr. Coles : —

THE ROCK OF AGES.

Isaiah xxvi — 4.
A NATIONAL SONG OF PRAISE.

Let us to Jehovah raise
Glad and grateful songs of praise.
Let the people with one voice
In the Lord their God rejoice!
For His mercy standeth fast
And from age to age doth last.

He across untraversed seas
Guided first the Genoese,
Here prepared a dwelling place
For a freedom loving race ;
For His mercy standeth fast
And from age to age doth last.

Filled the land the red man trod
With the worshipers of God ;
When oppression forged the chain
Nerved their hands to rend in twain.
For His mercy standeth fast
And from age to age dost last.

Gave them courage to declare
What to do and what to dare;
Made them victors over wrong
In the battle with the strong.
For His mercy standeth fast
And from age to age doth last.

'Midst the terror of the fight,
Kept them steadfast in the right;
Taught their statesmen how to plan
To conserve the Rights of man.
For His mercy standeth fast
And from age to age doth last.

Needful skill and wisdom lent
To establish Government.
Laid foundations resting still
On the granite of His will.
For His mercy standeth fast
And from age to age doth last.

Wiped the scandal and the sin
From the color of the skin ;
Now o'er all, from sea to sea
Floats the Banner of the Free.
For His mercy standeth fast
And from age to age doth last.

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ion whi ha- put great thought into immortal
verse, but because of a single work in which he
has sung, with genuine poetic genius, of the
organs and functions of the human body.

"'Man tin- Microcosm' is a perilous theme for
a poet. It awakens the scientific rather than the
poetic faculty. Nothing of the kind had appeared
before in our speech. Armstrong's 'I he Art of

I'M M-rviiiK Health,' published over one hundred
and fifty year.-, ago, can hardly be called an excep-
tion. Only one with the daring of Lucretius and
tin- genius of Pope, both of whom, in many re-

pects, the Doctor resembled, could so set scien-
tific and philosophic facts as to make them sen-
sitive 10 the breath of the muse. Usually scien-
tific accuracy i the death of poetry. Darwin
laments that he, who in the beginning of his
ihe greatest pleasure in Shakes-
peare, in later years lost all relish for the great
dramatist. I hi the other hand a glowing imagina-
tion is apt to wing its flight beyond the sphere
of proven facts which accurate science demands.
] i poem, which is an address Dr. Coles
delivered while President of the Medical Society
of the State of New Jersey, at its centennial meet-
ing, illumes the theme of a learned profession
with the sacred -peech of Polyhymnia. It at
once commanded the attention and commenda-
tion of both physicians and artists, and from the
time of its delivery, January 24, 1866, its author
has been known as the 'Poet-Physician.' This
characterization, however, does not do him jus-
tice. We might with equal inaccuracy speak of
David as the 'Warrior-Psalmist,' because the
divine bard wa- a soldier and somtimes sang of
war.

' 'The Microcosm' is but one of the many prod-
ucts of Dr. Coles' lyre, and the spirit that breathes
here, as in them all, is not anatomy, but divinity.
Correct as is his science, this is the spirit that
pervades his song:

'For such as this did actually enshrine
Thy gracious Godhead once, when Thou didst make
Thyself Incarnate, for my sinful sake.
Thou who hast done so very much for me,

0 let me do some humble thing for Thee!

1 would to every organ give a tongue,
That Thy hish praises may be fitly sung;
Appropriate ministries assign to each.
The least made vocal, eloquent to teach.'

"Though the learning is that of the physician,
the language and the spirit are those of a seraph.
We must place our author among the sacred
poets. We cannot pause to consider at length
the perplexing question: What is sacred poetry?
We are among those who believe in the sanctity
of the art, altogether from the theme in which
it is employed. It is the voice of the soul's in-
nermost life, expressing itself in form of creative

speech, which kindles the feeling while it carries
the thought. To turn such a gift to unholy uses
is like turning the language of prayer into pro-
fanity. But in order to fix our author's place in
the sacred choir, we accept the common thought
that sacred poetry is that which treats of sacred
things.

"It may be epic as in Job and Milton, or dra-
matic, as in the Song of Solomon and Bach's
'Passion,' or lyric as in all the Psalms and hymns.
The most copious of our sacred poetry is the
lyric. It is distinguished from others not by its
metrical forms, nor altogether by the material it
fashions, but by its personal thought or passion
and its easy adaptation to song. There are four
distinct grades of lyric poetry by which the rank
of the poet is determined. The first is what we
may call the natural, and is characterized by the
outburst of impassioned personal experience; the
.-ccond is artistic, and is distinguished by the
exquisite finish of its structure; the third is
didactic, and is differentiated by its aim, which
is to teach certain truths and facts. There are
doubtless poets of high merit in this class, but its
dominant motive is sure to give it the air of the
school-room, and these lyrics are often only
doctrine in rhyme. The fourth is the liturgical.
It is arranged for a service already prepared,
and is set to music already composed. It is
usually characterized by poverty of ideas, weari-
some repetitions and a fatal lack of passion.

"The foremost poet of the natural order is
David, the creator of the Hebrew lyric, who, at
the very beginning, gave to the world the very
finest specimens of the art. There is in all his
songs a spontaneous outpouring of the passion
of the moment. Every creation only images the
soul of the poet, and his utterance is an elegy
or an idyl, according as he is grave or gay. To
this class belong, also, many of the old Latin
hymns, as those of Thomas of Celano, Bernard of
Clairvaux and Francis Xavier. They utter the
soul's innermost consciousness. Measured by this
standard, Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley are
highest in the first rank of English hymnists.
The doctrines of saving truth had become verities
in their experiences ; and they poured them out
in rushing torrents of song. Their hymns are
their own souls' biography.

"Dr. Coles has written more than fifty original
poems, many of which merit a place high in the
first class of lyrics. Some of them have the
intuition, the passion, the imagery which remind
us of Cowper. In a poem entitled 'Prayer in
Affliction,' he describes himself as bowed in sor-
row in his home, made desolate by the death of
his wife. But in his grief his faith discovers the
promise of good out of ill. Then he cries :

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'O that my smitten heart may gush

Melodious praise— like as when o'er
Aeolian harp strings wild winds rush

And all abroad, sad music pour,
So sweet. Heaven's minstrelsy might hush

Brief time to listen, for I know
The Hand that doth my comforts crush.

Builds bliss upon the base of woe.'

"The whole poem is wondrously suggestive of
the genius of him who wrote the immortal
'My Mother.'

"Some of his hymns throb with a spirit so akin
to that of the matchless Wesley that we could
readily believe they came from the Methodist'^
pen. Such is the following:

'Upon His bosom thus to rest,
I cannot ask to be more blest;
To know my sins are all forgiven
For Jesus' sake, O, this is Eleaven.
While I love Him and He loves me,
I care no other Heaven to see;
And if there be some higher bliss,
I am content while I have this.'

"But the Doctor did not devote his strength to
the product of original hymns. He deliberately
chose to turn masterpieces of ancient tongues
into English verse. Accordingly we are compell-
ed to rank him in the second order of lyrists.
He is 'a poet of culture' whose aim is perfect,
artistic expression. What determined his choice
was partly his scholarship, partly his intensely
spiritual nature, and partly the elegant refinement
in which he was born and lived. His learning
was varied and accurate. He was a recognized
authority in his profession, an accomplished
linguist, a master of the classic tongues and a
critical writer on the profoundest theological
themes. The vastness of his learning gave him
Mich ample material for his verse that his poetif
passion made no imperious call for this invention
of the intuitive faculty. We cannot think of
him as we do of Burns, walking out under the
stars, writhing in pain for some adequate form
in which to embody the tumultuous passion he
must express. He had but to lift his eyes, and
select from his calm wide vision the form he
needed. Had he been an unlettered peasant, the
poetic gift would probably have travailed in
birth of song, which would have come forth in
varied and original imagery. His poems would
have shouted and danced like the Psalms of the
Maccabees. But wealth of advantage is often-
times poverty of invention. As it was, his imagin-
ation was constructive rather than creative. Its
images are more remarkable for their exquisite
finish than for the original boldness of their
conception. It was a fortunate thing for the
world, and probably for the fame of our author,
that he devoted his superb gift to rendering the
best of the Hebrew and classic lyric* into Eng-

lish verse. He is not alone among the seraphs
who have made the attempt, hut is conspicuous
in the goodly company as the recognized chief.
Others have copied the ancient masterpieces with
wonderful accuracy, but in most instances have
failed to reproduce that indescribable charm that
gives to a poem its chief value. The spirit that
breathes cannot be made to order. It must be
born again. Otherwise the poem is a corpse.
Dr. Coles has not used his art to exhume mum-
mies. In his verse we have the living voices
of the old-time singers.

"As Corot caught the varying movement of the
trembling foliage in the deepening twilight, and
M> placed it on his canvas that one can almost
see the shadows lengthening and hear the rustling
of the leaves, so our poet has reproduced the very
NOul of the Hebrew and Latin verses. They are
not versified translations — they are regenerations.
They are not wrought from without, but from
within. Hence they retain that inestimable some-
thing that gives to a poem its immortality. As a
single illustration we name his 'Dies Irae,'
eighteen versions of which come from the strings
of his restless lyre. This sublimest masterpiece
of sacred Latin poetry and noblest Judgment
hymn of all languages has, through many ages,
been inviting gifted tongues to voice its majestic
solemnities in English speech. More than thirty
have had the temerity to respond. Among them
are Earl Roscommon, Sir Walter Scott, Lord
Macaulay. Archbishop Trench and General Dix,
Mime of whom have given renditions of consider-
able merit. But among them all. Dr. Coles wears
the greenest laurels. Competent critics like Dr.
Philip Schaff and John G. Whittier unite in
affirming that no man dead or living has succeed-
ed so well in rendering the text and spirit of
the wonderful hymn. The doctor's baton has
made our speech throb with the ancient rhythm
and reproduced in astonishing degree the char-
acteristic features of the original.

"Here are its artless simplicity, its impassioned
solemnity, its trumpet-like cadences which appall
the soul with woeful terrors ; its triple rhyme
which 'beats the breast like a hammer,' and
gives it an awful music of its own. making the
heart shudder with dread apprehension. And in
all this quivering of judgment-terror there
breathes the intense Christian spirit of the
original, which finds strongest utterance in the
appeal :

'Jesus kind, do not refuse me!
O remember Thou didst choose me!
Lest Thou on that day shalt lose me .
Seeking me Thy tired feet bore Thee ,
Cruel nails for my sake tore Thee,
Let all fail not I implore Thee.'

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"With equal .skill lie lias put m English verse,
hymn tn. in I homa- of Celano, I'ortunatus, St.
Bernard of Chun. St. Hernard of Clairvaux, and
others. Ti.mViri v, ith many selections from the
Greek and Latin clas i<- It v i- natural for one
with poi ' pi piritual life to turn with

pecial I- d tl • fountains of sacred song

that spring from the Hebrew Psalter. There
rather ilnn it I lelicon the voice of his muse
was licanl. IV believed that til.- life of the past
was better expn -'"I and preserved iu its song
than i:i it* history — that the inspiration of the
Psalm, was not merely poetic, but really and
truly divine. He also bi-lieved that the much
praised antiphonal parallelism, which Herder
de cribes as 'that language of the heart which
has never said all, but ever has something more to
ay,1 is not adapted to the Saxon genius or knowl-
edge. If then while he translates the Hebrew
into English, he also translates the ancient anti-
phonal into modern meter, he brings the divine
soul of the p-.alm in living presence before us.
The correi-tne-s of his view has been often dem-
on [rated Clement Marot's metrical version of
the Psalnis pro\ed to be a potent factor in the
French Reformation. There are few things that
have told so mightily on the Scotch character as
Rouse's version. It is asserted that in the time
of the Reformation, psalm singers and heretics
Imo-t identical term?. It is an interest-
ing fact, if it be true as stated, that such was
the \alne our Puritan forefathers placed on
Psalms in meter, that this was the title of the
first hook printed in New England.
"The Church, however, has in large measure

' '1 the use of metrical psalms in public wor-
ship This is due partly to the evolution of the
English hymn, under the inspiration of Watts and
his successors; partly to the vitiated taste occa-
sioned by the use of jingling ditties, and partly to
the poor quality of man] of the nu'terized psalms
which are in reality only mechanical paraphrases.
\\Y believe that if Dr. Coles' thought can only

'lequately realized, if accurate translation can
be wedded to genuine poetry and -.et to fitting

music, it will be < I n to the Church, which

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choral features of its service. We will not af-
firm that in his \ersion of the Psalms he has
in every insta Red either the critic's eye

or the Christian's heart Even the wings of
Jove's bird sometimes ;;rew weary. The peerle<-
Milton often stumbled in his meter. Are David's
own Psalms equal' But the doctor has given
us a noble volume, which aside from the other
products of his pen. will place his name on the
walls of 'the immortals' \r.l it" p, ,i!m -'tiging

r r again becomes general in the home and
in the Church, the rich collection will abide as
a most helpful interpreter of the heavenly mean-
ings of the Hebrew songs.

"We can barely speak of one other work which
this poet lived to complete — the rendering of the
< iospel in verse. To some souls the whole Chris-
tian life is a poem — the Gospel is music itself,
but he is a brave man who attempts to sing it
all. Samuel Wesley, the father of John and
Charles, made the daring effort to versify the
Gospel. It was both a literary and financial fail-
ure. With what success Dr. Coles has made a
similar effort, it remains for the coming genera-
tions to declare. In the meanwhile, we listen to
the judgment of the Right Honorable John Bright
of England, who says : 'When I began your
volume I thought you had attempted to gild
the refined gold and would fail; as I proceeded
in my reading, that idea gradually disappeared,
and I discovered you had brought the refined
gold together in a manner convenient and useful,
and deeply interesting. I have read the volume
with all its notes, many of which seem to me of
great value. I could envy you the learning and
the industry that have enabled you to produce
this remarkable work. I hope it may have read-
ers in all countries where our language is spoken.'

"One who consecrates his genius to echoing
the thought and spirit of the peerless intellects
of the past is not apt to command popular af-
fection. There are few Platos and Boswells
whose names appear on the scroll of immortality.
But if ever that ambition entered the heart of
our author, he can sleep tranquilly on the pillow
of his deathless work. His hymns have been
placed in many hymnals. His Greek and Latin
translations are ranked by critics the very fore-
most. His Psalms and Gospels occupy an honor-
ed place in every great library of Europe and
America.

"As the years separate us wider and ever wider
from those great productive periods of sacred
song, which made glad the ages past, more and
more will the coming generation feel the need of
Dr. Abraham Coles' rich echoes."

After the benediction by the Rev. Dr. T~).
J. Yerkes, there was more music. In the
words of the "New York Observer" : The
whole occasion was a delightful tribute of
honor to the memory of a noble man."

On September 5th, 1895. was received at
the Mayor's office the following letter from
T. Ackerman Coles:

BRONZE GROUP BY C. B. IVES. IN LINCOLN PARK.
NEWARK. NEW JERSEY.

AN INCIDENT AT THE CLOSE OF THE INDIAN WAR OF 1764.
AS TOLD BY THE HISTORIAN FRANCIS PARKMAN

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To the Honorable Julius A. Lebkuecher, Mayor
of the City of Newark :

My Dear Sir — As a gift to Newark, my native
city, in whose educational, scientific and religious
advancement my father, the late Dr. Abraham
Coles, always took a deep and active interest, I
have, through the agency of Messrs. Sypher & Co.,
of New York City, bought one of the most char-
acteristic and beautiful groups in real bronze to
be seen in this country or in Europe. It con-
sists of three figures — an American Indian, his
wife and her mother, each life size. The ped-
estal is of rare dark Italian marble. The whole was
executed at Rome, Italy, in 1886, by the distin-
guished American sculptor, the late C. B. Ives,
and is illustrative of the following facts, related
by Parkman and other authorities :

After Colonel Bouquet had, in the Fall of 1764,
compelled the Indian tribes to sue for peace, he
demanded the delivery, at Fort Pitt, of all cap-
tives in their possession. "Among those brought
in for surrender," says Parkman. "were young
women who had become partners of Indian hus-
bands, and who now were led reluctantly into the
presence of parents or relatives, whose images
were almost blotted from their memory. They
stood agitated and bewildered : the revival of
old affections and the rush of dormant memories,
painfully contending with more recent attach-
ments; while their Indian lords looked on, scarce-
ly less moved than they, yet hardening themselves
with savage stoicism, and standing in the midst
of their enemies imperturbable as statues of
bronze. Of the women, who were compelled to
return with their children to the settlements,
some, subsequently, made their escape, eagerly
hastening back to their warrior husbands, whose
kindness before, as well as at the time of the
surrender, had proved to them the sincerity of
their affection."

In our artist's group, the mother discovers the
wife of the Indian to be her daughter, who was
carried off in early childhood. She, however,
fails in her endeavor to obtain from her some
sign of recognition. It was on this occasion that
Bouquet, observing her distress, is said to have
suggested that she should sing one of the songs
she used to sing to her when a child. She did
so — then, with a sudden start, followed by a pas-
sionate flood of tears, the long-lost daughter
threw herself into her mother's arms.

In order that his work might be accurate and
distinctive, Mr. Ives left Rome for this country,
where he was successful in finding, for his model,
an Indian who fulfilled all his requirements. Re-
turning to Italy, he there perfected this, his great
masterpiece.

In 1852, the New Jersey Legislature appropriat-
ed $2,000 to pay the Indians for a claim they

made in regard to certain hunting and fishing;
rights. On this occasion the red men were repre-
sented by Shawriskhekung (Wilted Grass), an
Indian of pure native blood. He was a graduate
of Princeton College, having been educated at the
expense of the Scotch Missionary Society, which
named him Bartholomew S. Calvin. At the age
of twenty-three he entered the Continental Army
to fight for independence, and at the time he pre-
sented to the Legislature the petition for pay
for the Indian fishing rights he was upward of
eighty years of age. This aged Indian closed
his address with the following words: "Not a
drop of our blood have you spilled in battle ; not
an acre of our land have you taken but by our
consent. These facts speak for themselves and
need no comment. They place the character of
New Jersey in bold relief and bright example to
those States within whose territorial limits our
brethren still remain. There may be some who
would despise an Indian benediction, but when
I return to my people and make known to them
the result of my mission, the ear of the great
Sovereign of the universe, which is still open to
our cry, will be penetrated with our invocation
of blessings upon the generous sons of New
Jersey."

"It is a proud fact in the history of New Jer-
sey," said Senator Samuel L. Southard before
the Legislature on this same occasion, "that every
foot of her soil has been obtained from the
Indians by voluntary purchase and transfer, a fact
no other State of the Union, not even the land
which bears the name of Penn can boast of."
For these as well as for other reasons it has
seemed to me to be pre-eminently proper that
New Jersey should possess this magnificent
monument cast in honor of the American Indian."

With your sanction I will have it brought to
Newark and have it placed on a suitably pre-
pared foundation, all at my own individual ex-
pense, in the locality we shall decide upon. Await-
ing your reply, I am. with great respect,
Yours sincerely,

To the above was sent the following
reply :

Office of the Mayor, City Hall, Newark,

N. J., Sept. 13, 1895.
Dr. Jonathan Ackerman Coles, 222 Market Street,

City:

Dear Sir — The communication directed to the
Mayor of the City of Newark, dated September
4, 1895, and containing your munificent offer to
present to the city a handsome bronze group, was
referred to the Common Council at its last meet-
ing, held Friday, September 6, accompanied by a
message which read as follows:

CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW JERSEY

( Mil. r -I ill'- Mayor, City Hall, Newark.

September 6, 1895.
To the Honor. d.lr tin- Common Council of the

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(ii-iitlcmcn — 1 have the honor and pleasure
to transmit herewith a communication which
I received ft terday from Dr. Jonathan Ackennan
Coles. In it IK- offers, as a gift to the city of
Newark, a wi>rk of art. by an American sculptor
of note, being a group in bronze which marks a
most interesting historical event, and as a me-
morial will recall the valuable services rendered
in the interests of science and education by his
distinguished father, the late Dr. Abraham Coles.
I respectfully recommend that action be taken
by your honorable body to acknowledge the valu-
able and interesting gift, and to co-operate with
the donor in providing a suitable place for its
erection.

Yours verv truly,

J. A. LEBKUECHER, Mayor

It was received and read with great gratifica-
tion, and in response thereto the following resolu-
tion of acknowledgment and acceptance was un-
animously adopted :

"Whereas, A beautiful work of art, by a sculptor
of distinction, has been presented to the city of
Newark by Dr Jonathan Ackerman Coles; there-
fore, be it

Ked, That the Mayor be instructed to
convey to the donor the sincere sense of apprecia-
tion in which this gift is received by the municipal
government and people of the city of Newark;
and be it further

"Resolved, That a committee of five, of whom
the Mayor and the President of the Common
Council shall be members, be appointed to act
with the donor in the selection of a suitable site
for the placing of this valuable gift."

In pursuance of the above resolution I have
the honor to extend to you, in behalf of the
municipal government, the assurance of its high
appreciation of your generous gift, and as Chief
Executive to tender to you the thanks of its
citizens.

The spirit which prompts the presentation of
this artistic group of bronze to the city is worthy
of the greatest commendation. It gives me much
pleasure to acknowledge for the first time in the
history of the city a gift from one of its private
citizens, which shall be for many generations a
civic monument of beauty and a source of pride
to the residents of Newark.

I have the honor to be yours very truly,

J A. LEBKUF.CHKR, Mayor.

The committee, which consisted of Mayor Julius
A. Lebkuecher, Mr. David D. Bragaw, President

of the Common Council ; Aldermen William Har-
rigan, Sidney N. Ogden and Winton C. Garrison,
after visiting the different parks in company with
the donor, finally decided upon the North End
of Lincoln park as the most suitable site for the
bronze.

Subsequently the Mayor and Common Council
presented Dr. Coles with a testimonial of the
city's appreciation of his gift. This Memorial
the "New York Tribune" describes as "a beautiful
specimen of the art of engrossing. It is in an
album form, bound in dark leather of the finest
quality, the flyleaves being of rich white moire
silk. The body of the memorial contains the com-
munication of the Mayor to the Common Council
announcing the offer of Dr. Coles, the resolutions
passed by the Council in accepting the gift, and
the announcement by Mayor Lebkuecher to Dr.
Coles of the acceptance. The delineator is Mr.
John H. Morris, Secretary of the Board of
Assessments."

The Rt. Rev. John Williams, D. D.,
LL.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Connecti-
cut,* Chancellor of Trinity College, etc.,
etc., in a letter to the son of the late Dr.
Abraham Coles, referring to the bronze
and its pedestal, said :

"An inscription of the last stanzas of your
father's beautiful National hymns, 'Columbia,
the Land of the Free,' and 'My Native Land.'
upon the marble pedestal of the bronze historical
group you are about to present to the City of
Newark, N. J., would not only be a graceful trib-
ute to your father's memory, but would also give
a National as well as local value to the gift."

The Bishop's suggestion was carried out.
On the front of the pedestal were cut the
following words : —

From our borders expel all oppression and wrong,
Oh! Thou, who did'st plant us and make us a

Nation !
In the strength of Thine arm make us evermore

strong ;
On our gates inscribe Praise, on our walls write

Salvation!
May Thyself be our Light, from Thy heavenly

height
Ever flashing new splendors and chasing our

night.

That united and happy we ever may be
To the end of all time, still the Land of the Free !

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On the back of the pedestal the stanza
cut in the granite is : —

God of our fathers ! bless.
Exalt in righteousness

This Land of ours !
Be Right our lofty aim,
Our title and our claim,
To high and higher fame

Among the Powers.

Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1895,
was selected by the Common Council Com-
mittee and Dr. Coles as the time most ap-
propriate for the unveiling exercises.

The following was the order of exer-
cises :

Music under the direction of Mr. Frank E. Drake ;
Prof. Thomas Bott, bass ; James V. Orchard,
tenor, and Mr. David B. Dana, cornetist.

1. National Hymn, "My Native Land," Abraham
Coles. The children, teachers and friends of
the Public and Private Schools of Newark, and
from elsewhere in the State, led by Prof. Bott,
Mr. Orchard. Mr. Dana, cornetist. and Mr.
Drake.

2. Unveiling of the Bronze Historic Group and
Pedestal, by Miss Lucy Depue Ogden, grand-
daughter of the Hon. David Ayres Depue.
LL.D., Justice of the Supreme Court of New
Jersey, and Master Robert B. Bradley, grandson
of the late Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, LL.D.,
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States.

3. Presentation Address by Dr. J. A. Coles.

4. Address by the Hon. Julius A. Lebkuecher,
Mayor of the City of Newark, accepting the
gift, and turning it over to the Board of Works.

5. Address by Mr. Harrison Van Duyne. Presi-
dent of the Board of Works.

6. Delivery of Keys of Boxes in Marble Pedestal,
Miss Grace E. Bates, grand-niece of David D.
Bragaw, President of the Common Council.

7. Receiving of the Keys by Miss Helen Coyken-
dall, granddaughter of Henry Hopper, Chief
of Police, who will subsequently, for safe keep-
ing, drop them from the Bridge street bridge
into the waters of the Passaic.

8. National Hymn, "Columbia, the Land of the
Free," Abraham Coles, 1853. School children
and audience, led by Prof Bott, Mr Orchard,
Mr. Dana, and Mr. Drake.

9. Address by Dr. Henry J. Anderson, President
of the Board of Education.

10. National Hymn, "The Fourth of July," Abra-
ham Coles, 1851. School children and audience,

led by Prof. Bott, Mr. Orchard, Mr. Dana, anl
Mr. Drake.

11. Address by Dr. William N. Barringer, Super-
intendent of Public Schools. Subject: "A
Nation's History as shown in its Monuments."

12. National Hymn, "Our Country's Banner,"
Abraham Coles, 1861. School children and
audience, led by Prof. Bott, Mr. Orchard, Mr.
Dana, and Mr. Drake.

13. Address by David R. Frazer, D. D., pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church. In honor
of the Rev. Mr. Pierson, the first minister of
this church, Newark is said to have received its
name, he having been educated in Newark, Eng-
land.

14. Bi-Centennial Ode, "Two Hundred Years
Ago," Abraham Coles, 1866. School children
and audience, led by Prof. Bott, Mr Orchard,
Mr. Dana, and Mr. Drake.

15. Benediction (1:30 p. M.), by Robert M.
Luther, D D., pastor of the South Baptist
Church.

In referring to the "Coles Memorial
High School" building at Kurnool, "The
Madras Mail," of Madras, India, Decem-
ber 19, 1908, says :

"His Excellency, the Honorable Sir Arthur
Lawley, G. C, I. E., K. C, M. G., Governor
of Fort George, after formally declaring the
Memorial High School building open, was con-
ducted to the principal hall, where the elite of
Kurnool interested in the noble educational work
of the American Missionaries in the District
were assembled to show their sympathy with
their activities. The Rev. Dr. A. W. Stanton,
the missionary in charge, had prepared an in-
teresting programme of songs and recitations by
the children, who entered with great zest and
feeling into the performance, which wound up
with a statement from Mr. Stanton giving a his-
tory of the school. His Excellency delivered one
of his characteristic addresses, full of wise coun-
sel and deep interest in the rising generation of
India. His Excellency spoke as follows:

" 'Mr. Stanton, Ladies and Gentlemen : I as-
sure you that I esteem it a very great pleasure
and a very great honor to have been able to
formally open the "Coles Memorial High School"
building, and to express my sense of admiration
at the noble purpose and the great generosity of
those by whom this building was erected.

" 'My admiration of the building itself is great
and my fervent hope and prayer is that God may
bless Dr. Coles and his sister, by whose in-
strumentality this building has been brought into
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iipnii those who control the destinies of this school,
and have the advantage of working within these
w.ills. You have shown me this evening, sir,
a most beautiful building of brick and stone,
and you tell nu- it will shortly be equipped with
every modern requirement. I congratulate you
on what you have achieved, without Government
help. It is, htlieve me, in my opinion, most prais-
worthy.' "

The tablet on the building reads:

To the Glory of God,

And in loving memory of

Abraham Coles, A. M., M. D., Ph.D., LL.Lv,

and of his wife

Caroline E. Ackerman Coles,

This building is erected by their son,

Jonathan Ackerman Coles, M. D., LL.D ,

and their daughter,

Emilie S. Coles.

"With the singing of Dr. Abraham Coles' fine
old hymn, 'O all ye lands unite your joys,' to
the tune of 'Old Hundred,' followed by the
National anthem, the exercises closed. With a
hearty hand-shake the Governor took his de-
parture, amid the shouts of the school children,
the waving of flags and the ringing of the school
building's bronze bell."

Reference has been made to Dr. Coles'
"New Rendering of the Hebrew Psalms
into English Verse," and we give herewith
his version of Psalm XIX, concerning
which he says : There are two voices — one
inaudible — declaring the glory of God, the
other audible, declaring His u'ill. It forms
a fit companion piece to Psalm VIII. We
have thus a day-piece and a night-piece
by the same hand. The pastoral life is fav-
orable to meditation. Spent in the open
air, all natural sights and sounds grow fam-
iliar. David in both Psalms recalls the
peaceful time. when, a shepherd lad. al-
ready *killed in the use of his rustic lyre,
and accustomed to give vent to his pious
rapture in holy song, he lay on summer
nights on the pleasant hill-sides of Beth-
lehem watching hi* flock, and, looking up,
saw "the heaven* sowed with stars, thick
as a field"; and. as the night wore away.
saw the grey dawn, and the kindling fires
of day-break, till, all at once, the sun, the
regent of day, shot suddenly up from be-
hind the mountains of Moab.

PSALM XIX

1 The rolling skies with lips of flame
Their Maker's power and skill proclaim :

2 Day speaks to day, and night to night
Shows knowledge writ in beams of light.

3 And though no voice, no spoken word
Can by the outward ear be heard,

4 The witness of a travelling sound.
Reverberates the world around.

In the bright east with gold enriched
He for the sun a tent has pitched,

5 That, like a bridegroom after rest,
Comes from his chamber richly drest.
An athlete strong and full of grace.
And glad to run the heavenly race, —

6 Completes his round with tireless feet,
And naught is hidden from his heat.

7 But, Nature's book sums not the whole :
God's perfect law converts the soul;
His sure unerring word supplies

The means to make the simple wise;

8 His precepts are divinely right.
An inspiration and delight;

His pure commandment makes all clear,

9 Clean and enduring in His fear.

The judgments of the Lord are true,
And righteous wholly through and through ;

10 More to be coveted than gold.
Of higher worth a thousand fold ;
More sweet than sweetest honey far,
Th' unfoldings of their sweetness are :

11 They warn Thy servant, and they guard;
In keeping them there's great reward.

12 Who can his errors understand?
My secret faults are as the sand :
From these me cleanse, make pure within,

13 And keep me from presumptuous sin;
Lest sin me rule and fetter fast,
And I unpardoned die at last.

14 My words and meditation be

O Lord, my Rock, approved of Thee.

In the Highland Home for Children,
erected in memory of Dr. Coles and of his
brother-in-law. Mr. Warren Ackerman, is
a stained glass window, illustrating the
Study of Nature, whereon is inscribed : —
"The heavens declare the glory of God ;
and the firmament sheweth His handy-
work. Day unto day mtereth speech, and
night unto night sheweth knowledge. Let
the words of my mouth, and the meditations
of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O
Lord, my Strength, and my Redeemer."

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CLEVELAND, Grovcr,

Lawyer, Statesman, President.

Grover Cleveland, son of Rev. Richard
Falley and Ann (Neal) Cleveland, was
born March 18, 1837, in Caldwell, New Jer-
sey, in a small two-story building which was
the parsonage of the Presbyterian church
of which his father was then pastor, and
which is yet standing. He was named
Stephen Grover for his father's predecessor
in the pastorate, but in childhood the first
name was dropped.

When he was three years old his parents
removed to Fayetteville, Onondaga county,
New York, where he lived until he was
fourteen, attending the district school and
academy. He was of studious habits, and
his frank open disposition made him a fav-
i rite with both his teachers and fellows,
lie left the academy before he could com-
plete the course, and took employment in a
village store, his wages being fifty dollars
for the first year and one hundred dollars
for the second year, but soon after the be-
ginning of the latter period he removed to
Clinton, New York, whither his parents had
preceded him, and resumed studies at the
academy in preparation for admission to
Hamilton College. The death of his father,
however, disappointed this expectation, and
made it necessary for him to enter upon
self-support. He accordingly accepted a
position as bookkeeper and assistant teacher
in the New York Institution for the Blind,
which he filled acceptably for a year. Start-
ing west in search of more lucrative em-
ployment, with twenty-five dollars to de-
fray his expenses, he stopped on the way at
Buffalo, New York, to make a farewell visit
to his uncle, Lewis F. Allen, a stock farmer,
who induced him to remain and aid him in
the compilation of "Allen's American
Shorthorn Herd Book." In return he re-
ceived the sum of fifty dollars, and with
this aid he entered the law offices of Rogers,
Bowen & Rogers, at Buffalo, as a clerk and
law student. His student life was one of
arduous labor and vigorous economy and

self-denial. Fur a few months he served
without compensation as a copyist, and then
received a wage of four dollars a week.
He became confidential clerk to his em-
ployers, and was admitted to the bar in
1859.

Air. Cleveland's public life began in 1863,
when he was appointed assistant district
attorney for Erie county. A staunch
Democrat from his first studies in Ameri-
can history and politics, he had been a
sturdy supporter of his party and an indus-
trious worker from the day in 1858 when
he cast his first vote. In the office to which
he was chosen he acquitted himself so well
that at the expiration of his term he re-
ceived the unanimous nomination for dis-
trict attorney. He had for his Republican
opponent a warm personal friend, Lyman
K. Bass, who was elected by a plurality of
five hundred; Mr. Cleveland, however,
polled more than his party vote in all the
city wards. Retiring from office in Janu-
ary, 1866, he formed a law partnership with
Isaac V. Vanderpoel, former State Treas-
urer, under the firm name of Vanderpoel &
Cleveland. In 1869 he became a member
of the law firm of Laning, Cleveland & Fol-
som, his partners being Albert P. Laning,
former State Senator, and for years at-
torney for the Canada Southern and Lake
Shore railways, and Oscar Folsom, former
United States District Attorney. As in pre-
vious years, he sent the large portion of his
earnings to his mother, to aid her in sup-
port of her family. In 1870 at the earnest
solicitation of his party friends, and against
his own earnestly expressed desire, he con-
sented to become candidate for sheriff, and
was elected after a stubbornly contested
canvass. His official conduct was warmly
approved by the people. At the expiration
of his term of office he resumed the prac-
tice of law, in association with Lyman K.
Bass and Wilson S. Bissell. Mr. Bass re-
tired in 18/9 on account of ill health, the
firm becoming Cleveland & Bissell. In
1881 George I. Sicard was admitted to part-

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nership. During all these changes Mr.
Cleveland shared in a large and lucrative
business, while he had attracted the admira-
tion of bench and bar for the care with
which he prepared his cases, and the ability
and industry with which he contested them.

In 1 88 1 Mr. Cleveland was nominated
for Mayor of P.ntTalo on a platform advo-
cating administrative reform and economy
in municipal expenditures, and was elected
by the largest majority ever given a candi-
date for that office, and at an election
where-, although the Democrats carried their
local ticket to success, the Republicans car-
ried the city for their State ticket by more
than one thousand plurality. His adminis-
tration carried unstinted approval, for his
courageous devotion to the interests of the
people and his success in checking unwise,
illegal and extravagant expenditures, sav-
ing to the city a million dollars in the first
six months of his term, and he was a popu-
lar favorite as "The Veto Mayor." He was
now a State celebrity, and the convention of
his party held September 22, 1882, at Syra-
cuse, nominated him for Governor. He
uas elected over the Republican nominee,
Charles J. Folger, by the tremendous plu-
rality of 192.854— the largest plurality ever
given a gubernatorial candidate in any state
in the Union. Among the chief acts of his
administration were his approval of a bill
to submit to the people a proposition to
abolish contract prison labor; his veto of a
bill permitting wide latitude to savings bank
directors in investment of deposits ; his veto
of a similar bill respecting insurance com-
panies ; and his veto of a bill to establish a
monoply by limiting the right to construct
certain street railways to companies here-
tofore organized, to the exclusion of such
as should hereafter obtain the consent of
property owner- and local authorities.

Mr. Cleveland was nominated for Presi-
dent by the Democratic National Conven-
tion in i Ihicago, in July. 1884. receiving 683
votes out of a total of 820. His Republi-

can opponent was Hon. James G. Elaine.
The campaign was remarkable for the dis-
CUSMOII of the personal characters and qual-
ifications of the candidates rather than po-
litical principles. At the election Mr. Cleve-
land received a majority of thirty-seven in
the Electoral College, and a majority in the
popular vote of 23,005, out of a total of
10,067,610. At his inauguration, March 4,
1885. he delivered an admirable inaugural
address, with flowing ease, and his modesty
and sincerity impressed all hearers. He
took his official oath upon a small moroc-
co-bound, gilt-edged Bible, a gift from his
mother when as a lad he first left home.
Among the most important acts of his ad-
ministration was his proclamation of March
13, 1885, for the removal of white intruders
from Oklahoma, Indian Territory ; and, af-
ter the burning of Aspinwall, Panama, by
the revolutionists, March 31, 1885, ms ord-
ering a naval expedition to protect Ameri-
can persons and property.

Mr. Cleveland was unanimously renom-
inated for President in 1888. but was de-
feated by Benjamin Harrison, Republican,
although his plurality in the popular vote
was more than 1 00,000. He then located
in the city of New York and again took up
his profession. In June, 1892, he was nom-
inated for the Presidency a third time, by
the Democratic National Convention in
Chicago, receiving on the first ballot 617
1-3 votes out of 910. the nomination then
being made unanimous. At the election he
defeated Benjamin Harrison by a plurality
of 1 10 in the Electoral College, and a plur-
ality of 3/9,150 in the popular vote. He
was inaugurated March 4, 1893, in the pres-
ence of a vast multitude in midst of a blind-
ing snowstorm. The military and civic pa-
rade was more imposing than on any other
similar occasion. His administration was
marked by some most unusual features.
His first important act was to call a special
-e-Mon of Congress, August 7, 1893, and in
pursuance of his recommendation was re-

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pealed the act of 1890 calling for the
monthly purchase of $4,500,000 of silver
bullion. In this he was opposed by the sil-
ver wing of his party. Elected as he was on
a tariff-reform platform, both houses of
Congress were in accord with him on that
issue, and in 1894 was passed the Wilson
bill, a tariff- for-revenue-only measure. The
industrial and financial stagnation of that
period was ascribed by the Republicans to
this measure, while the Free-Silver Demo-
crats attributed it in large degree to the re-
peal of the silver-purchase measure, and in
November of the same year the Republi-
cans won a protective tariff victory, with
the result that during the latter half of
President Cleveland's administration he had
to deal with a Republican Congress. He
performed invaluable service to law and
order and protection to property by his firm
stand with reference to the railroad riots
in July, 1894, ordering United States troops
to Chicago and other railroad centers to
enforce the orders and processes of the
Federal Courts, and to prevent interference
with inter-state commerce and the transmis-
sion of the United States mails. On Janu-
ary i, 1895, ne appointed, with the consent
of the Senate, the commission to inquire in-
to the Venezuelan boundary. During the
insurrection in Cuba he took strong meas-
ures against the violation of the neutrality
laws. In February, in order to preserve
the national credit, he ordered an issue of
four per cent, thirty-year bonds to the
amount of $62,000,000. May 29th he ve-
toed the river and harbor bill calling for art
immediate expenditure of $17.000,000, and
authorizing contracts for the further sum
of $62,000,000, but the bill was passed over
his veto. In the summer of the same year
he received the signal compliment of being
chosen as arbitrator in the dispute between
Italy and Colombia, in which the former
claimed large pecuniary damages for in-
juries sustained by Indians during the revo-
lution of 1885. Late in 1895, m ms annual
message, he recommended a general reform

of banking and currency laws, and accom-
plished the settlement of the Venezuelan
boundary, the treaty being signed February
2, 1896. In the latter year lie ivMu-d an ord-
er under which thirty thousand additional
posts in the civil service were placed under
n.--trictii>ns formulated by the Board of
Livil Service Commissioners. In the same
year he sent General Fitzhugh Lee to Ha-
vana as consul-general — an appointment
which was approved by a great mass of
Union veterans almost as heartily as it was
by the ex-Confederates. On June 16, 1896,
he issued an open letter condemning the
free-silver movement, and approving the
principles of the Gold Wing of the Demo-
cratic party, a document which had a salu-
tary and far-reaching effect. Before the
expiration of his official term he had the
great pleasure of witnessing the execution
of a treaty between the United States and
Great Britain providing for the establish-
ment of an international tribunal of general
arbitration.

( )ne of President Cleveland's last public
appearances before retiring from his high
office was the delivery of an address at
the sesquicentennial celebration of Prince-
ton College, which took on its more appro-
priate title of University. Shortly after-
ward he purchased a home in Princeton,
where his first son was born. Known as a
polished and forceful writer, Mr. Cleve-
land's most important papers have been
widely published. His annual message of
1887 was issued in a sumptuous edition de
luxe, illustrated by the famous artist.
Thomas Nast. An important compilation
of his utterances was made by Francis
Gottsberger. of New York, under the title,
"Principles and Purposes of Our Form of
Government, As Set Forth In Public Pap-
ers of Grover Cleveland," and George F.
Parker edited a volume, "Writings and
Speeches of Grover Cleveland." In 1904
appeared "Presidential Problems," a vol-
ume of essays by Mr. Cleveland, two of
which were originally delivered at Prince-

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ton University, the others being articles
•A Inch had their original appearance in lead-
ing magazine^.

Mr. ( lorhuul was of striking personal-
ity, commanding respect and confidence
under all circumstances and before all man-
ner of a--cmblages. Physically of large
;uid powerful frame, in motion he was de-
liberate and firm, yet without slowness. In
manner and voice he was genial and agree-
alilr. r.road-minded and liberal in thought,
he was tolerant and charitable. In religion
he was a man of conscience rather than of
any set creed. All his personal habits
were marked by Democratic simplicity, and
totally devoid of ostentation. After his re-
tirement from the loftiest place open to an
American, he Readily grew in the regard
and affection of the people, while publicists
and political students are only beginning to
adequately measure the wisdom and bene-
ficence which were the characteristics of his
public career. He died June 24, 1908.

In the second year of his first Presi-
dential term. June 2. 1886, President
Cleveland wa-- married to Miss Frances
Folsoni. the ceremony being performed by
Kev. Byron Sunderland, D. D., in the Blue
Room in the White House.

ALEXANDER, William Cowper,

Lawyer, Insurance Actnary.

William Cowper Alexander was born in
Prince Kdward county. Virginia, May 2Oth,
1806. son of Rev. Archibald Alexander,
D.D.. the tir'-t professor in the Princeton
Theological Seminary, and of Janetta
(WaddeH Alexander, daughter of Rev.
James \\addcl. \\irt--' "Blind Preacher."
He was graduated from Princeton College
in iS_>4. lie Mudied law tinder Hon. James
S. Green, in Princeton, and was admitted
to the bar in 1827. He became a leader in
the Democratic party. He was a State
Senator from 1853 to 1868, and president
of that body four years. In 1857 he re-
ceived the Democratic nomination for Gov-

ernor, but was defeated, with his party. In
1859 he was chosen president of the Equi-
table Life Assurance Society of the L'nited
States, and held the position until his death,
August 24th, 1874. He was a member
from New Jersey of the famous Peace
Congress, held in Washington in 1861. La-
fayette College, Pennsylvania, conferred
the degree of Doctor of Laws upon him in
1860. He was never married.

BROOKS, Noah,

Journalist and Author.

Noah Brooks, one of the most pro-
lific and influential writers of his day.
was born at Castine. Maine. October
24, 1830, son of Barker and Mar-
garet I Perkins I Brooks. His father, a
master shipbuilder, was a man of great
strength and kindness of character ; and his
ancestors, of English origin, were noted for
patriotism and public spirit during the Rev-
olutionary War. The first American repre-
sentative of the paternal line in this country
was William Brooks, of Kent, England, a
passenger in the ship "Blessing," who land-
ed at Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1635. His
maternal descent is derived from the Per-
kins family of Massachusetts, which has
been equally prominent and honorable
throughout colonial history.

Noah Brooks was educated in the public
schools and the high school of his native
town, and at the age of eighteen removed to
Boston, Massachusetts, where he began
studies with a view to adopting landscape
painting as a life calling. In the midst of
his artistic studies, however, he developed
a strong taste for literature, contributing
short sketches, notices, essays, and humor-
ous tales to the weekly newspapers and
magazines of the day, and by the time he
was twenty-one, he was able to earn his
living by his pen. He became regularly at-
tached to the staff of the "Boston Atlas," a
daily newspaper. In 1855 he went west.

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first entering into a mercantile partnership
with John G. Brooks, an intimate friend in
Dixon, Illinois, and upon its failure migrat-
ing with him to Kansas, where he engaged
in farming. After a short sojourn in the
territory, during which he was actively in-
terested in the Free State agitations, he and
Mr. Brooks went to California with a great
company of emigrants, crossing the plains
with ox-teams, the only available method at
that day. In the course of the tedious jour-
ney they had many experiences and adven-
tures, which were subsequently narrated in
some of Mr. Brooks' best tales. Mr. Brooks
located in Marysville, Yuba county, where
he undertook the publication of the "Daily
Appeal" in association with Benjamin P.
Avery, afterwards U. S. Minister to China,
but in 1862 he sold out his interest and ac-
cepted the post of Washington correspon-
dent for the "Sacramento Union." the prin-
cipal journal of the Pacific coast. At the
national capital he renewed his friendship
with President Lincoln, whom he had
known years before in Illinois, and in 1865
was invited by him to become his private
secretary, in place of John G. Nicholay,
then recently appointed to the French mis-
sion. The offer was accepted, but before
the change could be made the President was
assassinated. Mr. Brooks was then ap-
pointed by President Johnson naval officer
of the Port of San Francisco, but was re-
moved at the end of eighteen months for
refusing to comply with certain political re-
quirements of the administration. After his
retirement he returned at once to journal-
ism, and from 1866 to 1871 was editor of
the "Alta California," of San Francisco.
He was a regular contributor to the "Over-
land Monthly" from its foundation in 1866,
and also conducted a semi-monthly juvenile
magazine. From 1871 to 18/6 he was at-
tached to the «taff of the "New York Trib-
une," most of the time a= night editor, then
accepted a position with "The Times,"
which he held for eight years. In 1884 he

became editor of the Xewark ( New Jersey)
"Daily Advertiser," hut in 1892 retired
permanently from journalism. lie has
since devoted himself to authorship, and
during the winter of 1894-5 he made an ex-
tensive tour through Egypt, Turkey and
the Holy Land. Besides innumerable ar-
ticles, reviews and short stories in all the
leading American magazines, he has pub-
lished "The Boy Emigrants" (1876) ; "The
Fairport Nine" ( 1880) ; "Our Base-hall
Club" (1884); "Abraham Lincoln, a Bio-
graphy for Young People" ( 1888) ; "The
Boy Settlers" ( 1891 ) ; "American States-
men" (1893) ; "Tales of the Maine Coast"
( 1894) ; "Abraham Lincoln and the Down-
fall of American Slavery" (1894); "Short
Studies in American Party Politics"
(1895); "How the Republic is Gov-
erned" (1895): "Washington in Lincoln's
Time" ( 1896) ; "Mediterranean Trip"
(1896); "History of the United States"
( 1896) ; and "Story of Marco Polo" ( 1896) .

All of Mr. Brooks' stories possess
a high degree of imagination and construc-
tiveness ; and with a wealth of wholesome
incident and adventure, are both amusing
and instructive. As a worker he was untir-
ing, able to accomplish an enormous
amount, and possessed of a remarkably re-
tentive memory for facts and details. In
his large circle of friends he was known as
affable, jolly, and a good story teller, and
enjoyed the close friendship of the majority
of the public men of his time. He was a
founder of the Authors' Club of New York-
City, and belonged to the Century Club and
New England Society. In religious faith he
was an orthodox Congregationalist. active in
church and charitable work, and held it his
greatest privilege to aid many young men
to a start in life.

Mr. Brook1- was married, in 1856, to Car-
oline A., daughter of Oliver Fellows, of
Salem, Massachusetts ; she died in Marys-
ville. California, in 1862. He resided in
New York City, spending his summers at

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his country house at Castine, Maine, which
with happy humor he christened "The Ark."
Ik- died in 1903.

ABBETT, Leon,

Lawyer, Legislator, Governor.

Governor Leon Abbett, a man of dis-
tinguished ability, and \\in- has left a
marked impress upon the legislation of his
State, descended from an English Quaker
who emigrated to .Montgomery county,
i ''-nnsylvania, about the mid he eigh-

teenth century. E/ekie! Abbett. a son of
this emigrant, was a prosperous hatter; he
married Sarah M. Howell, of a prominent
Xew Jersey family, and they were the par-
ents of ( iovernor Abbett, who was born in
I 'liiladelphia, October 8, 1836. and died in
Jersey City, December 4, 1884.

I le dimple-ted his education in the Central
Nigh School, Philadelphia, from which he
uas graduated in his seventeenth year, at
the head of his class. He studied law under
John \Y. Ashmead, of Philadelphia, and
was admitted to the bar in 1858. After
practicing for a year in Philadelphia, he re-
moved to Hoboken, and was admitted to
the bars of New Jersey and New York, and
\\ as associated in partnership with William
J. A. I-'uller, of Xew York, until the death
of last named, in 1889. Mr. Abbett's abil-
ity, energy and eloquence gave him great
prominence, and he was engaged in many
important cases, and was recognized as an
authority in cases involving municipal and
corporation law.

Mis brilliant public career had its begin-
ning in 1863, when he was elected corpora-
lion counsel of Hoboken. A Democrat in
politics, in iSM, he was elected to the legis-
1-iture, was re-elected the next year, and in
both terms was chairman of the assembly
Democratic cauciiv In 1 8u, he removed to
Jer-<-y City, and represented the First As-
sembly District in the legislature, from 1868
to 1870. being -peaker of the house the last
two years of his terms. Tn 1860 he was

president of the Board of Education of Jer-
sey City. In 1872 he was a delegate-at-
large to the Democratic National Conven-
tion at Baltimore, and one of its secretaries,
and in 1876 was a delegate to the Demo-
cratic National Convention in St. Louis.
During this period he was corporation coun-
sel for the city of Bayonne, and the town
of Union, and subsequently served as such
for Jersey City. In 1874, while in Europe,
he was nominated for State senator, was
elected, served three years and the last year
was president of the senate. In 1878 he
was elected by Governor McClellan a mem-
ber of the commission to draft a general
charter for the government of cities, and
later Governor Ludlow appointed him to
a commission to devise means for a more
just method of taxation. In 1883 he was
elected governor, and in his inaugural ad-
dress he called attention to the inadequacy
of the taxation system of the State, whereby
railroads were practically exempted from
taxation, and urged an immediate remedy ;
the legislature passed a law imposing a tax
on railroads and other corporations, and the
same was upheld by the courts. He forced
from the Morris & Essex Railroad Com-
pany the surrender of an alleged irreparable
contract with the State, exempting the road
from taxation, and recovered from it $235,-
ooo in back taxes, at the same time induc-
ing other railroads to abandon their exemp-
tion claims. At his instance the labor laws
were wisely amended, and a series of acts
passed for the better government of muni-
cipalities. In his second term he procured
the enactment of a ballot reform law. In
1887 he was the caucus candidate of his
party for United States senator, but was
defeated, and in 1889 was re-elected gov-
ernor. He was chairman of the New Jer-
sey delegation to the Democratic National
Convention in 1880. He was frequently
mentioned as a desirable candidate for the
presidency. He died in Jersey City. Decem-
ber 4. 1894.

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NAST, Thomas,

Caricaturist, Painter.

Thomas Nast was born in Landau, Ba-
varia, September 27, 1840, son of Thomas
and Apollonia (Apres) Nast. His father,
a musician of ability, for many years held a
position in the Bavarian army, but in 1846,
having received timely warning of the ap-
proach of the revolution which two years
later convulsed Europe, he emigrated to
America with his family. For some time
he was a member of the famous Philhar-
monic Society of New York City, appearing
frequently in concerts, etc.. and was en-
gaged at the old Burton Theater, Chambers
street. He died in 1856.

The son was educated in the New York
public schools, and, displaying a decided
talent for art, at the age of fourteen began
a six-months' course of study with Theo-
dore Kaufman, an artist of some note. He
received no other training whatever, and
immediately thereafter was employed in
taking sketches and furnishing drawings for
"Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper." In
1860 he sketched the Heenan-Sayers prize
fight in England, for the New York "Il-
lustrated News," and soon after went to
Italy to follow the army of Garibaldi in the
victorious campaign through Sicily and Cal-
abria. He contributed numerous battle pic-
tures to the illustrated press of New York,
London, and Paris ; and as an aide on Gen-
eral Garibaldi's staff was entrusted with
several diplomatic missions of delicacy and
importance. He returned to the United
States in February, 1861, and continued his
work with the "Illustrated News" until he
formed a permanent connection with "Har-
per's Weekly." in July, 1862. His Italian
experience had given him a training in
sketching battle scenes such as had been en-
joyed by no other American artist ; and his
work in this line during the remainder of
the war, as well as his numerous pictorial
comments on the current situations, wielded
a vast influence on the side of the Union,

I. lacing "1 iarjurV Weekly" among the fore-
most journals of the day. However, during
the period of reconstruction, after the close
of the war, Mr. Nast did his must mem-
orable and historic work. His peerless pic-
torial satires accomplished more against the
inevitable corruption in government affairs
than all the mass of invective evoked by the
trying conditions of the times. From 1870
until 1875 he produced a succession of hum-
orous cartoons setting forth tin- frauds and
peculations of William M. Tweed and the
"rings" which had seized control of the var-
ious departments in New York City ; and
as a consequence, public opinion was stirred,
the matter investigated and the rings broken
up. Mr. Nast continued his work for
"Harper's Weekly" until the end of 1886,
but finding himself unable to support the
Republican nominees in 1884. became an
ardent upholder of the Cleveland ticket. For
several years after 1872, he prepared and
published "Nast's Illustrated Almanac" and
afterward illustrated the works of Petro-
leum V. Nasby and other comic writers, as
well as an edition of Robinson Crusoe, and
furnished a set of colored caricatures of
well known men for "Bal d' Opera." A
particular feature of Mr. Xast's work, apart
from his wonderful portraits, was the abil-
ity to portray the individuality of his sub-
jects by some characteristic pose or pecu-
liarity of apparel, never leaving any uncer-
tainty regarding the object of his satire.
Thus, in the rotund figure with the money-
bag face, none could fail to recognize
Tweed. The characteristic coat and boots
with the famous Gratz Brown tag always
revealed Horace Greeley : and the exagger-
ated eye-glasses and lank figure indicated
that A. Oakey Hall was taking his turn up-
on the rack. Mr. Nast's work in this direc-
tion was one of the pioneer efforts in the
substitution of the topical cartoon for the
"leader" of the old fashioned newspaper.
While comparatively few would read and
appreciate the latter, the former appealed to
all classes. Tweed once remarked that the

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"leading" w;i- i>f little account, but that it
tin- picture^ that bothered him. A new
• •r:i in journalism thus l>egan. The spirited
drawing with their varied symbolisms and
relentless ridicule were a power in moving
popular sentiment and compelling a right-
ing of wrongs. Among the most noted
symbols invented by Mr. Nast were the
"Ameriens" tiger for Tammany, the Repub-
lican (;.O. 1*. elephant, the Democratic
jackass, the inflationist rag baby, the buz-
zard clipped dollar, the bloody shirt of an-
archy, and others which have become the
common stock of present-day political cari-
catures.

As a painter, Mr. Nast produced many
works which for beauty of conception and
execution hold high rank in American art.
His largest painting, "The Departure of the
-tli Kegiment from New York in 1861,"
now hang- in the regimental armory; and
.miong his other notable productions are
"Peace Again" (1865); "Lincoln Entering
Richmond" (1808): "Saving the Flag"
(18111 ) : " I Vace in Union" (nine by twelve
Ei > t i, now in the public library at Galena,
Illinois. (1895); "St. Nicholas" (1895),
now hanging in the St. Nicholas club house,
Xew York City: "Immortal Light of Gen-
ius" (i8i/>>. painted for Sir Henry Irving.
In 1873, 1875 and again in 1888 Mr.
X'ast made lecturing tours though the

mini State-, accompanying his entertain-
ing and witty talks with off-hand sketches
and caricature- in colored crayons and in
oil on canvas. In 1892 he conducted a
paper knou n as ".Vast's Weekly." started
against the New York police and continued
for the presidential campaign, which con-
tained many of his best effort- of late years,
lie lived at Morristowu. New Jersey, devot-
ing most of his time to painting and contrib-
uting an occasional cartoon to some illus-
trated paper. Socially he enjoyed a wide
popularity: was happy and sanguine in tem-
perament, and always ready with some jest
or witticism, although at bottom more than
ordinarily in earnest. It was the intensity

of his convictions that lent power to his
pencil and made him prominent in all mat-
ters he touched. Among the most treasured
ornaments in his elegant residence was a
splendid silver vase presented to him by the
Union League Club of New York City in
recognition of his services in the Federal
cause ; and another in canteen shape, and
with his portrait crowned in relief, presented
by 3,500 officers and enlisted men in the
United States army and navy. Mr. Nast
was enlisted in the 7th Regiment at the time
of the Orange riots in 1871, and was for
many years a member of the 7th Regiment
Veteran Club; also of the Union League
since 1867, and of the Players since 1889.
He was married. September 20, 1861, to
Sarah, daughter of George and Sarah
( Leach) Edwards, of London, England. He
died in 1902.

ALLEN, William Frederick,

Distinguished Metrologist.

William Frederick Allen was born in
Rordentown, New Jersey, October 9, 1846,
son of Colonel Joseph Warner Allen, a civil
engineer, State Senator, Deputy Quarter-
master-General, and Colonel of the gth New
Jersey Volunteers, who, while serving with
his regiment in Burnside's expedition on
the coast of North Carolina. 1861-62, was
drowned off Hatteras Inlet while endeav-
oring to report to the commanding general
during the storm, January 13, 1862.

William Frederick Allen attended the
Protestant Episcopal Academy in Philadel-
phia. Pennsylvania. In 1862. after his
father's death, he became a rodman on the
Camden & Am boy railroad, and in 1863
was promoted to be assistant engineer. He
engaged in several roads then in course of
'•instruction in New Jersey, and in 1868
was appointed resident engineer of the
West Jersey railroad, and founded the
town of Wenonah, New Jersey. On Oc-
'ober i. 1872. he became assistant editor of
the "Travellers' Official Guide," and in

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May, 1873, vvas made its editor, and busi-
ness manager of the National Railway Pub-
lication Company, then of Philadelphia,
afterwards of New York. In 1875 Mr-
Allen was elected permanent secretary of
the General Time Convention, composed
of the general managers and superintend-
ents of the principal railroad trunk lines,
which then met to determine upon sched-
ules of through trains on the eastern and
western railroads. In the following year
he was elected secretary of the Southern
Time Convention, consisting of representa-
tives of the leading southern railway lines.
These conventions were consolidated in
1886, and from them the American Rail-
way Association developed, and Mr. Allen
became secretary. The adoption of stand-
ard time, based upon the Greenwich mer-
idian, on a detailed plan proposed by him.
was largely due to the efforts of Mr. Allen.
By unanimous resolutions of the conven-
tions, he was accorded their thanks for the
accomplishment of the practical part of the
work which was principally done between
August 15 and November 18. 1883. The
same system was afterwards adopted in
Japan, Australia, Germany, Austria, Swed-
en, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Holland,
Roumania, Servia, and part of Turkey, for
which purpose a large amount of informa-
tion was furnished by Mr. Allen. Mr. Al-
len was appointed by President Arthur one
of the five delegates to represent the United
States at the International Meridian Con-
ference held in Washington in October,
1884. Twenty-five nations were repre-
sented, and the Greenwich meridian was
adopted as the prime meridian and stand-
ard time of reckoning. An address de-
livered by Mr. Allen on "Standard Time as
Adopted in the United States" wa- re-
printed in many languages, with the pro-
ceedings of the conference. On April 22.
1890, he was elected an honorary member
of the K. K. Geographical Society of
Vienna, Austria, in recognition of his ser-
vices in the adoption of standard time. He

was selected as one of eight delegates to
represent the American Railway Associa-
tion at the meeting of the International
Railway Congress held in London, Eng-
land, in June and July, 1895, at which the
railways of thirty-six nations were repre-
sented. He was one of the council of the
American Metrological Society for intro-
ducing the metric system ; a member of the
American Kconomic Society; of the Amer-
ican Society for the Advancement of
Science ; of the American Academy of Poli-
tical and Social Science, and of the Ameri-
can Statistical Association.

BURNS, John,

Civilian Hero of Gettysburg.

John Burns, whose courageous but un-
military conduct at the famous battle of
Gettysburg, in July, 1803, was made the
theme of one of Bret Harte's most stirring
poetical effusions, was a native of New Jer-
sey, born in Burlington, September 5, 1793.
In the War of 1812 with Great Britain, he
was among the earliest volunteers, and in
the battle of Lundy's Lane was of Colonel
Miller's regiment, which turned the tide of
battle in favor of the Americans. He also
>erved in the Mexican War, but record of
his service is not available. In 1861, the
opening year of the Civil War period, not-
withstanding his extreme age of sixty-
eight years, he again volunteered for mili-
tary service, but of course was rejected by
the examining surgeon. However, he se-
cured an engagement as an army teamster,
but when opportunity offered, left his team
and went into the ranks, musket in hand.
When the Confederate troops reached Get-
tysburg, Pennsylvania, in July, 1863, he was
a resident of the place, and occupying the
position of constable. Asserting his posi-
tion as a guardian of the peace, he busied
himself with denouncing the invaders and
ordering them to leave the place, for which
officiousness he was locked up by the Con-
federates in his own calaboose. However,

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In- managed to release himself, and will) a
musket and ammunition taken from a
wounded soldier, kept up a fire against
the enemy during a whole day, only ceas-
ing when he received a wound, was made
prisoner, and narrowly escaped instant exe-
cutioii as a non-uniformed and civilian com-
hatant, who had by his conduct forfeited
his right:- t<> anv consideration. After the
restoration of peace, he made his home on
the battle field and was made a favorite by
visitors, to whom he described the events
in which he had participated, and who re-
warded him with generous liberality. He
was always erratic, possibly illy balanced,
and eventually lost his mind. On one oc-
casion of mental aberration, he wandered to
New York, and one night in December,
1871, was found in the street, almost froz-
en. His identity becoming known, be was
taken in charge, cared for, and when par-
tially recovered was taken to his home in
( i< •ttysburg, where he died, February /, the
following year.

RUMSEY, George Benjamin,

Prominent Financier.

Three generations of the Rumseys have
been connected with the cashier's depart-
ment of the Salem Banking Company, this
service beginning in 1842 with George Clark
Rumsey, who was cashier until his death in
1851. In course of time his son, Henry
Martin Rumsey, came into the bank's ser-
vice, becoming cashier in 1881, an office he
yet holds. In turn, his son, George B.
Rumsey, has maintained a connection with
the bank since 1865 — the Salem National
Hanking Company, became assistant to his
father, and was holding that office at the
time of his death. The record of the first
Rumsey was that he was "one of the most
efficient officers connected with the insti-
tution." Of Henry M. Rumsey it may be
recorded that he is in every way a worthy
successor to his father, and that he has been
a pillar of strength to the institution with

which he has been associated for nearly
half a century. Of George B. Rumsey, of
the third generation, no eulogy is too glow-
ing. He possessed all the graces of mind
and personal characteristics of his sires,
and in the bank was the constant influence
that dispelled clouds and frowns, pouring
oil upon the troubled waters that often
threatened to destroy friendly relations be-
tween bank and customers, his rare tact,
unfailing self control, and kindly words re-
storing confidence and good feeling. Ster-
ling in his integrity, capable in his work.
and thoroughly familiar with every detail
of modern banking, he was a valued assis-
tant to his father, whose increasing years
welcomed the strong support of the son's
devotion. He literally died in the harness,
as but the day previous to his death he had
returned from a meeting of the American
Bankers' Association at Richmond, Vir-
ginia, and the following morning was at his
desk in the bank as usual. A few hours
later his honorable term of fifteen years
service with the bank ended, the last deposit
received, the last check paid, and the ac-
count closed. Grandfather, father, and son
— of these but one remains, Henry M.
Rumsey, who, despite his years, is still the
able, thorough-going cashier and man of
affairs.

George B. Rumsey came of honored an-
cestry, his family dating in Salem county.
New Jersey, from George C. Rumsey,
grandson of Colonel Charles Rumsey, an
officer of the Revolution, from Cecil county,
Maryland. Colonel Charles was a descend-
ant of Charles Rumsey, who came to Amer-
ica from Wales in 1665, landing at Charles-
ton, South Carolina, later visiting and in-
vestigating in New York and Philadelphia,
finally, prior to 1678, choosing a location in
Cecil county, Maryland, at the head of the
Bohemia river. He willed considerable
land to his sons, who continued to reside
in Cecil county. Edward Rumsey, one of
the sons of the founder, was left one hun-
dred acres on the river, and his son. James

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Rumsey, was the inventor of a method of
propelling boats by a stream of water forced
through a cylinder, passing out at the stern
of the boat. He was born at the Bohemia
river farm in 1/43, but at the time of per-
fecting his invention was living in Vir-
ginia. In 1792 he was in London. England,
in the interests of his invention, was there
stricken with apoplexy and died.

The line of descent to George B. Rum-
sey was through William Rumsey, son of
Charles Rumsey, the emigrant from Wales.
William was born April 21, 1698, and be-
came one of the largest landowners of Ce-
cil county, his will distributing about thirty-
five thousand acres to his heirs. His home
on Middle Neck, Cecil county, Maryland,
was one of the finest of colonial mansions,
a massive brick building containing thirty
rooms, and there he dispensed a royal hos-
pitality. He was a noted civil engineer and
surveyor, laid out Fredericktown, located
the temporary boundary line between Mary-
land and Pennsylvania in 1739, and also aid-
ed in other important surveying operations
in Maryland. He was United States Collec-
tor of Customs and one of the leading men
of his section. He married Sabina Blanken-
burg, and at his death in 1742 left sons and
daughters, all generously remembered in his
will.

Colonel Charles Rumsey, son of William
and Sabina (Blankenburg ) Rumsey, was
born at the Cecil county mansion of the
Rumsey s in 1736. He was a leading pub-
lic man of his day, a member of the Coun-
cil in 1775, a member of the Committee of
Safety in 1776, and a colonel of the Elk
Battalion, Cecil County Militia, rendering
important service in field and council. With
the children of Colonel Charles Rumsey, Ce-
cil county ceased to be the family seat. The
name is now almost unknown there, but the
descendants of the Welsh ancestor have
achieved prominence in many other locali-
ties where they have made their homes.
Colonel Charles Rumsey married Abigail
Jane Caner, daughter of Reverend Richard

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and Emma (Oxon) Caner, the former a
clergyman of the Episcopal church in Cecil
county.

Benjamin, son of Colonel Charles Rumsey,
was born in Cecil county, Maryland, Janu-
ary 26, 1772. died April i, 1803. He was
a wealthy landowner and man of prom-
inence. He married Mary, daughter of
George Clark, of Middletown, Delaware.
Children: Charles, Ann Jane, married Ba-
con Ware, George C, and Eliza B.

George Clark, son of Benjamin and Mary
(Clark) Rumsey, was born in Middletown,
Delaware, November 24, 1798, died in Sa-
lem, New Jersey, December 28, 1851. His
early life was spent in Delaware, his early
business life in Salem, where he was a mer-
chant until 1841. Six years prior to that
time he had been elected a director of the
Salem Banking Company, and in the board
had displayed such wisdom and financial
aptitude that in 1842 he was elected cashier
of the bank, serving with the greatest zeal
and ability in that position and as director
until his death. He was a man of wide ex-
perience and sound judgment, qualities that
made him a valuable partner in many busi-
ness enterprises in which he was engaged
outside of the bank. He owned consider-
able land in Salem county, and although
stricken in the prime of life with a fatal
illness accomplished a vast amount of good
in his community. He was an elder of the
First Presbyterian Church of Salem, and
a Whig in politics, having been a Democrat
in early life. He married Margaret Ca-
narroe, born in 1797, died April Q, 1883,
daughter of Antrim and Margaret (Me-
cum) Canarroe, the former a descendant of
Roger and Elizabeth (Stevenson) Canarroe
(originally Conars) who came from Devon-
shire, England, in 1681 and settled in Sa-
lem. Margaret ( Mecum ) Canarroe was a
daughter of William and Eleanor (Sinnick-
son) Mecum. of the ancient Salem county
families of Sinnickson and Mecum, else-
where recorded in this work.

Henry M., only child of George C. and

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Margaret I • 'anarroe i Rumsey, was born in
Salem, New Jersey, August 24, 1838, and
has spent In- years (seventy-seven) in his
native city. Since 1863 lie has been of-
ficially connected with the Salem National
Banking Company, the tirst four years as
director only, then as clerk; from 1871 to
1881 as assistant cashier, and since 1881 as
cashier, his combined -crvices covering near-
ly a half century of banking experience
\\ith the original Salem 1 tanking Company
and the present Salem National Banking
( 'ompany. I le is an elder of the First Pres-
byterian Church, is one of the charter mem-
bers of the New Jersey Society, Sons of the
Revolution, and is one of the valuable men
of his city. He married, November 24,
1859, Maria Elliott, daughter of Benjamin
and Mary Uassett, of Mannington town-
ship. Children: Margaret C, married
Thomas Tatnall, of Wilmington, Delaware;
George Benjamin ; Mary Acton, married
R. Wyatt Wistar. of Salem, New Jersey.
Maria Elliott (Bassett) Rumsey was born
\ugust 22, 1837, died September 6, igio. In
November, 1909, Mr. and Mrs. Rumsey cel-
ebrated the golden anniversary of their wed-
ding day at their Salem home, their many
friends and close relatives joining in felic-
itation and gifts. She was a woman of
sweetness of character, of alert mind, ac-
tive in good works, and greatly beloved.

George Benjamin, only son of Henry M.
and Maria Elliott (Bassett) Rumsey, was
born in Salem, June 7, 1865, died in his na-
tive city, October 16, 1914, after but a few
hours' illness. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools of Salem, and as a voting man
began business life in the service of the Sa-
lem ( HI Cloth Works, a concern with which
lie was associated in responsible position
for fifteen years. Subsequently he was em-
ployed in the office of the Collector of In-
ternal Revenue, at Cnmden, resigning his
position to contract relations with the Salem
National Banking Company, with which
service the family name is conspicuously

connected. He was his father's assistant in
the office of cashier at the time of his death,
energetic, willing, and capable, and the com-
pany feels the loss of a useful member, its
personnel mourning a true friend.

His straightforward, upright life com-
pelled admiration, as a pleasing and agree-
able manner won liking. His influence in
Salem was that which belongs to a life lived
openly and cleanly, dominated by strong
purpose and guided by lofty principle. The
high ideals that he made his aim were
never lowered under trial, and many who
knew him testify to the personal value of
his example and effort. He was a mem-
ber and treasurer of the First Presbyterian
Church, and like his grandfather and father
held the office of ruling elder. His only
public office was that of city treasurer, to
which he was elected as a Republican, a
party he always favored. Among several
other fraternal connections he was a mem-
ber of the Masonic order, and at his death
was treasurer of the Fenwick Club, an of-
fice he had previously held in the Salem
Country Club.

George B. Rumsey married, December
1 8, 1906, Constance, daughter of Constant
M. and Maria H. (Smith) Eakin, who sur-
vives him. a resident of Salem. Children :
Constance Canarroe, born December i,
1907; Eleanor Margaret. January n, 1909;
Alice May Eakin, August 20, 1911. These
children are great-great-great-grandchildren
of Judge William Hancock, who was killed
by the Queen's Rangers, a body of Tories
and British, in the doorway of his own home
at Hancock's Bridge, on the night of March
21. 1778. The memory of those who per-
ished in the massacre at the Hancock house
is fittingly preserved by a memorial tablet
irected by Oak Tree Chapter, D. A. R.,
of Salem, unveiled by Miss Constance D.
Eakin, great-great-granddaughter of Judge
Hancock. June 14, 1903. Judge Hancock
was a grandson of William Hancock, the
founder of the Hancock family in Salem.

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EAKIN, Constant M.,

Financier, Pnblio Official.

Among the Salem lawyers of more than
half a century ago, preeminent place was
accorded Alphonso L. Eakin, who for for-
ty-five years occupied a position at the bar
that was in itself expressive recognition
of exceptionally able talent. Following him
in connection with Salem institutions and
enterprises was Constant M. Eakin, who,
a native of Salem, there passed his entire
life.

It is now more than a quarter of a cen-
tury since Constant M. Eakin followed his
accustomed paths in the place of his birth,
paths that were wider and penetrated into
more activities than many of his contem-
poraries realized. To Constant M. Eakin
fell the misfortune of possessing a physique
that in strength and vigor fell far behind
his mental powers, and he was deprived by
bodily weakness from assuming the place
of leadership in activity among his fellows
to which his capacity of mind and intellect
entitled him. Thus handicapped in his
work of life, he nevertheless made felt a
strong influence, his plans executed by oth-
ers, the deeds he would have done per-
formed by other hands. To the public he
was known through his presidency of the
Salem National Bank and as a silent part-
ner in many other enterprises. In his pub-
lic spirited generosity his means were often
used to carry through periods of financial
uncertainty industrial and commercial con-
cerns whose existence was of benefit to the
city, and all worthy projects in Salem
found in him a friend and supporter. Thus,
though by nature and endowments a leader
and organizer, physical frailties compelled
him to restrain his desires, to conserve his
energy, and to make others his representa-
tives in the fields he could not enter in per-
son. The honor that was accorded him by
those who knew of his private life was as
sincere and enduring as though he had him-
self taken prominence in many fields, and

his aid, suggestions, and encouragement, his
invaluable work as a helper, often told the
true story of success.

Johnson, in his "Historical Account of
the First Settlement of Salem," states that
in 1778 Rev. Samuel Eakin became pastor
of Penn's Neck Presbyterian Church, con-
tinuing until the close of the American Rev-
olution. He was in the opinion of the his-
torian, "raised up especially by Providence
to aid Jerseymen in their exertion to over-
throw the enemies of our country, and was
considered scarcely inferior to the celebrated
Whitfield. He was a true Whig and an ar-
dent defender of the American cause.
Wherever there were military trainings or
an order issued for a detachment of sol-
diers to march he was there if in his power
to be there and address them and by his
most powerful eloquence would rouse their
feelings to the highest pitch. Such was the
inspiring effect of his eloquence operating
upon the passions of the military in so
wonderful a manner that they were ever
ready to lay down their lives for their coun-
try. The soldiers not only loved him but
they idolized him. Such a man was Chap-
lain Samuel Eakin." He was of French
descent and one of a family that later
was prominent in official life in Washing-
ton and of importance in many other com-
munities. He is the first of the family men-
tioned in Salem county records although
the history of that county has been en-
riched by the deeds of his descendants.

Alphonso L. Eakin, father of Constant
M. Eakin, was born in the province of Lor-
raine, France, June 27, 1799, son of Samuel
Eakin, of Mount Holly, New Jersey, who
at the time of the birth of his son was
serving the United States government in
official capacity in Lorraine. After the re-
turn of the family to the United States,
Alphonso L. completed his studies, and
prior to 1822 located in Salem, New Jer-
sey, where he studied law under William
N. Jeffers. He was licensed an attorney in
1822, a counsellor in 1825, and practiced

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law in Salem from his admission to the
bar until his death, October 29, 1866. He
was a very successful lawyer, noted for mi-
nute preparation and careful procedure, and
applied his vast legal learning to his daily
practice in a manner skillful and able. Ac-
curacy of statement, certainty of authority,
and a convincing manner of presentation
were noticeable points in all of his argu-
ments, and he was known widely for his
integrity and uprightness. From under his
tuition there developed several lawyers
whose records were a credit to his teach-
ing, a source of inspiration they gladly ac-
knowledged. Alphonso L. Eakin was a far-
sighted and progressive business man as
well as a lawyer of profound learning, and
during the forty-five years of his practice
in Salem by wise investments accumulated
a fortune. He is buried in the First Pres-
byterian Cemetery, Salem, and his wife,
Eliza, born January 5, 1805, died October
1 6, 1879, lies by his side.

Constant M., son of Alphonso L. and
Eliza Eakin, was born in Salem, New Jer-
sey, June 2, 1843, died there April 26,
1885. He was well educated, and at the
end of his school years began his quiet con-
nection with Salem enterprises. In 1878
he was elected president of the Salem Na-
tional Rank, a position he most capably
filled until his death. He served his city as
a member of council, and in a little noticed,
unobtrusive way aided by influence, voice,
and means all those enterprises that date
from his period. Although a greatly be-
loved member of the Fenwick Club and an
"out-of-town" member of the Philadelphia
Club, he was emphatically a home lover and
there spent his happiest hours. His im-
pulses were noble, and sprang from a heart
full of sympathy and brotherhood. He
was of a sensitive nature, and this, coupled
with a reticent disposition, made him loth
to reveal his true physical condition, the
public not at all understanding his poor
state of health. But he fought the grim
destroyer bravely, and until about three

months before his death was not absent
from his usual pursuits. He is buried in
the family plot in the Presbyterian Ceme-
tery, at Salem, by the side of his honored
father and mother.

Mr. Eakin married Maria H., daughter of
Thomas Smith, who survives him, a resident
of Salem, with her daughters, Constance,
widow of George B. Rumsey, and Eleanor,
unmarried.

MILLER, Jacob W.,

Lawyer, Statesman.

One of the picturesque figures in the
political arena during ante-bellum days
was Jacob W. Miller, the last Whig Sena-
tor from New Jersey. Possessed of very
strong and sincere convictions, he added to
them the greatest industry, complete faith-
fulness to those who depended on him. and
a high degree of tact. Eloquence seemed
to be a family possession in which at least
his brother, William W. Miller, shared in
an unusual degree, since, though he died a
young man, he has left behind him a repu-
tation for eloquence in the New Jersey bar
which perseveres to this day.

Jacob W. Miller was born in 1800, i
German Valley, Morris county, New Jersey,
and received in boyhood an excellent edu-
cation. He determined upon the law as a
profession and studied with his elder
brother, William W. Miller, whose elo-
quence has just been remarked. He was
admitted to the bar, and began at once a
practice which his great ability soon in-
creased to large dimensions. He was for a
time associated in partnership with Ed-
ward W. Whelpley, a brilliant young law-
yer who afterwards became Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

In 1838, Jacob W. Miller was sent to the
State Legislature, where his ability as a
speaker and wisdom as a counsellor were
so conspicuous that the same Legislature
in 1840 elected him to Congress as United
States Senator from New Jersey. Here it

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was that he distinguished himself greatly
by his eloquence and energy. To dis-
tinguish oneself for eloquence in the
United States Senate at that period has an
unusual meaning, when we remember that
there were congregated there Webster,
Clay, Calhoun, and many others whose
names have become immortal for this very
quality. Of this brilliant group Miller
formed one, and he was not unworthy of
his company. It is said that he did not
speak frequently, but was a keen listener
and a great student of every measure in-
troduced into the body, and that, when he
would break his silence, there was no one
listened to with more attention and respect.
He proposed vigorously many new ideas
that were coming to have influence with
the people, and which he regarded as sub-
versive of the sound principles upon
which the government was founded.
Among these was the annexation of Texas,
which act he thought totally at variance
with the spirit of freedom in our institu-
tions. He delivered a most effective address
against the proposal, in which he declared
that if Texas brought with her the riches
of India, he would reject her, and quoted
Aristides' report to Athens upon the strat-
egy of Themistocles : "Nothing could be
more advantageous, but at the same time
nothing could be more unjust." He was
fighting, however, for a lost cause, and in
1855, two years after he had lost his seat
to a Democratic successor, he gave up the
unequal strife. It was not, however, for
lack of faith in his cause, nor its final vic-
tory. He hailed the new Republican party
as the deliverer, and allied himself with it
heart and soul, throwing the whole force
of his character and the whole power of
his eloquence into the cause of the Union.
He spoke and worked indefatigably for
this, his ideal, and, though he could not but
view with apprehension the approaching
conflict, he never for a moment feared for
the final outcome. He foresaw, but was not
permitted to view, the event, as death

claimed him in the year 1862, at his home
in Morristown. In many particulars his
fortune was paralleled by that of his emi-
nent contemporary and fellow statesman,
Theodore Frelinghuysen, whose politics,
like Miller's, were conservative, who also
fought as long as might be with the Whigs,
who finally allied himself with the new Re-
publican party, and fought his best for the
preservation of the Union, and who, like
Miller, was denied the happiness of seeing
the outcome of their efforts, dying, as did
also Miller, in 1862. As an example at
once of Miller's faith and of his eloquence,
the following words from an oration de-
livered in Morristown will serve admir-
ably:

Let us not be moved by the cry of fanatics,
nor alarmed at the threats of secessionists ; they
are as the angry waves which vainly howl about
the battlements and spend their fury upon the
unshaken towers of our political fortress. Poli-
ticians may fret and fume ; State conventions may
resolve and re-resolve ; and Congress itself be-
come the arena of fearful agitations ; but above
and around, as in a mighty amphitheatre, in
undisturbed and undismayed majesty, stands the
American people, with steady eye and giant
hand, overlooking all and governing all ; and
wo ! wo ! to the man, and destruction to the
State, that attempts to resist their supreme au-
thority.

Mr. Miller died in Morristown, Septem-
ber 30. 1862, leaving a widow (a daughter
of George P. Macculloch), and several
children.

DU PONT, Samuel Francis,

Distinguished Naval Officer.

Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont was
born at Bergen Point, New Jersey, Sep-
tember 27, 1803, son of Victor Marie Du
Pont de Nemours. He was appointed a
midshipman in the navy from the State of
Delaware, on December 19, 1815, his first
service being on the "Franklin," in the Eu-
ropean squadron, from which ship he was
transferred to the "Erie" on the same sta-
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ranean, serving for a year on the "Consti-
tution," until ordered home for examina-
tion, after which he was attached to the
"Congress," in the West Indies and on the
coast of Brazil. He was again in the Med-
iterranean in 1824 in the "North Caro-
lina," of which vessel he became sailing
master, four months of this cruise being
^niit on the "Porpoise," to which he was
ordered soon after his promotion as lieu-
tenant. April 28, 1826. Attached to the
"Ontario" in 1829, he made another three
years' cruise in European waters, and from
1835 to 1838 was executive officer of the
"Warren" and of the "Constellation," and
commanded the "Grampus" and the "War-
ren" in the Gulf of Mexico. In September
of the latter year he joined the "Ohio,"
flagship of Commodore Hull in the Medi-
terranean squadron, his cruise ending in
1841. Promoted commander in 1842 he
sailed for China in the "Perry," but a se-
vere illness forced him to give up his com-
mand and return home. In 1849 ne was
ordered to the Pacific as commander of the
"Congress," the flagship of Commodore
Stockton.

The Mexican War had begun when the
ship arrived in California, and Du Pont
was assigned to the command of the "Cy-
ane," July 23, 1846. With this vessel he
captured San Diego, took possession of La
Paz, the capital of Lower California, spiked
the guns of San Bias, and entered the har-
bar of Guaymas, burning two gunboats and
cutting out a Mexican brig under a heavy
fire. These operations cleared the Gulf of
California of hostile vessels, some thirty of
which were taken or destroyed. He took
part in the capture of Mazatlan under Com-
modore Shtihrick. November 1 1, 1847, lead-
ing the line of boats which entered the main
harbor. On February 15, 1848. Du Pont
lauded at San Jose with a naval force and
engaged a large body of Mexicans, march-
ing three miles inland and successfully re-
lieving Lieutenant Heywood's detachment,
closely besieged in the Mission House and

about to surrender. Later he led or sent
out various expeditions into the interior
which cooperated with Colonel Burton and
Lieutenant (afterward General) Halleck,
who were moving southward, clearing the
country of hostile troops and taking many
prisoners. Ordered home in 1848, he be-
came captain in 1855, and two years later
went on special service to China in com-
mand of the "Minnesota," witnessing while
there the naval operations of the French
and English forces, notably their capture
of the Chinese forts on the Peiho. After
visiting Japan. India and Arabia, he re-
turned with his ship to Boston, in May,

1859.

Placed in command of the Philadelphia
Navy Yard on December 31, 1860, he took,
on his own responsibility, the most prompt
and energetic measures, when the Civil
War opened in 1861. When communica-
tion with Washington was cut off, he sent
a naval force to the Chesapeake to protect
the landing of troops at Annapolis. In
June, 1861. he was made president of a
board which convened at Washington to
elaborate a general plan of naval operations
against the Confederate States. Appointed
flag officer in September, he led the expedi-
tion which sailed from Norfolk in the fol-
lowing month, no American officer having
before commanded so large a fleet. On
November "j he successfully attacked the
strong fortifications defending Port Royal
harbor. Ably planned and skillfully exe-
cuted, this engagement is justly regarded
as one of the most brilliant achievements of
our navy. His unarmored vessels, divided
into main and flanking divisions, steamed
into the harbor in two parallel columns.
The flanking division, after engaging the
smaller fort and drawing back the enemy's
vessels, took position to enfilade the princi-
pal work, before which the main column, led
by the flagship "Wabash." passed and re-
passed in elliptical course, its tremendous
fire inflicting heavy damage. Although the
casualties during the engagement were in-

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considerable, its importance is not to be
'measured by the small number of killed
and wounded — indicative, in this case, of
the professional ability and tactical skill
with which the victory was won. The bat-
tle of Port Royal, occurring a little less
than seven months after the fall of Fort
Sumter, was of surpassing value in its mor-
al and political effect, both at home and
abroad. It gave us one of the finest har-
bors on the Atlantic seaboard, which af-
forded an admirable base for future opera-
tions by the establishment of coaling sta-
tions, shops and supply depots. Du Pont
actively followed up his victory ; Tybee Is-
land was seized, giving a foothold for the
reduction of Fort Pulaski by the army ; a
combined naval and military force destroyed
the batteries at Port Royal ferry ; the
sounds and inland waters of Georgia and
the east coast of Florida were occupied ; St.
Mary's, Fernandina, Jacksonville, and other
places were captured, and Fort Clinch and
the fort at St. Augustine retaken ; fourteen
blockading stations were established, all
thoroughly effective save that off Charles-
ton, where the vessels at command were in-
sufficient to cover the circuit of twenty-
three miles. In recognition of his services,
Du Pont received the thanks of Congress
and was appointed rear-admiral to rank
from July 16, 1862. Toward the close of
the year, several armored vessels were
added to his command, mostly of the mon-
itor type — one of which destroyed the Con-
federate steamer "Nashville." when aground
near Fort McAllister, Georgia. Desiring to
measure the ironclads against forts com-
manding obstructed channels. Admiral Du
Pont sent three monitors, supported by six
other ships, to engage Fort McAllister, upon
which they were unable to make any im-
pression on account of the small number of
their guns and the slowness of their fire.
This satisfied the admiral that their offen-
sive power had been overrated, and he re-
ported to the Navy Department that what-

ever degree of impenetrability monitors
might have, there was no corresponding.
i|ti;ility of destructiveness as against forts.
On April 7, 1863, Du Pont, taking command
of his nine armored vessels, made a resolute
attempt to take Charleston. Unable to
manoeuvre in the tortuous channel leading
to the harbor, which was filled with obstruc-
tions and torpedoes, the ironclads were ex-
posed to a terrible cross-fire from a hun-
dred guns of the heaviest calibres. His
flagship, the "Ironsides," which was lead-
ing, steered so badly under the influence of
the current that it was twice necessary to
drop anchors to bring her head to the prop-
er direction, and when within fifteen hun-
dred yards or less of Fort Sumter she lay
for a considerable time directly over a huge
torpedo, which, fortunately for those on
board, the electrician at Battery Wagner
was unable to explode. Darkness approach-
ing, the ships were withdrawn with the in-
tention of continuing the engagement on the
following day, but when morning came, one
of the ironclads having foundered from in-
juries received during the engagement ( in
which she was struck ninety times), and
five others being wholly or partially dis-
abled (many of them having received over
fifty shots). Admiral Du Pont wisely de-
termined not to invite a great disaster by a
renewal of the attack. The action was
fought in pursuance of express instruc-
tions from the Navy Department, its prob-
able results not having been unforeseen by
the admiral who had given it as his opinion
that the co-operation of troops was neces-
sary to success. Time has confirmed the
absolute correctness of Du Pont's judg-
ment ; his able successor, with a larger force
of armored ships, was no more fortunate,
and Charleston only fell upon the approach
of Sherman's army. In June the ironclad
ram "Atlanta" came out of Savannah, and
Du Pont sent two monitors to intercept her.
one of which, under Commodore Rogers,
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engagement. This was the last important
incident of Admiral Du Font's command,
from which he was relieved, July 5, 1863.
During the intervals of more than twenty-
five years of service at sea, he was almost
constantly employed on duties of import-
ance, and was conspicuous in the improve-
ment and development of the navy. A mem-
ber of the board which drew up the plan of
reorganization of the Xaval Academy, he
was one of the officers who afterward re-
vised and extended the system then adopt-
ed. He served on the lighthouse board, took
part in two revisions of the rules and regu-
lations for the navy and was a very prom-
inent member of the Xaval Retiring Board
of 1X55. lie was also the author of vari-
ous papers on professional subjects; among
others, one on corporal punishment in the
navy, and one on the use of floating bat-
teries for coast defense, which has since
been republished and is largely quoted from
by Sir Howard Douglas in his work on
naval gunnery. In 1833 Admiral Du Pont
married his cousin, Sophie Madeleine Du
1'ont, who survived him. He died at Phil-
adelphia, Pennsylvania, June 23, 1865. In
1882 Congress enacted that the circle at the
intersection of Massachusetts and Connec-
ticut avenues in the city of Washington
should be called "Du Pont Circle," and by
subsequent legislation provided for the erec-
tion there of a bronze statue of Rear-Ad-
miral Du Pont. This lasting monument to
his fame and memory was completed in
1884.

QUINBY. James M.,

Manufacturer. Progressive Citizen.

James Moses Ouinby, son of Jotham
and I.illias (Smith) Quinby, was born in
Orange, New Jersey, October 5, 1804. died
in Newark. July 20, 1874. The Quinby
family are believed to have come into Eng-
land with the Danes, the first of record
being in Yorkshire, 1341, by name Hugh
de Quarniby. The arms of the family are:

Argent, two bars sable in chief, a Cornish
chough proper. Crest : A Cornish chough
armed.

The American line of descent is through
Thomas Quinby. who landed in Salem,
Massachusetts, 1643-46 ; his son Robert, a
ship carpenter, of record in Norfolk coun-
ty, Massachusetts ; his son William, one of
the founders of Stratford, Connecticut;
his son John, a proprietor of New Castle,
Westchester county, New York, and ap-
pointed a magistrate by Governor Stuyves-
ant, 1662 ; his son, Josiah ; his son Josiah
(2), born in 1692; his son Josiah (3),
settled in Orange, New Jersey, about 1746,
a large land owner and farmer, at what is
now Llewellyn Park : his son Moses ; his
son Jotham, who resided in a stone house
on Scotland street, South Orange, tearing
down the old house and using the stone for
the basement walls of a new residence.

James Moses Ouinby, after completing
his years of apprenticeship at the carriage-
maker's trade with John C. Hedenberg,
entered the employ of G. & A. K. Carter, a
noted early Newark carriage building firm,
and became foreman of their shop, so
skilled a workman and so capable a man-
ager was he. In 1834 the Carters failed in
business, when, to save himself, Mr. Quin-
by purchased the plant and continued bus-
iness on his own account, later admitting
as partners George M. Spencer, his book-
keeper, and Isaac Young, his foreman, and
establishing the young firm of J. M. Quin-
by & Company, now the veteran firm of
the same name, J. M. Quinby & Company,
although twentieth century invention has
largely changed the character of the busi-
ness. The Ouinby carriage became a local
favorite, then business was extended
throughout the south, and a local branch
factory and repository established at
Montgomery, Alabama. For forty years
Mr. Ouinby manufactured carriages in
Newark, his shops and yards located or
Broad street, between Mechanic and Fa.<-
streets, where the station and freight sheds

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of the Newark & New York railroad now
stand. He continued in successful business
until his death in 1874, and it was largely
owing to the excellence of the carriages
manufactured under his supervision that
Newark-made carriages became famous
through the United States, their fame also
extending to Europe. He was interested
in many Newark business enterprises, one
being the Newark Savings Institution, of
which he was the original manager, and
chairman of the funding committee ; and
another, the New Jersey Fire Insurance
Company. He was a devoted churchman,
a prominent member of Trinity Protestant
Episcopal Church, and for many years a
vestryman. Politically he was an old time
Whig, and if he had a hobby it was his
love for political work and management.
He was always present and active at pri-
mary elections ; was invariably a delegate
to important State and County Conven-
tions, and was a potent force in making
nominations. When the death knell of the
old Whig party sounded, he was not one
of the mourners, having actively embraced
the cause of the first candidate of the new
Republican party in 1856, General John C.
Fremont. He advocated Republican prin-
ciples with all the intensity of his strong
nature, and in so doing sacrificed a for-
tune, through incurring the bitter enmity
of his large army of patrons in the south.
This was not an incident of the war, but a
proposition put squarely before him to ac-
cept or reject. In 1860 several Southern
States passed laws requiring Northern men
doing business in the South to renounce the
avowed anti-slavery principles of the Re-
publican party under the penalty of having
their property within these States forfeit-
ed. Mr. Quinby refused to comply, and
this refusal caused him great loss. He was
one the fathers of the party in Newark
and in New Jersey, and was one of its hon-
ored heads for many years. He was one
of the first State Senators elected by the
party from Essex county, and one of the

first in the State, serving in 1860-62. He
had previously, in 1851, been elected
Mayor of Newark by the Whigs, serving
until 1854, being twice re-elected, the ten-
ure of the office being one year, and no
salary being attached to the office. He is
further remembered as a member of the
old Volunteer Fire Department, in which
he took a deep interest. He gave the city
a good business administration and retired
from office, honored and respected, even
by his political foes. He also was a mem-
ber of the board of water commissioners.
He was a man of pleasing personality, un-
assuming and modest, a true soldier of the
"common good", aiding whenever and
wherever he could to advance the public
welfare.

He married Phoebe Ayres, daughter of
Richard and Hannah (Hays) Sweazy, a de-
scendant of Samuel Sweazy, of Southold,
Long Island, and Roxbury, Massachusetts,
born March 29, 1689, died May n, 1759.
Children of James M. Quinby: i. Annie
Emeline, deceased, married, in 1865, Nel-
son Wright, and had children, Albert Wa-
terman, deceased, Louisa Elise, married
Arthur H. Mackie, and has children, Eliz-
abeth Quinby, and Nelson Wright Mackie.

2. Marie Antoinette, born in Park Place,
Newark, in 1846, and died there after a
long illness, March 7. 1909. She was a
graduate of Saint Mary's School, Burling-
ton, New Jersey, beautiful in person, with
a cultured mind, and was a leader in soci-
ety until her retirement through ill health.
Intense patriotism was her ruling passion,
and with all her powers of mind even
at personal sacrifice, she aided many a
good cause. She inherited her father's
wise executive ability, and using her in-
fluence for good, she accomplished much
for the betterment of those she aimed to
help. Not only did she work through
local channels, but at the time of the
war with Spain, she exerted herself per-
sonally, leading with others in outfitting
the hospital ship "Solace", also spending

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days and night;- at the railroad station
assisting the returning soldiers who
through sickness or wounds needed aid.
She was the organizer of section n, Army
and Navy Relief Society, and its only pres-
ident. In 1892 she was appointed by the
State authorities to represent New Jersey
in the interest of women at the World's
Fair ; was for many years a member of the
board of managers of the Colonial Dames ;
was a member of Trent Chapter, Daugh-
of the American Revolution; was
founder of the Woman's Branch of the
New Jersey Historical Society, and presi-
dent from its organization, devoting a
great deal of time to its upbuilding. While
this was her more conspicuous work, she
did a great of benevolent work privately,
and was aKo manager on the boards of
••(veral charitable organizations. Her life
was a full and beautiful one, bringing the
sweet reward of duty well performed, and
the society of many kindred spirits, who
knew her intimately and most truly loved
and revered her. Her influence was most
blessed, and the inspiration of her life is
yet felt among those she cheered, encour-
aged and led in good works during her
ytars on earth, all too short, yet wonder-
fully fruitful and helpful to others.

3. James Milnor, the only son of James
M. Ouinby to arrive at years of manhood,
married Mary V. Casey. 4. Ida, married
Wallace Mcllvaine Scudder. Other chil-
dren, deceased, are : Eliza Sweazy, mar-
ried Charles Borcherling ; Morris, died
youiiL; : \Valden, died young; Florence, died
young.

STEPHENS, John Lloyd,

Noted Trareler and Author.

This noted man was a native of New
Jersey, born in Shrewsbury, November 28,
1805. He graduated from Columbia Col-
lege at the age of seventeen, studied law in
Litchfiekl. Connecticut, and in New York
City, and entered upon practice in the lat-

ter place. He took considerable interest in
politics, and gained some fame as a Tam-
many Hall campaign orator. In 1834 he
went abroad, and was absent for two years,
traveling through the southern and eastern
parts of Europe, writing under engagement
for "Hoffman's Monthly Magazine," his
papers meeting with such favor that they
were subsequently expanded into four
volumes — "Incidents of Travel in Egypt,
Arabia, Petrae and the Holy Land" (.1837),
and "In Greece, Turkey, Russia and Po-
land" (1838), and both of which were wide-
ly circulated in Great Britain as well as in
the United States.

In 1839 President Van Buren sent him on
a semi-confidential commission to Central
America, which was barren of results, the
country being amid all the confusion of civil
\\ar and an overthrow of the existing gov-
ernment. However, he improved his op-
portunities, and in company with F.
Catherwood, an English artist, visited
the ruins of Cpan, Palenque, Axmal,
etc., making notes and drawings of the
remains of former empires of which
little was then known. These ex-
plorations resulted in his most important
work. "Incidents of Travel in Central Amer-
ica, Chiapas and Yucatan," in two volumes,
published in 1841. In company with Mr.
Catherwood, whose illustrations added much
tn the value of that work, and with more
ample equipment for archaeological re-
search, he made another survey of substan-
tially the same ground, and in 1843 issued
a two volume work entitled ''Incidents of
Travel in Yucatan." These works were
most opportune, and he gained and long
held the distinction of making the best and
most ample contribution to the American
knowledge of antiquities in those regions.

In 1846 Mr. Stephens was a member of
the New York Constitutional Convention.
In the following year he was active in the
organization of the first ocean steam navi-
gation company, in which he held an of-
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Bremen in the first vessel of the line. The
gold discoveries in California pointed to the
necessity for a railroad across the Isthmus
of Panama ; he entered into this project
with his accustomed enthusiasm, became
vice-president and then president of the
projecting company, and after personally
surveying the route, visited Bogota and
negotiated a contract with the New Gran-
ada government, completing all these ar-
rangements within the year 1849. During
the following two years he was constantly
engaged in superintending the work of con-
struction, but fell victim to the insidious
malaria of the Panama region, contracting
the disease which caused his death, in New
York, October 10, 1852, thus ending all too
soon a life of phenomenal activity and em-
inent success. His memory is preserved in
a monument erected at the highest point
reached by the Panama railroad.

ROEBLING. John A.,

Distinguished Civil Engineer.

John A. Roebling was one of the world's
most famous civil engineers of his day, par-
ticularly famous as a projector and builder
of wire bridges, and whose principal monu-
ments are the great suspension bridges at
Niagara Falls, and that over the East river,
connecting the cities of New York and
Brooklyn.

Mr. Roebling was a native of Prussia,
born in the city of Mulhausen, province of
Thuringia, July 12, 1806. He received a
thorough academical education, and then
entered the Royal Polytechnic School in
Berlin, from which he was graduated as a
civil engineer. It is a noteworthy fact that
during his student days he devoted much of
his attention to the construction of suspen-
sion bridges, and made his investigations and
theories the subject of his graduating thesis,
a paper which attracted much attention,
and no little adverse criticism on account
of hi? venturing upon what was then con-
sidered an impracticable innovation. In

compliance with the stern requirements of
the Prussian y< vernment, he served upon
public works for three years following his
graduation.

lie came to the United States at the age
of twenty-five, and located near Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. At this time engineering ef-
fort was largely devoted to the improve-
ment of inland transportation by means of
a system of canals and slack-water naviga-
tion on the rivers. Mr. Roebling directed his
attention to this subject, and lie began his
labors on the Beaver river, a tributary of
the Ohio. He subsequently became inter-
ested in a project for navigable water con-
nection between the Ohio river and Lake
Erie, but the project was abandoned be-
cause of the competition set in operation
by the extensive building of railroads then
begun. For a time Mr. Roebling was en-
gaged in the service of the State of Penn-
sylvania in the location of a feeder for the
Pennsylvania canal in the upper Allegheny
river, and he was subsequently occupied
surveying and locating the route of the
Pennsylvania Central railway from Harris-
burg across the mountains to Pittsburgh.

It was about this time that Mr. Roeb-
ling began to give his attention particularly
to that department of engineering which
soon made his name famous throughout the
world. As early as 1844-1845 he had suc-
cessfully constructed an aqueduct across the
Allegheny river, on the principle of a
suspension bridge with wire cables, encoun-
tering from its beginning to its completion
and successful inauguration the determined
opposition and contemptuous opprobrium of
the engineering profession. During his res-
idence in Pittsburgh he engaged in the man-
ufacture of iron and steel wire, and there
developed his wonderful knowledge of the
nature and capabilities of wire which proved
so important a factor in enabling him to
work a revolution in bridge construction.
His success in the aqueduct project instilled
confidence, and to him was committed the
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the M'inorigahela river at Pittsburgh, and
IK- followed its successful completion with
the building of four of the suspended aque-
ducts for the- Delaware canal. He then (in
1851 ) began the building of the great rail-
road bridge over the Niagara river, and
which at the time of its completion at-
tracted the admiration and astonishment of
the engineering talent of Europe as well as
of America, as the longest suspension bridge
in the world. This he followed equally suc-
cessfully with the suspension bridge over
the Allegheny river at Pittsburgh, and that
over the Ohio river at Cincinnati, the lat-
ter, with a span of nearly two hundred feet
greater length than that of the Niagara
river bridge, marking another great advance
step in the science of bridge building. The
excellence of the Ohio river structure im-
pressed upon engineers throughout the
country the conviction that the problem of
bridge construction had been solved and
had much to do in pointing to Mr.
Roebling as the chief engineer of the great
Brooklyn-New York bridge.

The building of a bridge over the East
river to connect Brooklyn with New York,
had been suggested shortly after Mr. Roeb-
ling had built his first bridge at Pittsburgh,
but did not pass the stage of discussion in
the newspapers, and for years the project
had passed out of sight. Its resurrection
was in all probability due to Mr. Roebling
more than to any other. It is a well au-
thenticated fact that in February, 1853, lle
had an unpleasant experience on a ferry
boat in the ice-choked East river, which
caused him to take a personal interest in the
necessity for a bridge, and he published a
letter setting forth the feasibility of such
an undertaking. However, it was difficult
to make a beginning, and eleven years were
to pass before a legislative commission was
appointed (in 1864) to examine into and
report upon the expediency and practicabiW
ity of a bridge, and a building company was
not organized until 1867. On May 23d of
that year, and one month after the passage

of the act of incorporation, Mr. Roebling
was appointed engineer. He completed his
report of survey, plans and estimates, on
September 1st following. The incorpora-
tors, after a careful examination, expressed
entire confidence in Mr. Roebling's judg-
ment, experience and ability ; yet, in view
of uncertainty and opposition on the part of
various elements of the public, deemed it
advisable to call in a board of consulting
engineers, composed of Horatio G. Allen,
of New York; Alfred W. Craven, engineer
of the Croton Aqueduct ; H. B. Latrobe,
builder and chief engineer of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, and chief engineer of
the Reading railroad ; James P. Kirkwood,
W. J. McAlpine, John J. Serrell, and Col-
onel Julius W. Adams. This board devoted
nearly five months to an exhaustive study
of Mr. Roebling's plans, and at the close
of their labors reported favorably upon
them in every respect. Meantime, in order
to safeguard marine interests under the pro-
visions of existing Acts of Congress, the
\Var Department appointed a commission
of United States Engineers — Major Gen-
eral Horatio G. Wright, Major General John
Newton and Major Wright — to ascertain
whether or not the proposed b;-'dge would
be a menace to navigation. The commis-
sion carefully viewed the bridges at Pitts-
burgh, Niagara, Cincinnati, and elsewhere,
critically examined Mr. Roebling's plans,
and in its report gave cordial and apprecia-
tive endorsement and approval, except in a
single particular — recommending that the
height of the central span be 135 feet above
the middle of the river, instead of 130 feet,
as proposed. No man could have had
ampler appreciation than came to Mr. Roeb-
ling from these two boards of exacting
scientists — the incorporators' committee
and the government commission.

It is reasonable to believe, in view of the
magnitude of his labors and his advanced
age, that Mr. Roebling expected the Brook-
lyn bridge to be the crowning achievement
of his long and useful career. And, in

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larger way, such it was, though he was not
destined to witness much more than its be-
ginning. In the summer in which the work
on the bridge was begun (1869), while en-
gaged in determining the location of the
bridge tower on the Brooklyn side of East
river, he experienced an accident which re-
sulted in his death. A ferry boat entering
its slip dislodged the timbers upon which
he was standing, in such manner as to catch
and crush his foot, and sixteen days later
he died, lockjaw having set in. His un-
timely loss was severely felt, and the tri-
butes to his memory were fervent and sin-
cere, from press and pulpit, from municipal
and scientific bodies, and from the general
public. The mechanical bent of his mind
was such that exactness was his cardinal
principle, and he was most exacting in all
professional matters, toward himself as well
as towards his colaborers. At the same time
he was of kindly and benevolent disposi-
tion, and in his family and social relations
he was most lovable. He held to the loftiest
ideals of personal and civic life, and during
the Civil War was one of the staunchest
upholders of the Union cause.

ZABRISKIE, Hon. Abraham O.,

Lawyer, Jurist. Legislator.

Hon. Abraham O. Zabriskie, LL.D., was
born June 10, 1807, in the then village of
Greenbush, opposite Albany, in the State
of New York. When he was four years old
his parents removed to Millstone. New Jer-
sey. There he received a thorough academ-
ical education, and subsequently matricu-
lated at Nassau Hall, Princeton, becoming
a member of the junior class when only
sixteen years of age, and graduating two
years later, with the class of 1825. In the
same year he commenced the study of law
in the office of James S. Green, of Prince-
ton, and was licensed as an attorney in No-
vember, 1828, being admitted as counsel-
lor-at-law in 1831.

Selecting Newark as his field of practice,

he remained there less than two year.-., then
removed to Hackensack, where he remained
nineteen years. Here he was thrown among
a quiet agricultural population, where lie
gradually matured his. intellectual powers,
and gathered strength which lasted during
life. He gained the confidence of the peo-
ple, and they in turn trusted him as they
never had trusted anyone before. In 1838
he was appointed surrogate of Bergen coun-
ty, and five years later was reappointed,
holding that position for a period of ten
years. During his incumbency he not only
accurately learned how to frame the state-
ments of executors and administrators, but
he acquired a full knowledge of the history
of ecclesiastical law, as pertaining to the
estates of decedents, which made his coun-
sels valuable in his after life. During his
administration of this office he evinced a
method and accuracy which distinguished
his life, and the discipline and care about
minute details that he acquired in this posi-
tion lasted him ever afterward. There was
no man in the profession, in litigated causes
in the Orphans' Court or the Prerogative
Court, whose services were more valuable
than his. In 1842 he was appointed Prose-
cutor of the Pleas for Bergen county, and
in this position he became master of the
principles of the criminal law, so that no
one who was really guilty of its infraction
ever went unpunished for lack of effort on
his part. He was so especially noted for
his success in practice of this kind that he
was frequently called upon at later dates
both to prosecute and defend in criminal
causes. During his residence in Bergen
county he was retained as counsel in many
cases before the civil courts, and especially
in those involving questions of titles to
lands. By this means he became thoroughly
familiar with the duties of a practical sur-
veyor, and also with the proprietary history
of New Jersey, and understood every pat-
ent in the old "Field Book of Bergen Coun-
ty," and the common lands assigned to each
patent. He was regarded by the legal fra-

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ternity a^ a most formidable adversary in
all those cases where the title to land was
involved. Having been a practitioner in the
Supreme Court for some years, during
which period he had been noted for his
thorough research and capacity for patient
labor, he was named Reporter for that tri-
bunal, and held that position until 1855.
He removed from Hackensack in 1849, a°d
selected Jersey City as his future, and, as
it proved, his final residence. To the peo-
ple of this county he was no stranger, for
Hudson county had been until 1840 a por-
tion of the county of Bergen, of which lat-
ter Hackensack was the shire town.

In 1850 he was nominated for the State
Senate and elected, his term of service in-
cluding the years 1851, 1852 and 1853.
While a member of that body he took an
important part in legislation, and came in
personal contact with many leading men in
the State, which proved of great benefit to
him afterward. He was also one of the
committee of citizens who framed the vo-
luminous charter of Jersey City, passed
March 18, 1851, some of its provisions be-
ing drafted by him. During his senatorial
career he was the means of having a good
and sufficient lien law and also the "wharf
act" passed. He was the author of the
"Long Dock Charter,'' which became a law
in February, 1856, by which means the com-
pany bearing that cognomen were enabled
to provide the necessary means to bring the
NYw York & Erie railroad to their new
terminus in Jersey City. During the same
year he was elected a director of the New
Jersey Railroad and Transportation Com-
pany, and held that position until he was
made Chancellor, ten years afterward. He
soon became master of the situation, thor-
oughly conversant with all the affairs of
the company, not only as regarded the road
but the rolling stock, the workshops, and
the multifarious data of so large a con-
cern. He was nominated, in 1850. by Gov-
ernor Newell for the office of Chancellor
of the State, but as the Senate was polit-

ically opposed to the Governor, it declined
to confirm him, and the memorable strug-
gle commenced which left the State for a
year without a Chancellor. At the next
election Charles S. Olden was chosen Gov-
ernor, but again the Senate was opposed to
him; and as he deemed that the interests of
the State required that his name should
not be submitted to the Senate — although he
was his first choice — another was named for
the position. He was finally nominated by
Governor Ward, in 1866, and confirmed by
the Senate, and became Chancellor, May I,
1866. He performed the arduous duties of
Chancellor with a promptness which has
never been surpassed by any other officer
who had held that position. During his ad-
ministration business had greatly increased,
yet no cause was allowed to linger by rea-
son of a want of time for his examination
and decision. And these decisions betoken
a positive and independent mind, manifest-
ing great labor and research, and have es-
tablished for him an enduring fame as a
jurist. About the period when the great
monopoly, as it was justly termed, was
about to cease its arrogant demands, it was
rumored that it sought an extension of
twenty years, commencing January I, 1869,
and much discussion prevailed throughout
the State. At this juncture a public meet-
ing was held in Jersey City to oppose the
renewal of these monopoly privileges, when
Chancellor Zabriskie made a speech taking
strong ground against the renewal, and de-
clared that, rather than have so odious a
contract perpetuated, the people should,
with pick-axe in hand, tear up the rails.
For this expression of public indignation
he earned the soubriquet of "Captain of the
Pick-axe Guard." But the independent por-
tion of the community sustained his earnest
declaration, and the State was relieved of
the obnoxious restriction. He repeated his
speech before a committee of the Legisla-
ture at Trenton, and the monopoly exten-
sion scheme was dead. It was the crown-
ing act of his life to defeat this giant cor-

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poration, and the result is seen already in
the free railroad law of the State. He was
in all respects a most successful man. His
practice was large and lucrative, whereby
he was enabled to gain an ample com-
petence. As a lawyer, his learning was
great and varied, as already detailed ; and
of his ability as a judge all of his com-
peers bear full witness. He was regarded
by business men as eminently sagacious in
the management of affairs ; and in these
particulars not only was his advice sought
for, but he was chosen to fill many posi-
tions of trust in various institutions. He
was, as already stated, one of the director s
of the New Jersey railroad, and held the
same position in a bank, a life insurance
and trust company, and in the Jersey City
Gas Company ; also as a trustee of the old
Jersey City Savings Bank, besides in sun-
dry other institutions. When engaged in
business he gave his whole attention to the
matter before him ; and when his labors
were over he sought recreation. During his
life he was somewhat of a traveller, and
more than once visited the "old world."
Here again his methodical spirit asserted
itself; for not only was the day of his de-
parture fixed upon, but all the minutiae of
his travels abroad were predetermined be-
fore he left his home, and the day of his
return thither indicated. He also journeyed
through a greater portion of the Union at
various times, and he always adhered to
the plan which he marked out to pursue.
After his term as Chancellor expired he de-
sired to visit the Pacific states, and in com-
pany with a friend set out upon what proved
to be his last journey on earth. Together
they passed from the East to the West, over
the great iron highway that binds the At-
lantic and Pacific shores of the imperial
republic in an unbroken link, passing over
the fertile fields, the boundless prairies, the
extended plains, the Rocky Mountains, and
the dreary wastes of the great basin inter-
vening between this rocky barrier and the
Sierra Nevada, into the golden State and

to the shores of the Pacific. After being
impressed with the glories of the most sub-
lime natural scenery on the continent they
retraced their steps, and upon their home-
ward way he was suddenly stricken by a
sickness which proved mortal. He had
been reared in the doctrines of the Re-
formed Dutch church, and although he had
never become a communicant member of
that denomination, he was essentially a
Christian man. He was a most charitable
man, and never wearied in doing kind-
nesses; and he was also a most conscien-
tious man, for he took pains to know his
duty, and when known he faithfully dis-
charged it. He was a most diligent student,
not only well read in law, but in history,
the natural sciences, anatomy, medicine and
theology ; and what he studied at all was
thoroughly studied. He died at Truckee,
California, June 27, 1873, and the news of
his decease, transmitted by telegraph, pro-
duced a most profound impression through-
out the State, calling forth eulogia upon
his fame, not only as a lawyer, Senator,
jurist and Chancellor, but also as a private
citizen, a neighbor and a friend.

FORT, George Franklin,

Governor, Masonic 'Writer.

Governor George Franklin Fort was
born in Pemberton, Burlington county,
New Jersey, in May. 1809. After receiv-
ing an ordinary education in the common
schools at his home and in that neighbor-
hood, he entered the Medical Department
of the University, from which he was gradu-
ated with the degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine in 1830. the year in which he attained
his majority. He entered upon practice,
and with a degree of success which held
out before him most promising prospects,
but he became interested in politics, which,
with the duties of the public positions to
which he was called by reason of his polit-
ical activity, commanded his attention
throughout the remainder of his life.

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IK- served i«r some time as a represen-
tative from Mi.nmouth county in the State
Assembly. He was a useful member of
ili<- convention of 1844, called to frame a
new State Constitution, and soon after that
body had completed its labors, he was elec-
led to the Stair Senate. In 1850 he be-
came Governor of New Jersey, and served
until the completion of hi> term in 1854.
lie was almost immediately appointed to a
eat in the Court of Errors and Appeals,
and also served as a member of the Prison
Reform Commission, and also held other
offices at various times. While educated
for the medical profession, by private
reading he had gained a very fair knowl-
edge of law, and he was found wanting in
no position to which he was called. He
was deeply interested in Masonry, ami in
1875 published in Philadelphia a volume
entitled "Early History and Antiquities
of Freemasonry." In 1847 ne received
from the College of New Jersey the hon-
i irary degree of Master of Arts. He died
in New Egypt, New Jersey, April 22, 1872.

PEDDIE, Thomas Baldwin,

Man of Affairs. Statesman, Philanthropist.

Thomas Baldwin Peddie was one of the
most progressive and public spirited citi-
zens of Newark. New Jersey, and may
justly be credited with a large share of
those activities which have, within recent
years, placed the city in the forefront of
American industrial centers. Himself a
typical example of the keen and large
minded business man who carries the
weight of affairs of the utmost importance,
he was ever ready to undertake another
burden, if by so doing he might by deed or
example benefit or further any movement
pointing towards the betterment of indus-
trial or municipal conditions.

Thomas Baldwin Peddie was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1808, and there re-
ceived a substantial and practical educa-
tion. To this he added largely by means

of home study and the use of his keen
powers of observation, which made of him
a man of fine executive ability and an ex-
cellent judge of human nature. An earnest
reader from his earliest years, he was
chiefly attracted by books of travel, and
these inspired him with the idea of visiting
America, as offering finer prospect for ad-
vancement than the Old World had to
offer. When he came to the United States
in 1833 he had no fixed plans as to his fu-
ture line of conduct. Had he been dis-
appointed in conditions here, at that time,
this country would probably never have
had the benefit of his wise counsel and en-
terprise during the many years he remain-
ed a resident here. Upon his arrival he
went at once to the City of Newark, New-
Jersey, as a fitting place for the carrying
out of the plans he had already partly
formulated. He became immediately
identified with the manufacturing interests
of the city, in that he visited factories of
various kinds, and finally applied for a
position in the manufacturing establish-
ment of Smith & Wright, manufacturers
of saddlery. Himself was his best and
only recommendation, and this sufficed to
obtain the position he was seeking, and
two years were spent in this factory during
which Mr. Peddie acquired a thorough
mastery of the business customs in vogue
here. He then established himself inde-
pendently in the manufacture of leather
trunks and carpet bags, commencing on a
small scale, and during the ten years which
followed his efforts were attended with
such an amount of success that at last he
found himself unable to take care of his
growing responsibilities alone. According-
ly, in 1846, he admitted to a partnership
John Morrison, and this connection was
uninterrupted until the death of Mr. Mor-
rison in 1861. For a time Mr. Peddie
again attempted to conduct his extensive
interests alone, but as this was entirely out
of the question, because of the large re-
sponsibilities involved, he accepted as a

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partner George B. Jenkinson, one of his
assistants, who had for many years become
thoroughly familiar with every detail of all
the departments of the concern. The firm
name was changed to read T. B. Peddie &
Company, and was thus continued until the
death of Mr. Peddie, February 16. 1889.
Many other business enterprises claimed
a share of the time and attention of Mr.
Peddie. He was a member, and at one
time president, of the Newark Board of
Trade ; director in the Essex County
National Bank ; president of the Securi-
ty Savings Bank.

The cause of education ever found in
him a most ardent advocate and liberal
supporter. He was one of the most inter-
ested workers in behalf of erecting the
academy at Hightstown, New Jersey,
which is now called Peddie Institute, as a
mark of respect and appreciation for the
services he rendered. The Newark Tech-
nical School is another institution which
largely owes its inception to the personal
efforts of Mr. Peddie while he was a mem-
ber of the Newark Board of Trade. For
many years he was a trustee of the Newark
City Home, and he was a generous contrib-
utor to all worthy enterprises of a charita-
ble nature. One of the noblest structures
in Newark, but one which Mr. Peddie d;d
not live to see finished, is what is now called
the Peddie Memorial. It was presented by
Mr. Peddie to the congregation with which
he had associated himself upon his first
coming to the city, and stands upon the
main street, almost facing one of the parks.
It seats three thousand worshippers, and is
constructed in the Byzantine style of archi-
tecture. The name it now holds was sug-
gested after the death of Mr. Peddie. His
ideas and plans with regard to this build-
ing, as far as he had expressed them, were
faithfully carried out by his widow and, in
compliance with another wish expressed by
him, she donated to the church valuable
property in 'New York City and elsewhere.
The fine moral character of Mr. Peddie

made him the choice of his fellow citizens
for positions of public trust and responsi-
bility, and he served in the State Legis-
lature in 1803-04. where his counsel was
of inestimable value during the troubled
times of the Civil War ; from 1866-69, he
was of great benefit to the city as its mayoi;
and in 18/6, as a representative of the
Sixth Congressional District of New Jer-
sey, he was a member of the Forty-fifth
Congress, declining renomination upon the
expiration of his term. His social mem-
bership was with the Union League Club of
New York, the Essex Club of Newark and
the Essex County Country Club of Orange.
Mr. Peddie married in Newark, in 1858,
Sarah Annette Ogden, who died in 1893.
The charities of Mr. Peddie, were numer-
ous, but generally pursued in so unosten-
tatious a manner that the world will never
know their full extent. They were char-
acteristic of the kindness of heart which
was one of his strong features. Few men
ever brought to public duties a greater
amount of conscientious principle. Every
public act was governed by that law of jus-
tice and of right which would stand the
test of closest scrutiny. He preferred the
true to the false, the substantial to the pre-
tentious, and his life was one which may
be studied by all who seek distinction, re-
spect and success.

MECUM, James Wright

Prominent in Community Affairs.

In the home in Salem which he built and
to which James Wright Mecum brought
his bride in 1840, and where all his chil-
dren were born, are many valuable articles
closely associated with the lives of mem-
bers of the family from which are descend-
ed the present owners, children of James
Wrright Mecum. There is the sword carried
by Dr. Samuel Dick while a surgeon in the
army besieging Quebec under the immortal
Wolfe; another carried by Major William
Mecum during the Revolutionary War ; and

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a third worn by Captain Josiah Harrison.
Major Mecum's sword is doubly valuable
as an heirloom, from the fact that it has a
silver hilt, made from his own shoe and
knee buckles. Well preserved old furni-
ture, hallowed by hands long since stilled,
portraits of honored forbears, tapestries,
and pictures, all testify to the veneration
with which these mute evidences of valor,
gentle blood, and domestic happiness are
held by the children of James Wright Me-
cum, who own not only the original home
of their parents but also the Mecum lands
in Lower Penn's Neck township, where
part of their honored father's life was
passed.

The Mecum family of Salem county
spring from Edward Mecum, and through
intermarriages are connected with the Sin-
nickson, Dick, and other leading early fam-
ilies of West Jersey, also with the Harrison
family of Newark and Orange, New Jer-
sey, who sprang from Richard Harrison, of
Connecticut, 1640, and Sergeant Richard
Harrison, who settled in Newark, New Jer-
sey, in 1667. The Mecums came in the lat-
ter part of the seventeenth century and the
Dick family between 1730 and 40. Each
furnished eminent sons that proved their
wnrth and value as citizens of the common-
wraith that gave them homes and opportu-
nity.

Edward Mecum, the founder, great-
grandfather of James Wright Mecum, first
appears on Salem county records in 1706,
as a juror, but in 1701 he purchased land
of Thomas Perm. He was the father of
William Mecum, who rebuilt a house in
1737 on his farm of two hundred acres in
Penn's Neck township, that is still stand-
ing. This William Mecum married, in 1728,
Margaret Vickery, the mother of Major
William Mecum, of Revolutionary fame.

Major Wiliam Mecum, of the third gen-
eration in Salem enmity, owned lands in
Lower Penn's Neck township, was a pros-
perous agriculturist, prominent in civil life,
and a soldier of the Revolution. He was

a justice of the peace from 1774 until 1776;
judge of Salem county courts from 1777
until 1782, also in 1786 and 87. He served
as major of the First Battalion Salem
County Militia, and saw service in the field
both in New Jersey and New York, lead-
ing his troops in the latter State as part
of the "Flying Brigade" commanded by
General Newcomb. The sword with the
silver hilt that was part of his equipment is
preserved by his great-great-grandchildren
in their Salem home previously referred to.
Major Mecum married (first) Dorcas Gib-
son, whose only child died in infancy. He
married (second) Eleanor Sinnickson, sec-
ond daughter of Andrew and Sarah Sin-
nickson, a descendant of Andrew Sinnick-
son (Anders Senecason), who came to
America about 1627. (See Sinnickson me-
morials in this work).

Andrew, son of Major William Mecum
and his second wife, Eleanor Sinnickson,
was born at the homestead in Lower Penn's
Neck township, February 3, 1780, and died
October 4, 1814. He was one of the lead-
ing agriculturists of the county, accumu-
lated considerable wealth, and was the own-
er of several farms. He married Ann,
daughter of James Wright.

James Wright, only son of Andrew and
Ann (Wright) Mecum, was born on the
homestead in Lower Penn's Neck township,
yet owned by his children, December 9,
1809, died in Salem, November 19, 1878.
He was educated in private schools and in
Salem Academy, devoting several years of
his youthful manhood to the duties of as-
sistant to the county clerk of Salem. He was
the owner of several valuable farms in Low-
er Penn's Neck township, and to the man-
agement of these the greater part of his life
was devoted. In addition to the manage-
ment of his own estates he was for many
years treasurer of the Farmer's Mutual Fire
Insurance Company, a trustee of Rutgers
College and of St. Mary's Hall, of Burling-
ton. He was a man of influence in his com-
munity, using his wealth justly and giving

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hearty support to the church with which
his family had been connected for many
generations, the Episcopal. He was a com-
municant of St. John's Church, of Salem,
served as vestryman and warden, was lay
reader for many years, and also superinten-
dent of the Sunday school. He had no
taste for public official life, yet was keenly
alive to his responsibilities as a citizen. He
was a Whig in early life, later becoming a
Democrat, and affiliating with that party
until his death. He was a man highly re-
spected, proud of the achievements of his
ancestors, jealous of the fame of the Me-
cum name, and transmitted it to his chil-
dren untarnished by act of his.

Mr. Mecum married. May 24, 1841, Lydia
Ann Harrison, of Salem, New Jersey, daugh-
ter of Josiah and Isabella S. (Dick) Harri-
son, the ceremony being performed in St.
John's by Rev. E. G. Prescott, the rector.
Mr. Mecum made his bride mistress of the
mansion he had caused to be erected at No.
33 Market street, Salem, and there their
years of married happiness were passed and
there all of their children were born. Chil-
dren : Isabella, died aged three years ;
George, died at the age of forty-four years,
unmarried ; Ellen, of extended mention else-
where ; James Harrison, died aged fourteen
years ; Maria Harrison, now residing in Sa-
lem, in the home where she was born ;
Charles, a graduate of the law department
of the University of Pennsylvania, class of
1881, now a practicing lawyer of Salem. He
married, May 29, 1890, Margaret Howard,
daughter of J. Howard and Elizabeth ( For-
man) Sinnickson, and has children: Fran-
ces Margaret ; Charles Harrison, a gradu-
ate of the United States Naval Academy,
class of 1914; and James Howard, a stu-
dent in the University of Pennsylvania,
class of 1917.

(The Harrison Line).

Lydia Ann Harrison Mecum was a
descendant of Richard Harrison, of New
Haven, Connecticut, who came from West

Kirby, England, in 1640, was of Branford,
Connecticut, in 1653, and New Haven in
1664.

Richard (2), son of Richard Harrison,
the founder, settled in Newark, \e\\ Jer-
sey, about 1667, and there died prior to
1691. He was known as "Sergeant Rich-
ard."

Joseph, son of Sergeant Richard Harri-
son, was born in 1649, died in 1742. He
married Dorcas, daughter of Sergeant John
Ward, of Newark; she died in 1738.

Stephen, son of Josefii and Dorcas
(Ward) Harrison, was born in Newark
in 1698, died in 1786, married, and left is-
sue.

Jotham, born in 1751, died in 1806, a resi-
dent of Orange, New Jersey, his farm now
forming the central part of that beautiful
suburban city. He married Lydia James,
born in 1750, died in 1832.

Captain Josiah Harrison, son of Jotham
and Lydia (James) Harrison, was born in
Orange, September 22, 1776, died Febru-
ary 25, 1865, in Salem. He was a gradu-
ate of Princeton, class of 1790, a lawyer,
a captain of Salem County Militia in the
War of 1812. He practiced law in both
Camden and Salem, also figuring prom-
inently in public affairs during the early
years of the Republic. It was his pride
that he witnessed the inauguration of George
Washington as the first President of the
United States in New York City in 1789, and
his greater pride that he lived long enough
to be assured that the Union of States was
of sufficient strength to resist the first
armed attempt to destroy it. He possessed
a rare collection of valuable books, some
of them yet preserved among the many
treasures of the Mecum home in Salem.
As a lay reader he gathered a small congre-
gation, that was the nucleus of the later St.
Paul's Church, the largest Episcopal church
in Camden. He was for many years a
lay reader and warden of St. John's, Sa-
lem, and was deeply interested in parish
work. He married, in 1804, Isabella Stuart

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Dick, who died February 16, 1817. Their
daughter, Lyclia Ann, married James Wright
Mecum.

(The Dick Line).

Isabella Stuart Dick was a daughter of
Dr. Samuel Dick, and granddaughter of
Rev. John Dick, son of a minister of the
Presbyterian church in the North of Ire-
land. Rev. John Dick married Isabella
Stuart, of Scotch birth, a lady of culture
and education. They came to America be-
tween the years 1735 and 1740, as in the
latter year they were living at Nottingham,
Prince George county, Maryland. On No-
vember 12, 1746, he was ordained pastor
of the Presbyterian church at New Castle
and Drawyers, Delaware, serving that and
neighboring churches until his death in
1748.

Dr. Samuel Dick was born at Notting-
ham, Prince George county, Maryland, No-
vember 14, 1740, died at Salem, November
16, 1812, after a most distinguished pub-
lic career as surgeon, physician, scholar,
politician, and patriot. He was educated un-
der the highest class of private tutors, spoke
and wrote five languages besides his own,
Hebrew, Greek, French, Spanish, and Lat-
in, and was educated for the medical pro-
fession in a Scotch university. He served
as assistant surgeon with the colonial army
in Canada in 1760, was with Wolfe at Que-
bec, and in 1770 came with his widowed
mother to Salem county, New Jersey, and
there established in medical practice. His
home, built in 1730, was a brick dwelling
on the corner of Walnut and Fenwick
streets, which he purchased and there end-
ed his days. In 1776 he was elected a mem-
ber of the Provincial Congress of New Jer-
sey, and was one of a committee of five ap-
pointed to prepare a draft of a constitution
for the State. He was commissioned col-
onel and rendered efficient service during
the Revolution. In 1780 he was appointed
surrogate of Salem county by Governor Liv-
ingston, an office he held for twenty-two

years. In 1783 he was elected to Congress,
and was a member of the Congress that
ratified the treaty of peace with England,
January 14, 1784, that gave to the world a
new nation — the United States of America.
He served as Congressman in 1783-84-85,
and was closely associated, in the construc-
tive legislation of those sessions, with Jef-
ferson and the leading men of his day. He
died in Salem, November 16, 1812, and is
buried in St. John's Cemetery, his grave-
stone testifying that "he spake evil of none."
His virtues were many, his deeds worthy.
Dr. Dick married, in 1773, Sarah, young-
est daughter of Judge Andrew and Sarah
Sinnickson. She died May 3, 1827, aged
seventy-one years, the mother of five chil-
dren: Sarah. Isabella Stuart, Anna, Samuel
Stuart, and Maria. Isabella S. married Cap-
tain Josiah Harrison, in 1804. Their daugh-
ter, Lydia Ann, in 1841 married James
Wright Mecum, of previous mention. The
descendants of Isabella S. Dick are the only
living descendants of Dr. Samuel Dick,
with one exception.

MECUM, Miss Ellen,

Leader in Benevolent and Patriotic Work.

Descended from a long line of honorable
ancestors, many of them renowned in
Church and State, Miss Mecum inherited
from her sires the virtues that made them
conspicuous in public life, while from the
gentle ladies of her ancient families came
that tender side of her nature that endeared
her to all and compelled admiration while
winning universal love and respect. A child
of patriotic sires, she gloried in their
achievements and reverenced the relics left
behind as evidence of their prowess. This
appreciation of their patriotism and that of
others of their day led her into the patriotic
order, Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, a society in which she won the high-
est State and national honors. She was a
true daughter of the Church, for years a
pillar of strength to St. John's, of Salem,

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her sphere the musical services, of which
for years she was in charge. She was
charming in her personality and a social
favorite, combining in her character the de-
voted earnestness of the striver after high
ideals and the charming womanhood that
brought her into general favor far beyond
the confines of her own city and State. A
truly consecrated woman,

"The world is richer that she lived
And Heaven that she died."

Ellen Mecum, born July I, 1846, died
January i, 1912, second daughter of James
Wright and Lydia Ann ( Harrison ) Me-
cum. She was well educated, especially in
music, talent for which she possessed to
an unusual degree, her voice a beautiful,
sweet, and true soprano. This led her
early to the church, and from the age of
ten years, when she first entered the choir
of St. John's, of Salem, she was a devoted
member of that church, consecrating her
musical talents to that best of all purposes,
Christian service. She trained, taught, and
managed the choir, and for many years was
in complete charge of the music at St.
John's, freely giving to that work all her
energy, enthusiasm, and zeal.

Second only to her love for the church
and her compassionate and helpful interest
in God's unfortunates, the work of the wo-
men's patriotic societies most appealed to
Miss Mecum. Through her patriotic for-
bears she gained admission to the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, joining
Nassau Chapter, of Camden. Her ability
and interest resulted in her election as re-
gent of that Chapter, but later, after organ-
izing Oak Tree Chapter (named in honor
of Salem's mighty oak, nowr over three cen-
turies old) she withdrew from Nassau to
become the first regent of Oak Tree Chap-
ter. Devoted to the order, her fame spread
abroad, and soon the State order availed
itself of her wise executive ability by elect-
ing her vice-regent of the New Jersey
Daughters of the American Revolution.

Soon afterward she was elected State re-
gent, serving two years. She had now be-
come a national character in the order,
served on important committees, was chos-
en vice-president general for New Jersey
of the National Society, and at the time of
her death was holding that high office, was
a member of the executive board of gover-
nors, and was chairman of the national com-
mittee on patriotic education. She was
deeply interested in the work of the last
named committee of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and through her ef-
forts much was accomplished in the matter
of patriotic teachings in the public schools.
Broad in her sympathy, energetic and ca-
pable, loyal and true, she achieved results
valuable to State and National Societies of
the American Revolution, none excelling
her in devotion or usefulness. She gave one-
fourth of her life to the service of that or-
ganization, loved it with all the intensity of
her strong nature, and found in it pleasure
and happiness, her sisters lovingly bestow-
ing upon her many honors. She was also
a Colonial Dame, member of the board of
governors of the New Jersey Society, Co-
lonial Dames of America, and but shortly
prioi to her deuth had been elected histo-
rian. She was president of the Women's
Club of Salem, one of the oldest women's
clubs in the country. The first panel dedi-
cated in the "Roof of the Republic," in the
Memorial Chapel of Valley Forge, present-
ed by Mrs. Erastus Gaylord Putnam, con-
tains a bronze tablet commemorative of Miss
Ellen Mecum, whose memory was further
honored in the dedicatory address.

Her sympathies were ever with the un-
fortunate and afflicted. She constantly plan-
ned for their relief and included in her plans
not only the betterment of individuals but
the improvement of civic conditions. The
blind particularly appealed to her warm and
loving nature, and in addition to her work
in their behalf, in which she was foremost,
she used her influence to the last in secur-
ing legislation which has immeasurably bet-

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uml the conditions under which the blind
must live and has reduced the cause of
blindness in young children. All forms of
t.f charitable work had her approval and
mpport, and no subject affecting the pub-
lic good was without interest to this no-
ble, public-spirited woman, who stood in her
community for all that was purest and best,
who, never weary in well doing, consecrated
all of her talents to the glory of God and
the good of her fellows.

"She is not dead, this friend, not dead,

But in the paths we mortals tread

Got some few trifling steps ahead

And nearer to the end.

So that you, too, once past this bend

Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend.

You fancy dead."

RUTHERFURD, John,

Historian, Leader in Community Affairs.

Hon. John Rutherfurd was born July 21,
1810, at the home of his maternal grand-
father, Lewis Morris, of Westchester coun-
ty, New York. His parents were Robert
Walter and Sabina (Morris) Rutherfurd.
His paternal grandfather, after whom he
was named, was a country gentleman and
large landholder, living on his estate at
Edgerton, on the Passaic river, known as
Rutherfurd Park ; he was a public-spirited
citizen, and served in the Congress of 1793;
he married a sister of Lewis Morris. The
paternal great-grandfather was a colonel
in the British army, prominent in the French
war; he married a sister of Lord Stirling.

John Rutherfurd became one of his
grandfather's family when he was about
tun and a half years old. As a child he
gave evidence of precocity beyond his years,
as shown by his diary. At the age of sev-
en he was reading Rollins' "Belles Lettres,''
Goldsmith's "Abridged History of Greece,"
and began Goldsmith's "History of Rome."
When nine years old he was sent
to the Newark Academy, under Adam
Smith, a noted teacher of that
day, but as the academy was at

too great a distance from his grandfather's
home, he was boarded by his teacher. Leav-
ing this school, he was fitted for college at
the famous institute of Dr. Brownlee, at
Basking Ridge. He was intended for Prince-
ton College, his father's alma mater, but
on visiting that institution he conceived a
dislike for what he deemed undignified con-
duct on the part of the students with whom
he would need associate. Entirely upon
his own motion, without consultation with
any one, he went to New Brunswick, and
after a two hours examination was admit-
ted to the sophomore class of Rutgers Col-
lege, being then in his fifteenth year. He
graduated at the age of eighteen, and took
up law studies with Elias Van Arsdale, in
Newark, and was admitted to the bar in
due time. He practiced his profession but
two years, when he abandoned it in order to
assist his grandfather in the care of his
estate. After the death of his grandparents,
he married, and took up his residence at the
palatial home of his aunts, Mary and Louisa
Rutherfurd, some two miles from Newark,
where he lived a life of gentlemanlike com-
fort, interested in his books, and at the
same time taking a leading part in further-
ing the enterprises set on foot for the de-
velopment of the resources and interests
of the surrounding region. In these labors
he displayed executive ability of a high
order, and it was said of him that "his
great self-control, his tact in management
of all embarrassing questions, his whole-
souled generosity, and his slowness to sus-
pect anything wrong in the motives of oth-
ers, caused him to be almost worshipped
among his tenantry, and there was probab-
ly no one in the entire county of Essex
who had equal popularity with him."
Transportation questions had a remark-
ably strong hold upon him. Conceiving
the desirability of connecting the Delaware
and Hudson rivers, he originated the War-
wick railroad, having its beginning at
Chester, on the Erie road, and continuing
to the State line, a distance of ten miles ;

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was largely interested in the construction
of the Pequest Valley railroad ; was a di-
rector and able worker in the Midland rail-
road ; and as president of the Tuckerton
railroad, in Ocean county, was largely in-
strumental in converting large areas of the
"pine barrens" into cultivated lands. He
was also a director in the Sussex railroad,
and president of the New Jersey Coal
Company, in which capacity he was the
prime factor in coal development.

Aside from the beforementionecl inter-
ests, he was deeply interested in others out-
side commercial lines but of great public
importance. He was an hereditary member
of the Council of Proprietors for the East-
ern Division of New Jersey, and for many
years its president ; "his influence in that
body was so great, and the confidence in
his inflexible uprightness and sound judg-
ment so general, that he never failed, by
expressing his opinion, to control the ac-
tion of the board, no matter how divided
the sentiment might be." He was a direc-
tor in the New Jersey State Agricultural
Society, and was a leader in the advance-
ment of its usefulness to the State at large.
He was a prominent member of the New
Jersey Historical Society, serving as vice-
president and president. His devotion to
this institution was constant and fervent,
and he brought to its service that versatil-
ity of talents that made him invaluable.
Many of the priceless manuscripts, docu-
ments and literary curiosities in its library
are the gifts of Mr. Rutherfurd and his
family.

He died November 21, 1872, aged sixty-
two years, after a long illness beginning
with malarious fever. The funeral took
place from Trinity Church. Newark, and
the burial in Christ Church graveyard,
Belleville, where are also interred the re-
mains of his parents, aunts, and one of his
children. He had grown up in that church,
and was for many years one of its vestry-
men, and frequently represented the parish

in the diocesan conventions of the Protest-
ant Episcopal Church of New Jersey.

BOGGS, Charles Stuart,

Distinguished Naval Officer.

Rear Admiral Charles Stuart Boggs was
born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Jan
uary 28, 1811. His mother was a sister of
the heroic Captain James Lawrence, whose
utterance, "Don't give up the ship," is as
famous as Nelson's "England expects every
man will do his duty." It is said of Boggs
that the impression made upon his mother
and transmitted to him, concerning the
brilliant career of Captain Lawrence, had
much influence in turning his mind to naval
affairs.

When quite young he was sent to Cap-
tain Partridge's celebrated military school
at Middletown, Connecticut, but his school
days were few. In 1826, at the early age
of fifteen, he was appointed from New Jer-
sey to a midshipman's berth in the sloop-
of-war "Warren," of the Mediterranean
Squadron, then engaged in protecting
American commerce against the Greek pi-
rates who swarmed in those waters. Young
Boggs was on this duty three years, a part
of the time in the ship-of-the-line "Dela-
ware." For two years following he was
on duty in the schooner "Porpoise," in the
West Indies. In 1832, having just come
of age, he was appointed passed-midship-
man, and with that rank served one year
in the sloop "Falmouth," in the West In-
dies, and three years in a receiving ship in
New York. In 1836 he was made master
of the ship-of-line "North Carolina,"
which had been ordered on service in the
Pacific, but on arriving at Callao he re-
ceived appointment as acting lieutenant,
and was ordered to the schooner "Enter-
prise," as master, in which capacity he saw
much active service. In 1837 he was made
full lieutenant, and in 1839 returned home
in the "North Carolina," which was now

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made a .school ship, and in which he served
in New York as lieutenant in charge of
apprentices, and in which capacity he dis-
played his fine capacity for command, com-
bining mildness and courtesy of manners
with absolute strictness as a. disciplinarian.
In 1842-1843 he was in the sloop "Sara-
l»u;a," on the African coast, and took an
active part in the bombardment and closing
of certain slave ports. During the war
with Mexico, in the steamer "Princeton,"
he took part in the bombardment of the
castle of San Juan de Ulloa, and Tampico,
and commanded a hazardous boat expedi-
tion from the "Princeton" and which de-
stroyed the U. S. brig "Truxton," after her
capture by the Mexicans; in this affair the
capture of his party was only averted by
his singular tact and courage. In 1851 he
was executive officer of the frigate "St.
Lawrence," sent to London by the govern-
ment to convey American contributions to
the World's Fair. On his return he was
promoted to first lieutenant, and for three
years was on duty at the New York Navy
yard as inspector of clothing and pro-
visions. From September 15, 1855, he was
for three years in command of the U. S.
mail steamer "Illinois," in the service of
the California Steamship Company. In
1860 he was made inspector of lights on
the California coast, in the steamer "Shu-
brick," and was on that duty when the
Civil War opened. He at once asked the
Navy Department to give him active ser-
vice, and was given command of the steam-
er "Veruna," which was ordered to Farra-
gut's licet below New Orleans. His was
the fir.st vessel to pass the batteries, and he
did much damage to the enemy's gunboats,
but his ship was finally rammed by the iron-
clad "Stonewall Jackson," whereupon the
"Veruna" was run ashore, in a sinking con-
dition, and firing her guns as long as they
were above water. For his gallantry on
this occasion he received beautiful swords
from his State and native town. On July
16, 1862, he was commissioned captain and

given command of the "Sacramento," on
blockading service off Cape Fear, and here
constant exposure and fatigue wore upon
him so seriously that he was obliged to ap-
ply for leave and return home to recruit
his health. In 1864-1865 he was on duty
at New York, superintending the building
and outfitting of steam picket boats planned
by himself, one of these being the torpedo
boat in which the gallant Gushing attacked
and destroyed the Confederate ram "Albe-
inarle." In 1866 he commanded the "Con-
necticut," cruising in the West Indies. On
this service he overtook the iron-clad
"Stonewall," in Havana harbor, and de-
manded her surrender, whereupon she was
turned over to the Spanish authorities. In
1867-1868 he commanded the "De Soto,"
of the North Atlantic Squadron. On July
i, 1870, he was promoted to rear admiral,
and appointed lighthouse inspector. In
1873 he was placed on the retired list. He
died April 22, 1888.

TEN EYCK, John Conover,

Lawyer, Jurist, Publicist.

The training and education of John Con-
over Ten Eyck was particularly well suit-
ed to the part in life he was destined to
play, and very probably exercised no small
influence in determining what that part
should be. Possessed of a large degree of
learning, an extensive knowledge of the his-
tory of the world and knowledge of its
achievements in literature and art, besides
a thorough understanding of his profession,
he was eminently fitted as an advisor in the
difficult task of framing for a great State
a constitution adapted to new conditions,
whereby her governmental and political re-
lations should be guided, and which should
exist as the paramount law in all domestic
affairs. It was in this invaluable function
that Mr. Ten Eyck made for himself his
greatest and most lasting claim for fame
and the gratitude of his fellow-citizens.

He was born in Freehold, Monmouth

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since 1857, and when hostilities began be-
tween the North and the South, he was
advanced to the rank of major-general. At
the outset, he believed the war to be avert-
able, and held aloof for a time. But, as
soon as the conflict actually began, with the
firing on Fort Sumter. he warmly espoused
the Union cause and held to it resolutely
until the end. His service as Governor was
from 1863 to 1866. He was constantly
active in support of the administration of
President Lincoln : he not only provided
New Jersey's full quota of troops at the
various times they were called for, but on
the invasion of Pennsylvania he supplied
Governor Curtin, of that State, with sever-
al regiments of emergency volunteers. At
the same time he directed the financial af-
fairs of the State with such sagacity that
during his entire administration not a single
bond was marketed at less than its face
value, and at the close of the war, in the
final summing up. instead of having a de-
ficiency to provide for, as was so common
with sister States, there was a surplus of
$200,000 in the treasury of New Jersey.

His admirable conduct of State af-
fairs during his governorship, with his tal-
ents for leadership and as an orator, gave
him national prominence. In 1868, in the
Democratic National Convention, he re-
ceived the undivided vote of the New Jer-
sey delegation for the presidential nomi-
nation, and similar action was taken in the
conventions of 1876 and 1884. In 1872 he
was the candidate of the National Labor
Reform Convention for Vice-President, on
the same ticket with Hon. David Davis for
President, but declined. In the same year
he was again elected Governor, and while
his incumbency of the office was unmarked
by any such stern requirements as attended
his first administration, his conduct was
most meritorious. On retiring from the
executive office, he was made Attorney-
General of the State. In 1876 he was a
presidential elector on the Tilden and
Hendricks ticket. In 1880 he was made a

Justice of the Supreme Court, and was re-
elected, extending his judicial service to a
period of eight years, meantime (in 1883)
declining a third nomination for the gov-
ernorship.

To Governor Parker is due the distinc-
tion of setting afoot the movement result-
ing in the erection of the Battle Monument
on the Monmouth battlefield, and of being
among the foremost in carrying the work
on to a successful consummation. The pro-
ject had its inception in an oration which
he delivered on the ground, in Freehold,
on June 28, 1877, the ninety-ninth anni-
versary of the battle. Committees to so-
licit funds were appointed on the spot,
State and National aid was procured, and
the completed monument was unveiled No-
vember 13111, 1884, on which occasion ex-
Governor Parker delivered an admirable
oration, which, as a contribution to history,
is valuable for all time. He received the
honorary degree of LL.D. from Rutgers
College in 1872; and he was an honorary
member of the New Jersey branch of the
Society of the Cincinnati. He married, in
1843, Maria M., daughter of Samuel M.
Gummere. of Trenton, New Jersey. He
died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January
2, 1888.

WHELPLEY, Edward W.,

Brilliant Lawyer, Jurist.

It has been said of Mr. Whelpley that
he was distinguished at the bar as a forci-
ble and convincing orator in public assem-
blies and in trials before juries, and as an
able advocate, with great force of intellect
and strong grasp of legal principles in ar-
guments ; that judges listened to him with
the profoundest respect, and never failed to
award him their greatest admiration, even
if they did not agree with him.

He was born in 1818, in Morristown,
New Jersey. He was the son of Dr. Wil-
liam A. Whelpley, a practicing physician
in that place, of high repute; his mother

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was a daughter of John Dodd, of Bloom-
field, who was an uncle of Vice-Chancellor
Amzi Dodd. He was prepared for college
in Morristown, and was graduated from
Princeton College, in 1834, at the age
of sixteen. After teaching school for two
years, he took up law studies under the pre-
ceptorship of his uncle, the elder Amzi
Dodd, and afterward under Amzi Arm-
strong. He was licensed as an attorney in
1839, the year in which he attained his
majority, and as counsellor three years
later. He practiced in Newark for a year
or two, and then went into the office of
Jacob W. Miller. The latter had been sent
to the United States Senate, and Mr.
Whelpley entered into a good deal of his
practice, and soon made for himself a place
at the bar, among lawyers of great ability.
Earnestly devoted to the work of his pro-
fession, he gave the whole force of his in-
tellect and will to the preparation and ar-
gument of his cases ; was eminently suc-
cessful in jury trials, and was a trusted ad-
viser and wise counselor in legal and bus-
iness affairs.

Mr. Whelpley made excellent use of his
ability as an orator at political meetings,
and took an active part in the political con-
tests that characterized the stirring cam-
paigns of a day when questions of concern
were little discussed by the press, but main-
ly by recognized leaders in their political
party. In 1847 ne was elected to the As-
sembly, serving in the sessions of 1848 and
1849. ar|d as Speaker of the House in his
second year. In 1858, at the age of forty
years, he was appointed an Associate Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court, and less than
three years afterward he was advanced to
the chair of Chief Justice. His promo-
tion was generally approved, and it was
hoped that he would stand at the head of
the court for many years. He was appar-
ently a strong man, in vigorous health ; but
after a little more than two years he was
stricken with an insidious disease, and died
in 1864, at the early age of forty-six years.

His brief period of service came between
the long terms of two great chief justices,
and he maintained the high standard set
by Henry W. Green and carried on by Mer-
cer Beasley. His associates were jurists of
the highest ability, — on his appointment as
puisne judge in 1858 were Chief Justice
Henry W. Green, Elias B. D. Ogden, Luci-
us Q. C. Elmer, Stacy G. Potts, Daniel
Haines and Peter Vrendenburgh ; and as
Giief Justice, his associates were William
S. Clawson, John Van Dyke and George
H. Brown. His services as Chief Justice
were during the greater part of the Civil
War period, and certain of his decisions
were of great import, as bearing upon the
taxation of United States bonds, and State
bonds expressly exempted from taxation.

Justice Whelpley married Eliza Wood-
ruff, daughter of Dr. Absalom Woodruff,
of Alendham. They left four children:
Edward, who died unmarried ; and three
daughters : Sarah, wife of William Whelp-
ley Thomas ; Edwina, wife of Rev. Sanford
Smith ; and Joanna, wife of Eugene Terry
Gardiner. There is a portrait of Justice
Whelpley in the Supreme Court room in
Trenton.

STODDARD, Rev. Elijah W.,

Early Educator, Distinguished Divine.

While there is no doubt that the world is
struggling upward, there are not many who
reach the heights attained by the late Rev.
Elijah Woodward Stoddard, D. D., of
Succasunna, New Jersey. He was a man
great and able, true and kind, and his life
was as white as the sunlight. The soul of
honor himself, he could not endure duplic-
ity and equivocation. For ignorance.
weakness, and even waywardness, he had
compassion and tenderness ; but bigotry,
narrowness, and insincerity awaken-
ed in him an honest loathing. His style
was chaste, vigorous and incisive ; he train-
ed his congregation like a master, and gave
to the people a solid and invigorating phil-

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osophy of life which developed in them a
deeper intelligence and a more robust faith.
No just appeal to his humane spirit ever
failed of a quick and generous response.
Those \vlio were associated with him and
came to know the full worth of his nature
-|,rak of him in words of the highest praise.
The family from which he was descend-
ed was an ancient and honorable one, and
a few words regarding his forbears appear
appropriate at this point.

The name Stoddard is derived from the
office of standard bearer, and was ancient-
ly written De-la-Standard. The coat of
arms of the Stoddard family of London is :
Sable three estoiles and a bordure gules.
Crest : Out of a ducal coronet a demi horse
salient, ermine. Motto : Fcstina Lcntc. In
the office of Heraldry, England, the follow-
ing origin of the Stoddard family is found :
William Stoddard, knight, came from Nor-
mandy to England in 1066 with William
the Conqueror, who was his cousin. Of
his descendants there is record of Rukard
Stoddard, of Nottingham, Kent, near El-
tham, about seven miles from London
Bridge, where was located the family es-
tate of about four hundred acres which was
in the possession of the family in 1490,
how much before that date is not known.
and continued until the death of Nicholas
Stoddard, a bachelor, in 1765. The line is
as follows: Thomas Stoddard of Royston ;
John Stoddard of Grindon ; William Stod-
dard of Royston ; John Stoddard of Roy-
iton; Anthony Stoddard of London; Gid-
eon Stoddard of London ; Anthony Stod-
dard of London ; William Stoddard of

London.

Anthony Stoddard, son of William
Stoddard of London, was the immigrant
oi Rev. Elijah Woodward Stoddard, D.D.,
and came to Boston, Massachusetts Bay
Colony, about 1639. His death occurred
March 16, 1686-87. He was admitted a
freeman in 1640 ; was deputy to the Gen-
eral Court in 1650-59-60, and during
twenty successive years from 1665 to 1684.

He married (first) Mary Downing, daugh-
ter of Hon. Emanuel and Lucy Downing,
and sister of Sir George, afterward Lord
George Downing. He married (second)
Barbara, widow of Captain Joseph Weld,
of Roxbury. He married (third)
Christian - — .

Rev. Solomon Stoddard, son of Anthony
and Mary (Downing) Stoddard, was born
October 4, 1643, and died February II,
1729. He was graduated from Harvard
College in the class of 1662, was later elect-
ed fellow of the house, and was the first
librarian of the college, being the incum-
bent of this office from 1667 to 1674. His
health having become impaired about this
time, he accompanied the governor of Mas-
sachusetts to the Barbadoes as chaplain,
and for almost two years preached there to
the Dissenters. He received a call from
the church at Northampton in 1669. and
settled there as minister, September n,
1672. Jonathan Edwards, his grandson,
was elected his colleague in 1726. Rev.
Stoddard was the author of many books
on religious subjects, and many of his ser-
mons were published. He married,
Esther (Warham) Mather, widow of Rev.
Eleazer Mather, his predecessor at North-
ampton. Among his children was a daugh-
er, Esther, who married Rev. Timothy Ed-
wards, and became the mother of the Rev.
Jonathan Edwards, mentioned above.

Rev. Anthony Stoddard, son of Rev.
Solomon and Esther (Warham) (Math-
er) Stcddard, was born August 9. 1678,
?nd was graduated from Harvard College
in the class of 1697. He settled as a min-
ister at Wroodbury, Connecticut, where he
was in active service for a period of sixty
years. His death occurred September 6,
1760. He married (first) Prudence Wells;
(second) Mary Sherman.

Eliakim Stoddard, son of Rev. Anthony
and Prudence (Wells) Stoddard, was born
April 3, 1705, and died in 1750. He lived
in Woodbury, Connecticut. He married
Joanna Curtis.

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John Stoddard, son of Eliakim and Jo-
anna (Curtis) Stoddard, was born January
26, 1730, and died January 22, 1795. He
was a resident of Watertown, Connecticut,
and married Mary Atwood, who died in
Charleston, Montgomery county, New
York.

John Stoddard, son of John and Mary
(Atwood) Stoddard, was born in Water-
town, Connecticut, July i, 1/63, where he
married Sarah Woodward in 1785. They
removed to Coventry, Chenango county,
New York, in 1802, when that section of
the country was primeval forest.

Rev. Elijah Woodward Stoddard, second
son of John and Sarah (Woodward) Stod-
dard, was born in Coventry, Chenango coun-
ty, New York, April 23, 1820, and died Oc-
tober 29, 1913. During all his boyhood
days, and until he attained his majority, a
part of his daily toil was the labor attend-
ant upon clearing a forest farm and assist-
ing in its cultivation. The schoolhouses of
those days were of the most primitive kind,
being constructed of logs, and the furni-
ture was of such a kind as could be manu-
factured at the least expense. The school
benches were thick planks of pine wood,
with a strong supporting pin of oak at
either end. A smooth board fastened
against the wall served the purpose of a
writing desk, and the user of this was
obliged to turn his back to the school while
writing. Individual recitation was the rule,
and class recitation the exception. A black-
board was an unknown quantity, and for
the older pupils there were only sessions
for three or four months during the winter,
when outdoor farm work had to be suspend-
ed. The very young children were taught
during the summer months by a woman
teacher, as even the half-grown children
were necessary to accomplish the work of
the summer months on the farm. As books
were scarce and very expensive, the suc-
cess which Mr. Stoddard achieved argues
a natural aptitude for study not often met
with. Every moment that could be spent

from his incessant and animus labors .,
devoted to the acquisition of knowledge
and, while he devnmvd every book in the
neighborhood which he could borrow or
acquire for his own, it is a self-evident fact
that, at that period, his chief means of
study was the Bible. Owing to this he was
but twelve years of age when he became a
church member.

Six years later he had acquired a suffi-
cient amount of learning to enable him to
pass an examination which permitted him
to become a school teacher. While there
were many hardships to be contended with
in this calling at that time, it was one of
the privileges of this estate to be permitted
to "board around," a custom now fallen
into disuse, but which united teacher, pu-
pils and their parents in bonds of closest
fellowship. Five winters were spent profit-
ably in this occupation, and during the sum-
mers of these years he assisted on the
homestead farm as he had previously done.
By this time he had fully decided to enter
the ministry, and he prepared for college
at Norwich and Oxford Academies. Ma-
triculating at Amherst College in Septem-
ber. 1845, he was graduated from this in-
stitution in June, 1849, and then became
a student at the Union Theological Semi-
nary, from which he was graduated in
May, 1852. He was delegated by the.
American Home Missionary Society to
Momence, Kankakee county, Illinois, but
the climate there having impaired his
health he was, after a short time, removed
to Hawley, Pennsylvania, where he re-
mained in charge three years. In Novem-
ber, 1856, he answered a call from the Pres-
byterian church at Amenia, Dutchess coun-
ty, New York ; in May, 1860, he went to
the Presbyterian church in Angelica, New
York; and May i, 1864, responded to a
call from the Presbyterian church at Suc-
casunna, New Jersey, where he remained
until his death. During his ministry hun-
dreds were added to the church member-
ship ; he performed four hundred and

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eighty-eight marriages ; and officiated at
eight hundred and ninety-seven funerals.
His sermons were both eloquent and force-
ful, compelling his hearers to ponder and
think on the Life Eternal and to lead lives
of piety and usefulness, he himself setting
an example well worthy of emulation. In
September, 1880, Maryville College, of
East Tennessee, conferred upon him thf
unexpected degree of Doctor of Divinity,
while those who knew him best felt that it
was an honor given where honor was due.
Rev. Dr. Stoddard was also an enthusi-
astic Christian Endeavor worker, attend-
ing the national and international Christian
Endeavor Conventions, bringing from them
inspiration to the societies at home. He
stood on the platform at Atlantic City, New
Jersey, with Fanny Crosby, who claimed
him to be her "twin brother," as there was
but one month's difference in their ages.
Dr. Stoddard was made a life member by
the Morris County Christian Endeavor
Union. His later years were a remarkable
demonstration of Longfellow's maxim that
"Age has its opportunities, no less than
youth." In all the walks of life he exhib-
ted characteristics which compelled respect
and won admiration. He was an example
of a man whose life was his creed. No
taint ever touched his stewardship. His
manhood and lofty character won and mag-
netized all true hearts. His life was beau-
tiful and complete in its symmetry, and was
a benediction and benefaction. Every act
of his daily life was made to accord with
the highest standards, and never fell short
of the highest ideals of Christianity. His
work, viewed from different angles, was a
noble and inspiring achievement. As a
Sunday school teacher and organizer he had
but few peers. In all his commerce with
the world the predominance of his ecclesi-
astical character was manifest. The
preacher, the useful minister, was the pic-
ture which he kept constantly be-
fore his eye. He never forgot the
ermine which he wore, "Behold an

Israelite in whom is no guile." He
was a humanized interpretation of the
Golden Rule, an incarnation of the Sermon
on the Mount. Charity for every human
weakness was the dominating element in his
character, and mercy the controlling force
in every judgment. Among all his quali-
ties none was more engaging than his posi-
tive genius for making friends. Rev. Dr.
Stoddard married (first) July 16, 1852,
Eliza West Concklin, born in New York
City, April 26, 1829, died in Succasunna,
New Jersey, October 23, 1874, a daughter
of Jonas W. and Eliza (West) Concklin
They had one son : George Henry, born in
Havvley, Wayne county, Pennsylvania,
June 7, 1853, died July 30, of the same
year. The mother and son were buried in
Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, New York, in
the family plot of Jonas W. Concklin. He
married (second) November 28, 1877,
Mrs. Eliza A. (Platt) Stoddard, born in
New York City, June 15, 1838. She is a
daughter of George W. and Eliza Platt,
and widow of Professor John F. Stoddard,
the mathematician. By her first marriage
she had a daughter, Eliza Platt Stoddard,
born July 21, 1869, died May 19, 1886, who
was a member of the household at Succa-
sunna parsonage for eight years. Hers
was a bright, intellectual and beautiful
Christian character. The Memorial Chap-
el standing near the Presbyterian Church,
erected by Mrs. Stoddard in 1887, is her
most fitting monument. So long as this
chapel can do service in the worship of
God, it will emphasize her words : "You
need Christ and Christ needs you to work
for him." "I want to do real work for
Christ."

The work of Dr. Stoddard lives invisi-
ble but mighty in the souls of those whom
he influenced, and "although dead he yet
speaketh." It is pleasant to reflect that in
his later years he was surrounded with all
that should accompany old age — honor,
love, troops of friends — and that he wore
the crown of all men's good will around his

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brow, and we are confident that he shall
hear the words of the Master: "Well done,
good and faithful servant, enter thou into
the joy of thy Lord."

GOODWIN, Rev. Hannibal,

Clergyman, Man of Inventive Genius.

The Church, from the earliest times, has
wielded a power superior to that of the
State, for the reason that the spiritual per-
vades and moulds and, sooner or later,
dominates the temporal. That the influ-
ence of the Church has steadily increased
in recent years is questioned by few
thoughtful and penetrating observers.
While, perhaps, less obviously and institu-
tionally exerted, it is for that very reason
more pervasive and powerful. Especially
is this the case when the Church's leaders
are men of broad minds and liberal senti-
ments, quick to discern "the signs of the
times," men of the type so forcibly repre-
sented by the late Rev. Hannibal Goodwin,
of Newark, New Jersey. His earlier years
were passed in the country, and he never
lost his love for the simplicity of rural life.

Rev. Hannibal Goodwin was born April
21, 1822, on a farm at what was then called
Goodwin's Point, now Taughannock Falls,
Cayuga Lake, New York, and at a suitable
age began his attendance at the district
school in that vicinity. He was a leader
among his schoolmates, in mischief as well
as in the more serious business of school
life, and was in trouble on more than one
occasion by reason of the boyish pranks
which he instigated. His mischief, how-
ever, was never of the kind to work seri-
ous harm to any one, and he was very gen-
erally beloved, even in those early days.
Later he became a student at Union Col-
lege, Schenectady, New York, from which
he was graduated, and then entered Yale
College in order to pursue legal studies.
Feeling himself better fitted for religious
work, he turned his efforts in that direction,
and entered the Union Theological Semi-

nary, New York, to prepare himself for
the duties of a minister of tin.1 Mrthod'st
Church. Having paid a visit to Old Trinity
Church, he was so deeply impressed with
the beauty of the Episcopal service that he
matriculated at the General Theological
Seminary, and there prepared himself to
serve as a minister of that denomination.
He graduated in the class of 1851, and in
1852 he married Miss Rebecca Allen, eldest
daughter of Joseph Allen of New York
City. Immediately after his marriage he
accepted a call to Christ Church, Borden-
town, where he remained three years. In
1855 he became rector of St. Paul's
Church, Newark, New Jersey, where he
officiated about five years. His next field
of usefulness was Trenton, and while min-
istering there he developed a bronchial
trouble which threatened to become of so
serious a nature that it was deemed advis-
able that he be removed to a more suitable
climate, for a time at least. Going to Cali-
fornia in December, 1859, he was sent to
Napa Valley by Bishop Kip, and there or-
ganized the first Episcopal church in that
section. Marysville was his next home, and
there the climate, which was much drier
and warmer, was of great benefit to him.
He spent about three years there, during
this time taking charge of St. John's
Church. Yielding to the solicitation of Bis-
hop Kip, Rev. Goodwin then went to San
Francisco, where he organized a church
school for girls, in connection with Grace
Cathedral, and later was in charge of this
cathedral for a number of years while the
Bishop was absent. The rectorship of the
House of Prayer, in Newark, was next of-
fered him, in 1867, and he discharged the
duties of this office for a period of twenty
years.

Even in boyhood, Rev. Goodwin had
been noted for the keeness of his inventive
faculties, and in later life this bent was
more fully developed. Had he not chosen
the ministry as his calling, and devoted all
his attention to inventions, in all probabil-

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it\ IK- would now be classed in the same
plain' as Edison, .Marconi, and others of
like i-diliiT. As it is, the invention which
brought his name prominently before the
public was the Kodak film, an invention
which has made possible many wonders in
the photographic world. A better discrip-
tion of it cannot be given than in extracts
from an interview with a representative of
"The Newark Sunday Call." Rev. Good-
win said in part :

"Yes, my invention — but I don't like to be call-
ed an inventor. A priest of the church is my
title, and of that I am proud, and I am glad to
state that at the very time I happened to make
this imrntion. I was exercising a certain feature
of my ministerial profession. It was in this wise:
Prior to the time I invented the kodak film I
had often preached, and had written not a little
upon the religious education of the young. The
importance of impressing the minds of the young
by means of pictorial or stereopticon illustra-
tions of Scriptural events and scenes had often
occurred to me. I had imparted these views to
Jabez Hayes, a layman of Grace Church, and
soon afterward I received a check of one hun-
dred and fifty dollars to be invested in stereop-
ticon apparatus. The next thing to be done was
to secure a proper series of Biblical subjects,
but these were not readily procurable, and I de-
termined to make my own selections, and make
the photographs on glass. During the course of
my experiments at my own home, I became con-
vinced of the necessity of having a substitute for
glass, which should have the qualities of greater
durability and less weight. My idea was to have
a long strip of some transparent material, which
could be wound on a spool, and would be light
enough to be carried about by the traveling pho-
tographer. Research convinced me that it was a
longfelt and sorely needed article in the art of
photography, and, utilizing the knowledge of
chemistry I had acquired during my collegiate
studies, I commenced a series of experiments, at
first with collodion, then with other materials,
until success crowned my efforts. Early in 1887
I applied for a patent, but as the subject matter
was one which had never been presented in any
form at the Patent Office prior to this time, there
was a considerable and unnecessary delay. In
the meantime, while my claim for a patent was
pending, H. Reichenbach, a chemist in the em-
ploy of the Eastman Company, applied for a
patent on a film of a similar kind, and this was

the cause of long investigation, my patent not
being granted until September 13, 1898."

Later the Goodwin Film and Camera
Company was formed by Mrs. Goodwin,
widow of Rev. Goodwin, and subsequently
the Ansco Company, of Binghamton,
bought up the Goodwin Film and Camera
Company, and brought suit against the
Eastman Company, in December, 1902, for
infringement under the Goodwin patent.
This gave rise to prolonged litigation, a
settlement being finally reached in March,
1914, when the Eastman Company agreed
to pay a substantial sum to the owners of
the Goodwin film patents.

Rev. Goodwin made a number of other
important inventions. One is a photo-
graphic screen and plate holder for process
half-tone work, planned on entirely new
principles. Many operators in the field of
photo-engraving regard him as the father
of the many fine processes which have done
so much for illustrating and the education
of the masses. He is credited with having
discovered the basic methods upon which
the half-tone work is being done to-day,
and with teaching young men who are now
at the head of this industry in this country.
He took no profit for himself from his im-
portant discoveries, but freely gave his
knowledge to young men who desired to
go into business, and who have grown rich
from the knowledge he instilled in them.

Mr. Goodwin left a widow, and three
adopted children, a son, Francis M. Good-
win, and two daughters, Eleanor H. Good-
win and Mrs. Mary Beckwith. His death
left a void in the community which can
scarcely be filled, so manifold were his ac-
tivities and so great was his influence for
good. No better estimate can be given of
the love and veneration in which he was
held, than in the following extract from
the "Church Porch," of January, 1901 :

Newark probably never numbered among its
residents a clergyman with more friends than
the Rev. Hannibal Goodwin. Though men dif-
fered with Mr. Goodwin, they liked him, admir-

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ed his ability and esteemed him because of his
high personal character and his benevolent and
friendly nature. A man of great stature and im-
posing presence, he looked to be a king among
men. In the pulpit he was more than a preacher,
he was a true orator. Early in his discourse he
gripped the minds of his hearers, and he held
their closet attention, while in simple language,
that was marked by just enough rhetorical orna-
ment, he forced home his argument or plea. He
was a skillful dialectician and could defend the
school of churchmanship in which he was a lead-
er with great ability, and his kindly disposition
kept him from wounding an adversary bv the
employment of cutting irony or severe invective.
In short, in the pulpit .and in social intercourse,
he was rarely known to use an unkind word.
One of his most beautiful sermons was upon St.
Paul's ode to charity. He took up each passage
in it — 'Charity suffereth long and is kind, charity
envieth not, charity vaunteth not itself, is not
puffed up, is not easily provoked, beareth all
things, etc.' — and showed how each precept may
be violated. He did this in a most effective and
persuasive way, and what he then preached he
practiced in Newark every day for more than
thirty years. In short, his great patience, lii-
humble yet dignified demeanor, his exceeding
tenderness and courtesy, the careful watch which
he set upon his lips, these conspicuous traits of
Mr. Goodwin made him a living exemplification
of the charity which St. Paul exalted. It is
scarcely necessary to add that besides being a
strong preacher he was also by nature an ideal
pastor. Not only his fine presence and marked
ability, but his faithfulness and broad sympathy
seemed to mark him in his prime as a priest pre-
eminently fit for the Episcopal office; and he was
named in connection with a vacant bishopric,
but was set aside, being regarded as too extreme
in his churchmanship to be advanced to a place
of high influence. In recent years some men of
the so-called Catholic school have been chosen
to be bishops, but in the days when Mr. Goodwin
was fighting the battles of that school, in the
Episcopal Church, its champions could not hope
for preferment.

The following minute has been adopted by a
committee of clergy present at the services
in The House of Prayer on Thursday. The
committee was appointed by the Bishop of the
Diocese immediately after the services.

In the death of the Rev. Hannibal Goodwin, a
heroic figure and one long identified with the re-
ligious life of the City of Newark, has been re-
moved from the Church on earth. We recognize
him as having been a zealous minister of the

Word and Sacraments, a laborious workman of
ChriM. a most instructive and faithful parish
priest, an eloquent preacher and a friend to the
poor and outcast. In the various fields of labor
in which he was engam d, lie proved himself firm
in maintaining the Catholic faith; and at a time
when the principles of divine worship in the
beauty of holiness were less understood and less
in evidence than they are now. he was always a
steadfast leader in the advanced movement.
While for the last thirteen years lie was relieved
from parochial cares, he did not forget the sac-
red responsibilities of his sacred oilier, and his
ministrations in different parishes where his ser-
vices were required, kept him in touch with the
active life of the church. He retained to the last
the respect and affection of those among uliom
it had been his duty to minister, and he was held
in high esteem by the community at large. We de-
sire on behalf of the clergy present at his burial,
to bear our testimony to the high value of the life
and services of our departed brother.

VREELAND, Warren,

Man of Many-sided Ability.

The many and sterling qualities possess-
ed by the late Warren Vreeland, of Nut-
ley, New Jersey, can be more thoroughly
understood when we trace the earlier his-
tory of his family, for there we will find
those virtues which distinguished the early
pioneers and made many of the names
noted in history.

Michael Jansen Vreelandt founded this
family in America. He left Broeckhuy-
sen, in North Brabant, in the ship "Rens-
selaerwyck," October i, 1636, and settled
at what is now Greenbush, opposite Al-
bany, New York. There he was a "boer-
eknecht," or farm servant, a kind of work
he soon abandoned for the more lucrative
one of fur trading, in which it is said "he
made his fortune in two years." The
Dutch West India Company, however,
claimed this trade as its sole prerogative,
and Mr. Vreelandt removed to New Am-
sterdam, prior to November 4, 1644, em-
powering Arent Van Curler to settle his
accounts and differences with Patroon Van
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mimipaw, on the bouvverie owned by Jan
I -u -risen Bout, and in \>>4j-^)-^O, he rep-
resented I'avoniu in the Council of Nine,
and joined hi.-, u-^oeiates in their crusade
against Governor Peter Stuyvesant. It was
at his house that the journal of Van der
Donck was seized, and it is supposed that
the seizure was on information furnished
by himself. July 26, 1649, he was one
of the signers of the application for the
first municipal government in New Nether-
land. He was also the inventor and inau-
gurator of the excise license system in New
Jersey, his plan and petition being present-
ed and granted, June 15, 1654. On Sep-
tember 15, 1655, the Indians massacred
everyone in the Pavonia community except
the family of Mr. Vreelandt. which was
obliged to take refuge in New Am-
sterdam ; and there, because he was
"an old man with a heavy fam-
ily," who had lost his all. he was
allowed to open a taproom. November 22,
1655. In February, 1656, he was granted
a lot in the city for the same reason, and
February 21, 1657, he was appointed one
of the measurers of lime and grain. April
13, 1657, he was enrolled as one of the
lesser burghers. January 22, 1658, he ask-
ed for permission to return to Communi-
paw. and three years later he was living
there on his own farm in competence. He
was one of the first magistrates of the new
court at Bergen, and in December, 1662,
he joined in the petition to the Governor
for a minister of the Gospel, to whose sup-
port he pledged twenty-five florins. His
death occurred in 1663. He married Fitje
Hartmans, who died September 21, 1697.
They had six sons and two daughters, and
from these the Vreelands are descended.
The old homestead of the Vreeland family
bears the date 1702, and is still standing
on the west bank of the Passaic river, a
little to the north of the Avondale bridge,
and is now known as the "Bend View
House."

On the maternal side the ancestry of

Warren Vreeland is no less worthy of men-
tion. His great-grandfather, John Spear,
located about two hundred yards north of
the Belleville bridge, on the east side of the
street, the house being still there, and
serves as one of the old and valued land-
marks of the section. He became the
owner of much real estate, on a part of
which the Dutch church and the residence
of Mrs.Tucker (a great-granddaughter)
are situated. From the old church steeple
in Belleville, he shot a British refugee on
the other side of the river, and the watch
found in the dead man's pocket was giv-
en him as a reward for his excellent marks-
manship. Captain John Spear, Jr., was in
charge of the guard house in Belleville,
and rendered excellent service in this ca-
pacity. He participated in many engage-
ments, notably the hard winter at Valley
Forge. The sword which he carried
throughout this war, his commission from
Governor Livingston of New Jersey, his
book of accounts, and the watch referred
to above, are in the possession of his grand-
daughter, Mrs. Tucker. One of the treas-
ured possessions, which was especially val-
ued by the late Warren Vreeland, was the
pistol used by his grandfather, John Vree-
land, during the Revolutionary War.

Warren Vreeland was born in the old
stone house on Chestnut street, Nutley,
April 15, 1822, and died April 20, 1909.
The first twenty years of his life were spent
under the same roof with his grandmother,
and in this way he received much informa-
tion regarding Revolutionary events which
he could not otherwise have obtained.
The house in which he was born, still stand-
ing in an excellent state of preservation, is
owned by his daughter, Laura — Mrs. W.
J. Tuers, and is occupied as a club house
by the Woman's Club. His education was
acquired in the public school of Nutley.
and he supplemented this by considerable
reading, mainly on the subject of mechan-
ics and inventions. He was broad minded
and in his ideas was ahead of his day.

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Long before the Hague Tribunal was
thought of he advocated the settlement of
International differences by arbitration
rather than the sword. In early manhood
he went west, settling on a farm in Wis-
consin, which he cultivated for a period of
seven years, and then decided that he was
better fitted for mechanical work and re-
turned to Nutley. There he had formerly
worked in the woolen mills of the Dun-
cans, and upon his return, meeting one of
the Duncans on the street, he was imme-
diately informed that his old place in the
mills was open to him if he chose to oc-
cupy it, so highly was his ability as a ma-
chinist appreciated. Mr. Vreeland was the
owner of a blacksmith's shop and wheel
wright establishment in Nutley, which he
conducted with a very satisfactory amount
of success. He became the owner of a
large quantity of real estate, which is now
in the possession of his children. Mr.
Vreeland was a man of many-sided ability.
While he had never learned the trade, he
was a capable carpenter, and could build a
house as well as an expert in this line. In
fact, he could turn his hand to almost any-
thing in the mechanical line, and make a
decided success of the undertaking. He «'•>?
a man of action and influence in local politi-
cal matters, and served many times as a
member of the Commission of Appeals. At
first a strong supporter of the Whig party,
he later affiliated with the Greenbackers, and
finally became a strong Prohibitionist.
While he never was a regular or frequent
church-goer, he was a man of deep and
true religious convictions, and his entire life
was one of good will to all.

Mr. Vreeland married, March 17, 1847,
Jane E. Lloyd, born July 10, 1819. died
April 12, 1907, a daughter of John W.
Lloyd, of Morristown, New Jersey. In
1897 they celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary, and both were living at the
time of the sixtieth anniversary. Children :
I. Virginia, married (first) William Mc-
Farland, and had children : Eva. Harvey

and Grace ; after his death she married
(second) his brother, John McFarland. 2.
Everett, who died in 1894. 3. Laura Mason,
who married W. J. Tuers, of Paterson,
New Jersey, and has one child : Russell.

RUNYON, Theodore,

Lawyer, Jurist, Diplomat.

When Joel Parker, the first of the Dem-
ocratic Governors after the war, was called
upon in 1873 to appoint a Chancellor of
the State of New Jersey, he selected a
Democrat who had been a loyal soldier and
was a brilliant advocate at the bar, Theo-
dore Runyon. He was not then known as
a learned lawyer, but he was a man of quiet
intelligence, clear perceptions and strong
sense of justice, accomplished, versatile
with a wide knowledge of affairs and of
men (Courts and Lawyers of New Jersey,
Keasby ) .

As Chancellor and Presiding Judge of
the Court of Errors, he displayed wonder-
ful powers and so fully proved his quali-
fications for this position of great power
and trust that the New Jeresy bar after
fourteen years association with him urged
upon Governor Green the wisdom of again
appointing him, stating in a petition that
''He has in the whole administration of his
office exhibited the intellect, learning, in-
dustry, wisdom, spirit and temper which go
to make up a great equity judge."

As Ambassador to Germany he gained
favor with the German government, filling
his high office with dignity and credit.
Whether he be considered as lawyer, jur-
ist, soldier, diplomat or citizen, his charac-
ter shines forth with a brilliancy that for-
ever insures him a permanent place in the
New Jersey Hall of Fame.

Theodore Runyon was born in Somer-
ville, New Jersey, October 25, 1822, son of
Abraham Runyon, and a descendant of the
Huguenot, Vincent Rognion. one of the
earliest settlers of Piscataway township,
Middlesex county, New Jersey. He receiv-

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ed his preparatory education in the schools
of I'lainfield and New York; later entered
Yak- (olk-ge where he was graduated in
1842. He and his friend, A. Q. Keasby,
were among the founders of the famous
College Society, Scroll and Keys, and on
the fiftieth anniversary of the founding
of the Society, both delivered eloquent ad-
dresses. After graduating Mr. Runyon
began the study of law in Newark, under
Asa Whitehead, continuing until the July
term, 1846, when he was admitted to the
bar and licensed an attorney. Three years
later he was admitted a counselor. He be-
gan practice in Newark at once rising rap-
idly in public favor until 1853, when he
was made city attorney and advanced to
city counsel in 1856, holding the latter of-
fice for eight years. He evinced the great-
est interest in public affairs and developed
a strong liking for military life. He join-
ed the militia and in 1857 was appointed
Brigadier General for Essex county. He
was fond of his title, and was commonly
known as General Runyon, even when he
became Chancellor and Ambassador, and
at the Court of Berlin wore the uniform of
a major general of the United States Army.
When the Civil War was inevitable, he en-
listed and in 1861 was commissioned brig-
adier-general of the First Brigade, New
Jersey Volunteers, and assumed command
on April 27th of that year. His regiment
attained its full quote on April 3Oth, and
was one of the first to leave for the seat
of war, reaching Washington on May 6th,
nineteen days after the first man was mus-
tered in. The regiment was engaged on the
defences of Washington and one of these,
Fort Runyon, was named for the General.
The regiment served its full term of enlist-
ment, three months, then returning. When
General Runyon returned in August, 1861,
before quitting the field he received the
thanks of President Lincoln, personally
tendered in the presence of the cabinet, for
his services and those of the New Jersey
Brigade. Complimentary resolutions were

passed by the New Jersey Legislature, and
on February 26, 1862, he was appointed in
compliance with the recommendation of
the House of Assembly, major-general by
brevet.

He at once began the practice of law in
Newark and became very influential in po-
litical affairs. He had been a presidential
elector in 1860. Was elected mayor of
Newark in 1864 and was the candidate of
his party for Governor of the State in
1865, only failing an election by two
thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine
votes, meeting defeat at the hands of Mar-
cus L. Ward, the Republican candidate. He
was appointed major-general of the New
Jersey National Guard in 1869, holding that
rank until his appointment as Chancellor,
four years later. During all these years
he was actively engaged in the practice of
his profession and had gained a good repu-
tation as a successful jury lawyer. A
bright and ready speaker, persuasive and
forceful, his manner pleasing and his logic
convincing, he was one of the strong men
of the Essex bar and recognized as one of
the most capable and efficient lawyers of the
decade following the Civil War. On April
29, 1873, Governor Joel Parker appointed
him, with Abraham O. Zabriskie, Robert
Gilchrist, Augustus W. Cutter, Mercer
Beasley and other commissioners, to prepare
amendments to the State constitution, and
about the same time Governor Parker an-
nouced the appointment of Theodore Run-
yon to succeed Abraham O. Zabriskie as
Chancellor of the State. At this time he
was president of the Manufacturers' Bank
of Newark, resigning that position on as-
suming the new office. He took his seat
at the May term, 1873, an^ f°r fourteen
years thereafter most ably filled his high
position and covered by his numerous opin-
ions the whole province of equity, enriching
and developing that most important branch
of the jurisprudence of the State. His ex-
tensive learning, remarkable facility of
thought and expression, his sound judg-

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ment, instinctive sense of equity, indefat-
igable industry, and as the years progressed,
his long experience on the bench rendered
him particularly qualified to fill the high
position to which he was twice appointed.
The whole bar was indignant and disap-
pointed when he was not appointed the
third time, voicing their displeasure in no
uncertain manner. It was not only his
great ability as a judge, nor his wise ex-
ecutive qualities, but his sympathy, winning
personality and charming manner made
personal friends of all who came under his
influence. To the younger men of the bar
he was especially kind and helpful, giving
them a sense of companionship and in help-
ing them in obtaining justice for their cli-
ents, thus stimulating and encouraging
them to do their best. His decisions while
Chancellor were numerous, exceedingly
weighty and valuable, these discussions all
being reported in connection with the im-
portant cases thus decided and comprising
an important addition to judicial precedent
and literature. After retiring from the
bench, the ex-Chancellor returned to pri-
vate practice in Newark and became one of
the busiest lawyers, his proved ability and
the prestige of his high office bringing him
clients of the highest class and cases of the
greatest importance.

In 1893 President Cleveland appointed
him Minister to Germany, that post being
soon afterwards raised in rank by Act of
Congress to that of Ambassador. As a
diplomat he gained additional renown, and
with dignity and credit upheld the highest
American traditions. While in Berlin his
old college mate and lifetime friend, A.
Q. Keasbey, died in Rome, Italy, the Am-
bassador rendering the greatest assistance
and almost tenderness to the daughters of
his friend. He filled his exalted office with
the greatest credit, until his sudden death
at the German capital, January 27. 1896.

There is no eulogy of General Runyon
that can overestimate his greatness. He
was tried under everv circumstance and his

career graces the annals of his native Sta«
shining with brightest lustre when re-pon
sibility was greatest and qualities of true\
manhood demanded. He i- best remember-
ed as the gifted Chancellor but as Ambassa-
dor he won a reputation as the equal of any
representative of a foreign power at the
German capitol. hi- di-rp learning in both
law and literature. hi< ni.M-'erv «i several
modern languages, his accomplished ora-
tory and his brilliant writings making a
deep impression upon the German Court
and upon the foreign diplomats there ac-
credited. W'esleyan University recognized
his scholarly attainments by conferring the
honorary degree of LL.D., August 15,
1869, Rutgers College conferred the same
degree in 1875 an^ Yale University in 1882.
General Runyon married, in 1864, Clem-
entina, daughter of William D. Bruen of
Newark, who survives him. Children
Mary Clementine, married Harry C. Has-
kins of New York ; Frederick T. ; Julie B.
Leonard C. : and Helen L. married E. Al
vah Wilkinson.

VAN HOUTEN, Anthony B.,

Prominent Builder and Man of Affairs.

Anthony B. Van Houten, for many years
one of the most active business men of Pat-
erson, New Jersey, was born September 8,
1833, at Oakland, Bergen county. New Jer-
sey, son of Martin and Hester ( Bartram)
Van Houten. He was a descendant of one
of the oldest Dutch families of New Jer-
sey, which was originally planted in Bergen
county, and shortly afterward was active in
the settlement of what is now Passaic.

Among the early settlers of the ancient
town of Bergen, which is now Jersey City,
were three brothers, Helmigh, Cornelis and
Tunis Roelofse, that is, sons of Roelof. One
of these, Cornelis Roelofse, who took the
surname Van Houten, indicating the locali-
ty whence he came in Holland, was among
the patentees of Acquackanonck, which em-
braced the present city of Passaic, in 1684.

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His descendants have continued to reside in
that section down to the present day, and
have ever proved themselves worthy and
useful citizens. The farm on which An-
thony I',. Van Houten was born had been,
loi many generations, in the family, and a
part of it is still owned by his heirs. The
original homestead is now a part of the
Page summer home.

Anthony B. Van Houten attended the
local schools for a period of eight months
only, and was chiefly self-educated. He
was eight years old at the time of his fath-
er's death, when the family included nine
children, and he was early obliged to make
his own way in the world. While stil! a
boy he went to New York City, where he
served an apprenticeship with a well-known
builder named Christy, learning the trade
of carpenter. At the age of twenty-one
years he was working on and had charge of
the construction of the building of the
Pacific National Bank building in New
York. He continued at his trade in that
city until 1 866, when he removed to Pater-
son, New Jersey, and engaged in building
construction with his brothers William H.
twenty-one years of this association the
H. and James Van Houten. During ths
brothers constructed many of the principal
buildings of Paterson, among the first of
which was that of the First National Bank.
During his activities in this connection,
Anthony B. Van Houten became known as
the leading builder of the city. Among
the numerous churches which he con-
structed were the Church of the Redeemer
and the Second Presbyterian Church, Bap-
tist Church and Grace Methodist Episcopal
Church, and he also erected Washington
Hall. About 1888, James Van Houten re-
tired from the firm, and in 1892 Anthony
B. Van Houten purchased the interest of
the other brother, and continued business
under the name of A. B. Van Houten until
1900, when his son, Edmund Van Houten,
was admitted, and the business was after-
wards conducted under the style of A. B.

Van Houten & Son. The headquarters of
the concern has been located, since 1868, at
68-78 Paterson street, where a planing
mill and lumber yard are maintained, and
a general mill business carried on.

Anthony B. Van Houten continued ac-
tively in business until a very short
time preceding his death, which oc-
curred August 25, 1914. He was
early in life a member of the Market
Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and
later united with the Grace Methodist Epis-
copal Giurch, of which he was one of the
founders and treasurer for twenty years,
and near which he resided for some time.
He again joined the Market Street Church,
of which he was treasurer over twenty
years and trustee twenty-six years. In his
earlier years he was among the most active
workers in the Sunday school. For forty-
seven years his home was at No. 83 Ham-
ilton avenue, Paterson, in the first building
constructed by the brothers when they
started in business in Paterson. For many
years preceding his death his summers were
spent in Oakland, where he had a country
home, within half a mile of his birth place,
and there he died in his eighty-first year.

Mr. Van Houten was a patriot, ever in-
terested in the welfare of his country, state
and city, but did not devote much time to
political matters, his only official service
being in the capacity of judge of election.
His time was very largely devoted to his
home and church. In 1909, when seventy-
five years of age, he made a trip to Europe,
visiting many countries. He had previous-
ly been an extensive traveler in his native
land, spending considerable time at the Yel-
lowstone Park, in California, Florida and
Canada, and was thoroughly familiar with
the interesting scenes of his home country.
A great lover of nature, he ever maintained
that the natural scenery in this country sur-
passed in grandeur and beauty any to be
found in Europe. A self-made man, he
was ever interested in movements calculat-
ed to build up and promote the welfare of

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the city of Paterson. Of genial, kindly dis-
position, he was respected by all, and was
especially active in all religious works. He
married (first) Sarah Davis, and they were
the parents of two children : Hester and
Martin. He married (second) Euphemia
F. Stephens, a native of Westchester coun-
ty. New York, daughter of Daniel and
Jeanette (Odell) Stephens, of old West-
Chester county families. The parental hom°-
stead is now a part of Kensico Cemetery.
Mrs. Van Houten was ever the coadjutor
of her husband in good works, ever active
in the labors of the church, and in every
charitable undertaking. After a life com-
panionship of over fifty years, they were
separated but a short time by death. She
passed away March 3, 1915, surviving her
husband less than seven months. They
were the parents of three children : Ed-
mund, Jennie and Nellie.

TALMAGE, Thomas DeWitt,

Noted Divine and Lecturer.

Rev. Thomas De Witt Talmage was born
at Bound Brook, Somerset county, New
Jersey, January 7, 1832, the youngest cf
twelve children — five girls and seven boy?.
His father, David T. Talmage, was a farm-
er, whose predominant traits were geni-
ality, firmness and decision of character.
His mother was a woman of marked ami-
ability, gentleness, and keen wit. In the
son's character these traits appeared to be
very nearly united. For more than a quar-
ter of a century the Talmage ancestry were
members of the Reformed Dutch Giurch.
in which David T. Talmage was a leading
official.

Thomas De Witt Talmage's preliminary
studies were made in the grammar school
at New Brunswick, New Jersey, under Pro-
fessor Thompson. In his early life he
showed the possession of acute powers of
observation and a retentive memory. En-
dowed with great bodily vigor, he was en-
thusiastic in all that he undertook. His

entrance into the church was unduiibtcdh
on account of the fact that two of hi* uncles,
one brother-in-law, and three brothers had
become ministers of the gospel. At the age
of eighteen he joined the church, and the
following year entered the University of
the City of New York. Here he did not
exhibit any great brilliancy, but displayed a
talent in oratory and dramatic capacity
which made him notable and attracted at-
tention on exhibition days. It is said of
him, also, that as a scholar in belles-lettres
he was without a rival among all the stu-
dents of his period in the university. He was
graduated in May, 1853, the exercises being
held in Niblo's Garden, New York City,
and his oration aroused the audience to a
high pitch of enthusiasm. Its subject was.
"The Moral Effects of Sculpture and Ar-
chitecture," and it was published in full in
one of the New York daily papers, being
the first literary article of Mr. Talmage's
ever printed. At the close of his college
studies De Witt imagined himself interest-
ed in the law, and became a student in a
law office, where he remained for three
years. He then conceived that he had made
a mistake, and prepared himself for the
ministry at the Reformed Dutch Church
Theological Seminary in New Brunswick.
New Jersey, and was ordained by the
Reformed Dutch Classis of Bergen.

lust after his ordination, the young min-
ister received two calls — one from Pier-
mont. Xew York, the other from Belleville,
New Jersey. He accepted the latter, filled
that charge for three years, and was then
called to Syracuse. New York, where his
talents for preaching frequently crowded
the church, and began to be noted. About
this time Mr. Talmage married Miss
Avery, of "Brooklyn, by whom he had two
children, a girl and a boy. Afterward he
became pastor of the Second Reformed
Dutch Church of Philadelphia, where his
sermons were first published, and gained
almost immediate recognition and populari-
tv. Here Mr. Talmage had the misfortune

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to lose his wife by a drowning accident on
the Sclniykill river. Two years later he
married his second wife, Su.san C. Whitte-
more, of Brooklyn, by whom he had several
children.

Mr. Talmage remained in Philadelphia
seven years, during which period he first
entered upon the lecture platform, and laid
the foundation for his future reputation
At the end of this time he received calls
from Chicago, from San Francisco, and
from the Central Presbyterian Church of
lironkKii. The latter church comprised
only nineteen members, with a congrega-
tion of about thirty-five. He was offered a
salary of $7000, and accepted the call. He
went to Brooklyn in March, 1869, and his
congregation increased from the first Sun-
day. After preaching for fifteen months in
the old church, he induced the trustees to
sell the property and erect a new edifice, to
be known as the Brooklyn Tabernacle, of-
fering to give up his salary until the new
plan proved a success. Work upon the
church was begun in 1870, and, while it was
being erected, Mr. Talmage made a visit to
Europe, staying chiefly in England, Scot-
land, and Ireland. The tabernacle was com •
pleted the same year, the ground site re-
sembling a horseshoe, large enough to en-
close within its sides half an acre of ground.
On the morning of Sunday, December 22,
1872, the building was burned to the
ground. Prompt sympathy and general
liberality, however, soon gave promise of a
new church, and meanwhile Mr. Talmage
preached to vast audiences in the Academy
of Music. The cornerstone of the new tab-
ernacle in Schermerhorn street was
laid on Sunday. June 7, 1873, and it was
formally opened in February of the follow-
ing year. It contained seats for 4.650, but
when the church was crowded, nearly 7,000
persons could be accommodated within its
walls. Mr. Talmage had previously intro-
duced the innovation of abolishing the
choir, and establishing congregational sing-
ing, with a precentor leading, and the en-

tire congregation joining in the hymns. In
this new tabernacle Mr. Talmage's individ-
uality most prominently manifested itself,
his dramatic capacities and peculiar meth-
ods of driving home the forcible words of
his sermons, giving rather a theatrical char-
acter to his preaching. Nevertheless, he
succeeded in holding a large body of earn-
est persons together, and interesting them in
practical religion. Meanwhile the church
was in debt to the amount of $72,000, and
was obliged to call upon an individual
known as the "great church debt raiser."
With his assistance, Mr. Talmage putting
his name down for $5,000, the congregation
pledged themselves to raise $42,000, and the
remainder was soon after secured from
private subscription. In October, 1878, the
pastor's salary was raised from $7,000 to
.$12,000. In the autumn of 1889 the sec-
ond tabernacle was destroyed by fire. It
was just at the time when Dr. Talmage
was about starting on a trip to Palestine
and the East. At first he announced his de-
termination of giving up his tour on ac-
count of this misfortune. This, however,
the trustees and the congregation would not
listen to, and, as it became evident that the
disaster would only be of a temporary char-
acter, Dr. Talmage started at the time he
originally designed, and went first to Lon-
don, where he had a very flattering recep-
tion, thence to Greece and to the
Holy Land, becoming enthusiastic as he
traversed the memorable places, and send-
ing home brilliant descriptions of what he
saw and the thoughts inspired. After his
return home in 1800, while the new struc-
ture was in process of erection. Dr. Tal-
mage divided his time on Sundays between
New York and Brooklyn, preaching in the
Academies of Music of those two cities.
The new tabernacle was completed in time
for the Easter service, 1891.

The University of New York conferred
the degree of A.M. upon him in 1862, and
he received that of D.D. from the Univer-
sity of Tennessee in 1884. Dr. Talmage

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published numerous lectures and addresses
in the magazines, and was the author of
"Crumbs Swept Up," (1870); "Sermons,"
(4 vols.. New York, 1872-75) ; "Abomin-
ations of Modern Society," (New York,
1872; 2d ed., 1876) ; "Old Wells Dug Out,'
(1874); "Sports That Kill," (New York,
1875) ; "Night Sides of City Life," ( 1878) ;
"The Brooklyn Tabernacle ; a Collection of
104 Sermons," (1884), and "The Marriage
Ring," (1886). Dr. Talmage also supple-
mented his clerical duties by editing "The
Christian at Work" (1873-76); "The Ad-
vance" (Chicago, 1877-78), and "Frank
Leslie's Sunday Magazine.

SEWELL, William Joyce,

Civil War Veteran, Statesman.

William Joyce Sewell was born at Castle-
bar, Ireland, December 6, 1835. Losing
his parents at an early age, he came to
America in 1851 and obtained employment
in New York City. Subsequently he made
two voyages to Australia and China, before
the mast, and upon his return he first set-
tled in Chicago, Illinois, and later removed
to Camden, New Jersey.

At the beginning of the Civil War he
entered the service as a captain in the
Fifth New Jersey Infantry. He partH-
pated in nearly all the battles of the Army
of the Potomac ; and in the desperate battle
of Chancellorsville, while leading a brilli-
ant charge in command of the Second New
Jersey Brigade, he captured eight stands of
the enemy's colors, and recaptured the flag
of a New York regiment. At the close of
the war he was mustered out as brigadier-
general, and by special act of Legislature
was given the same rank in the National
Guard of New Jersey. He was brevetted
major-general by the President, and receiv-
ed from Congress a medal of honor.

After the war he became actively inter-
ested in railroads, and was vice-president
of the West New Jersey line and a director
of the Pennsylvania road. In 1872 he was

elected to the Slate Senate .1 a representa-
tive from Camden county, and by reelec-
tion- ,-iTved until 1881, being president of
tli.it body in 187(1. 1871) and 1880. Hi- •
aired the passage of the municipal railroad
tax law, which added large revenues I' i I he
Slate. In 1881 he was elm, en I 'nited
States Senator, and served by re-election
until his death. General Sewell \va> a mem-
ber of the National Republican Conventions
of 1876, 1880, 1888, 1892. and i8./). At
the time of his death he was president of
the Camden & Philadelphia Ferry Co.; a
director in the American and Red Star lines
of steamships, in the Camden Safe I )epo il
& Trust Co.; in the Farmers & Mediani' -
National Bank of Woodbury, in the Sec-
ond National Bank of Bridgeton, in the
Chicago Junction railways, and in the
L'nion Stockyards Companies; a trustee of
the New York Mutual Life Insurance
Company; a member of the Union League
Club of Philadelphia, of the Camden Re
publican Club, and of many charitable or-
ganizations.

He was twice married. His first wife
died in 1861, and after the Civil War he
was married to Helen L. Heyl. He died at
Camden, New Jersey, December 27, 1901,
survived by two sons and three daughters.

CONDIT, Aaron Peck,

Merchant, Man of Affairs.

Aaron Peck Condit, late of Madison,
New Jersey, was born December 17, 1830,,
at Orange, Essex county, New Jersey, son
of Samuel and Phoebe (Peck) Condit, and
a lineal descendant of John Cunditt (or
Condit) who was first of record in this
country in 1678. The family was in all
probability of Norman descent, but the an-
cestor came to this country from Wales.
They were people of distinction in England,
even at that early day, and in America the
family is one of the largest, best known and
most respected in the country. It has given
tc the republic statesmen, judges, lawyers.

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civines and business men of high standing
in the communities where they have located.
'I In main characteristics of these people are
:i sturdy independence, excellent judgment,
sound common sense, downright integrity
and adherence to truth and righteousness.
II K-r characteristics have descended from
father to son and are as pronounced among
those bearing the name to-day as they were
among the earlier generations.

Aaron Peck Conclit was the sixth in lineal
descent from John Cunditt, the immigrant
ancestor, the line being as follows : Samuel
Condit (5), born March 22, 1798, died
( >ct«ber 22, 1864, and Phoebe Peck, his
wife, daughter of James Peck. Samuel
Condit (4), born August 16. 1761, died
August 31, 1822, and Hannah Harrison,
hi- wife, daughter of Ichabod Harrison.
Daniel Condit (3), born December 27, 17.23.
died November 11, 1785, and Ruth, daugh-
ter of Gershom Williams. Samuel Condit
(2), born December 6, 1696. died July iS,
1777, and Mary Dodd, born November S,
1698, died May 25, 1755. Peter Condit
(i) died in 1714, and Mary, daughter of
Samuel Harrison. Peter Condit ( I ) or
Cunditt was a son of the original John Cun-
ditt. Two of these ancestors were patriot
soldiers in the Revolution.

Until he was fifteen years of age Mr.
Condit attended the public schools of East
Orange, afterward continuing his studies
under the tuition of Rev. David H. Pierson,
a distinguished teacher who for many years
conducted a seminary at Elizabeth, New jer-
sey. Mrs. Pierson was a cousin of Mr.
Condit. For four years after leaving school
he remained with his father on the farm,
but a business life appealed to him and he
\\tnt to Fremont, Ohio, and entered into
partnership with his brother, Samuel D.
Condit. carrying on a dry goods business
under the firm name of Condit Brothers.
Later, William W. Brant, of Belleville,
New Jersey, was admitted to the firm and
shortly after this Mr. Condit returned to

New Jersey on account of ill health, re-
taining his connection with the store, how-
ever, as resident buyer, his brother having
retired from the business. Mr. Condit was
also interested in a dry goods business at
Mansfield, Ohio, under the name of A. P.
Condit & Company, this store being in
charge of Captain A. H. Condit, formerly
of Morristown, New Jersey. In 1875 he
retired from the dry goods trade and until
his death, February 1 1, 1912, was a dealer
and broker in real estate, in which he was
rewarded with rare success.

Mr. Condit was connected with the Re-
publican party from its organization. For
eight years he was a member of the Com-
mon Council of the borough of Florham
Park, which was a part of Chatham town-
ship. Morris county, and was also on the
Republican Committee of that borough. In
1881 he transferred his membership to the
First Presbyterian Church of Madison, where
he became a faithful attendant. For seven-
teen years he was a member of the board of
trustees and part of that time acted as presi-
dent of that body. He was made a Master
Mason in Brainard Lodge. No. 336, Fre-
mont, Ohio, and became a Royal Arch Ma-
son in Fremont Chapter, No. 64, of Fre-
mont; he was made a Knight Templar in
Toledo Commandery, No. 7, of Toledo,
Ohio. Mr. Condit also held membership in
the New Jersey Historical Society, and the
Sons of the American Revolution of New
Jersey.

On December 17, 1861, at Hanover, Mor-
ris county, New Jersey, Mr. Condit was
married to Sarah Antoinette Ward, born
September 2, 1839, daughter of Joseph C.
and Eliza (Camp') Ward, who survives him
with the following children : Grace, born
October 14, 1862, married Chester C.
Brown; Henrietta W., born October 15,
1864; Charles B., born December 21, 1865;
two others. Rowland, born in 1868, and
Mortimer B.. born in 1870. died in infancy.

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McCARTER, Thomas Nesbitt,

Prominent Lawyer and Jurist.

Thomas Nesbitt McCarter was for a per-
iod of more than a half century one of the
most distinguished members of the legal
profession in New Jersey, and filled with
distinction many highly responsible and im-
portant offices both by election by the peo-
ple and by choice of corporations and offi-
cials. In his college days he became noted
for his brilliancy in debate, and this gift
of oratory brought him remarkable success
in after years.

Mr. McCarter's lineage was of the best.
His earliest known ancestor, Robert Mc-
Carter, resided in County Donegal, Ireland,
and his son John came to Philadelphia
in 17/4, and at once found a prominent
place in the budding republic. Governor
Bloomfield appointed him surrogate of Mor-
ris county, and later a Master in Chancery ;
subsequently he became clerk of Morris
county, a position he held until his death in
1807. This John McCarter was not only
noted for his honesty and business ability,
but also for his intellect, as his literary
ability had been displayed in frequent con-
tributions to the press both in Ireland and
America.

Robert Harris McCarter, son of John
McCarter, was born March 16, 1793, and
died March 8, 1851. He was appointed as-
sistant to the county clerk, and began the
study of law so that he was able to receive
appointment to that position when not quite
twenty-one years of age. Later he became
judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and
a justice of the peace, presiding for a long
time in Sussex county, and also serving in
the Court of General Quarter Sessions. Af-
ter acting as Supreme Court Commissioner,
in 1840 he was made deputy sheriff. Gov-
ernor Haines appointed him a member of
the Court of Errors and Appeals. He was
a Democrat, and was a delegate to many
State, congressional and county conven-
tions of his party, and was a presidential

elector on the Jackson ticket in 1828. Ik'
had also a large commercial business, and
was a director of the Morris Turnpike
Company. This remarkable instance of con-
tinued success was repeated in the next
generation.

With such an inheritance of the qualities
which make assured the accomplishment of
legal work — force of character, scholarly
instincts, unusual mental capacity, oratorical
gifts and keenness of wit, the profession of
his son, Thomas Nesbitt McCarter, was de-
termined beforehand. He was born Janu-
ary 31, 1824, in Morristown, New Jersey,
and died in Newark, January n, 1901.
After attending the Newton Academy he
was prepared for college by the Rev. Clark-
son Dunn, and entered the junior class of
Princeton at the age of sixteen. Here he
was a prominent member of the debating
society known as the Whig Society, and at
the same time took high rank as a student.
In September, 1842, he was graduated with
honors, was one of the commencement ora-
tors, and five years later received the de-
gree of Master of Arts. His study of law
began in the office of Martin Ryerson, at
Newton, New Jersey, and his admission to
the bar was in October, 1845, as attorney,
and in the following January as a counsellor.
From 1845 to 1853 he was a partner of his
distinguished preceptor, and until the re-
moval of the latter to Trenton, when Mr.
McCarter continued practicing independent-
ly in Newton. Here his industry, integrity
and peculiar fitness rapidly made for him
a large practice. The smallest problem
of litigation was carefully studied, and he
gave closest attention to the minutest detail
of every case. He was made collector of
Sussex county in 1854, and was continued
in that office for three years. In 1862, by a
fortunate union of two political parties, he
was sent to the Assembly, and in that body
was chairman of the committee on ways
and means, prepared a new tax law, and
was in all respects an active and influential
legislator.

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hi iHix), < lovernor < >lden, recognizing .Mr.
McCarter's abilities, tendered iiiin a seat on
the lu-nrli nf tin- Suprc-nie Court, and in
i Soi, tin- offer was ivm-\ved by Governor
\\'ard. On both occasions he declined the
honor, preferring to continue in his practice.
In 1865 he removed to Newark, and met
with continued success. In 1868 he enter-
ed into partnership with Oscar Keen, which
connection continued until 1882. He after-
ward became senior member of the firm of
McCarter. Williamson & McCarter, in
which the junior partners were his sons
Robert II. and Thomas X., and his son-in-
law, Kdwin 15. Williamson. The leading
member of the firm possessed such a high
reputation in both Sussex and Essex coun-
ties that this soon became known as one
of the strongest law firms in the State,
dealing particularly with corporation law.
Mr. McCarter had a commanding presence,
dignified, and the personification of nobility
and justice. His arguments were conducted
with sound and convincing logic. His deep
learning, both with regard to jurisprudence
and literature, his grasp of difficult legal
questions, and his wit and repartee, were
almost unequalled in any of the courts of
the State.

lie fore the outbreak of the Civil War,
Mr. McCarter was nominated as a presi-
dential elector on the Douglas ticket. The
following year he i enounced the party,
whose sentiments as to the war he did not
approve, and in 1864 he advocated the elec-
tion of Lincoln. Since that stormy period,
his sympathies and support were entirely
given to the Republicans, and he was a pres-
idential elector on the Hayes and Wheeler
ticket in 1876. Governor Bedle appointed
him one of the commissioners to determine
the boundary between New York and New
Jersey, other members being Professor
Cook, of Rutgers College, and Hon. Abram
lirowning. of Camden. He became a di-
rector of and counsel for the Sussex Rail-
road Company, while living in Newton, and
for several vears held similar relations with

the Morris Canal and Banking Company,
and he was also a director of the Sussex
bank. Various corporations were glad to
entrust their legal business to him, among
them the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company ;
the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Rail-
road Company, the Morris & Essex Rail-
road Company, the New Jersey Railroad
and Transportation Company, the East Jer-
sey Water Company, the New Jersey Zinc
and Iron Company. He was also a director
of the Peoples' Mutual Insurance Company
of Newark, and the Easton & Amboy Rail-
road Company. He was a trustee of Evelyn
College, and also of Princeton College for
many years. He delivered the annual com-
mencemtnt address in 1868 before the Whig
and Clio societies at Princeton, and in 1875
the institution conferred upon him the hon-
orary degree of Doctor of Laws. He was
also an incorporator of the Dickinson Law
School at Carlisle. Pennsylvania ; fellow of
the American Geographical Society ; vice-
president of the Scotch-Irish Society of
America; and a member of the Washington
Association of Morristown, New Jersey,
and the Princeton Club of New York. He
was an organizer and the only president of
the old Citizens' Law and Order League of
Newark. In religious connections he was a
Presbyterian, and in his nature and life dis-
played the purest Christian principles.

He married Mary Louise, daughter of
L^zal C. Haggerty, of Newton : she died
June 28, 1896, five years before her husband
passed away. Of their six children, Robert
Harris is a practicing lawyer : L'zal H. is
a financier, in Newark ; Thomas N. Jr., a
lawyer, is president of the Public Service
Corporation.

STRONG, Woodbridge,

Member of Prominent Legal Family.

Judge Woodbridge Strong traced his de-
scent from several of the earliest settlers
of the American colonies. Among the di-
rect ancestors were : John Eliot, the

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"Apostle to the Indians ;" Governors Dud-
ley, of Massachusetts ; Leete, of Connecti-
cut ; and Brenton, of Rhode Island. Elder
John Strong, the first of the name of
Strong, came from England in 1(130. and
settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts. From
him the descent is as follows: (I) Thomas
Strong married Rachel Holton (second
wife). (II) Justice Joseph Strong mar-
ried Sarah Allen. (Ill) Captain Joseph
Strong married Elizabeth Strong. (IV)
Rev. Joseph Strong married Jane Gelston.
(V) Rev. Joseph Strong married Sophia
Woodbridge.

(VI) Professor Theodore Strong, son oi
Rev. Joseph and Sophia (Woodbridge)
Strong, was born in South Hadley, Massa-
chusetts, July 26, 1790. He was graduated
from Yale College in 1812 with the first
prize in mathematics. He was professor
of mathematics and natural philosophy at
Hamilton College from 1816 until 1827.
and at Rutgers College from 1827 until
1863, and was one of the most distinguish-
ed mathematicians in the country. He died
at New Brunswick, New Jersey, February
i, 1869. He married, September 23, i8iS,
Lucy, who died November, 1875, daughter
of Rev. John Dix, of Littleton, Massachu-
setts.

(VII) Woodbridge Strong, son of
Professor Theodore and Lucy (Dix)
Strong, was born in Clinton, Oneida coun-
ty, New York, February 21, 1827. He came
to New Brunswick, New Jersey, with his
parents, and has resided there since that
time. He was christened Benjamin Ruggles
Woodbridge Strong, but dropped the first
two names. He entered Rutgers College in
1847, tnen commenced the study of law
with his brother-in-law, Hon. John Van
Dyke, of New Brunswick, afterward a jus-
tice of the Supreme Court. During the
gold fever of 1849 'ie went to California
and was one of the first to discover the gold
in Oregon. Returning to New Jersey in
1851 he resumed his studies and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1852. He was admitted

.v cnun-elnr in November, 1872, and wa-
judge iif Middlesex 1 "dimly Court of Com-
mon I'lca- fnnn 1874 to 1879, and again
from iScjh to 1906.

lie married Harriet A., daughter nf I [on
Jdiiallian I lartwcll, of Littleton, .Massachu-
setts, and a direct descendant of William

Hartwell, who .settled in < o rd, Ma .1

chusetts, in 1(13(1. and of Anthony l)ix, who
came In riymouth. Massachusetts-, in Mu3.
Another of her anceM'Ts \\a> John I lart-
well, who served as a minute-man and was
a private in the company of Captain Hrooks,
in a Massachusetts regiment. Another an-
cestor was Seth Walker, who served with
distinction during the Revolutionary War
as a captain of marines, and afterward rosi
to the rank of colonel in the militia. Among
the children of Woodbridge and Harriet A.
( Hartwell ) Strong were two sons who em-
braced the legal profession — Alan H., grad-
uate of Rutgers College, solicitor of Penn-
sylvania Railroad Company, etc.; and F.d-
ward W., of Cincinnati, Ohio, formerly
counsel for the Baltimore & Ohio, and other
railroad companies.

BRUMLEY, Horace T.,

Financier. Model Citizen.

In any compilation concerning the life
histories of those who have lived in Morris
county, New Jersey, there is signal pro-
priety in recording a memoir to the late
Horace T. Brumley, of Hanover township.
Upon his record in the business world and
as a man among men, there has never been
cast the slightest shadow of wrong. His
father, Joseph Brumley, was a farmer in
Montville. Connecticut.

Horace T. Brumley was born in Mont-
ville, New London county, Connecticut, and
died in Hanover township, Morris county,
New Jersey, April 23, 1910. He was edu-
cated in the schools of New London, Con-
necticut, and at the age of sixteen years ob-
tained a clerkship in the Howard Savings
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institution his entire business career was
iiu mined most closely. He was advanced
consecutively and steadily, until at the time
r,t" liis death In- had been for a number of
years at the head of this institution as its
president. Throughout his entire business
career he was looked upon as a model of
integrity and honor, never making an en-
gagement or promise whose provisions he
did not fulfill, and standing as an exempli-
fication of what may be accomplished by
determination and resolute force in a man
of intrinsic ability and strength of char-
acter— a character dominated by the highest
principles. He was a director of the Na-
tional Newark Bank Company, treasurer of
the Fairmount Cemetery, vice-president of
the Newark Provident Loan Association,
and director in the American Insurance
Company. Politically he was a Republician,
and he was a member of the Masonic fra-
ternity.

Mr. Brumley married, in 1878, Irene,
born in Newark, daughter of Robert J. and
Anna Dow Joralemon Baldwin, and they
had children : Mary C, married Arthur
P.ates Paulmier, of Madison, and has chil-
dren: Horace Brumley and Arthur Bates
Jr. ; Joan D., married William O. Cooper,
now of Maplewood ; Helen, married War-
ren H. Baldwin, of Boonton, and has twins :
Edward Estle and Irene.

DIXON, Jonathan,

Prominent Lawyer and Jurist.

Jonathan Dixon, who in the course of
thirty-one years' service as a Justice of the
Supreme Court of New Jersey attained
wide and enviable distinction as a jurist
of exceptional capacity and high honor, was
a native of Liverpool, England, in which
city he was born July 6, 1839. He was the
son of Jonathan and Ann (Morrison) Dix-
on. The father came to this country in
1848 and was followed by his family two
years later, settling in New Brunswick, New
Jersey. The family was of ancient Eng-

lish lineage and honorable traditions, its
descendants figuring conspicuously in vari-
ous walks of life, both in this country and
abroad.

Jonathan Dixon received his education in
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jer-
sey, entering that institution as a student in
1855, and graduating in 1859. The honor-
ary degree of Doctor of Laws was confer-
red on him in 1878 by Rutgers College, and
he was made trustee of that college in
1886, serving as such for many years. Dur-
ing his collegiate career he was an inmate
of the home of Cornelius L. Hardenburg, a
well-known lawyer, who, having been af-
flicted by blindness, assumed the education
of the lad, who in the meantime acted as his
benefactor's amanuensis and personal at-
tendant. On the completion of his collegiate
course the young man took up the study
of law, for which he had a natural taste and
marked aptitude, serving as a student-at-
law in various offices, and at the same time
finding means of livelihood as a school
teacher. Admitted as an attorney in 1862,
he became a counsellor-at-law three years
later. Immediately after his admission as
an attorney he removed to Jersey City, New
Jersey, where he entered the law office of
E. E. Wakeman, forming a copartnership
with that gentleman in the spring of 1864.
This professional relationship continued for
a year, at the end of which time Mr. Dixon
established a practice of his own. For five
years he followed his profession alone, ac-
quiring a high and enviable reputation as
;• learned and careful practitioner in whose
hands the interests of clients were well
guarded and intelligently represented. He
then formed a partnership with Gilbert
Collins, who afterward became a Justice
of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, an
honor that fell to Mr. Dixon in 1875, when
he was appointed to that judicial position
by Governor Beadle. He acquitted him-
self of his new responsibilities with a dig-
nity and strength that left nothing to be
desired, and in 1882, when his term expired,

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he was reappointed by Governor Ludlow.
Again, in 1889, he was named by Governor
Green for the place that he so well and
honorably filled, and he was subsequently
reappointed by Governor Griggs and Mur-
phy in 1896 and 1903 respectively, being still
on the bench when he died, his term not
expiring until 1910. At the time of his
death he filled the circuit comprising Hud-
son county. As a jurist he possessed those
qualities of mind and that keen intelligence
which are essential to the duties of the posi-
tion ; fair and impartial in his decisions,
learned in his legal interpretations, and up-
right as a man, he reflected honor upon the
bench that he adorned. He was a Republi-
can in his political convictions, and in 1883
was his party's nominee for Governor of
the State, being defeated by Leon Abbet.

Justice Dixon married Elizabeth M. Price,
daughter of Henry M. Price, by whom he
had one son, Warren Dixon, who inherited
his father's legal talents to a marked de-
gree and has attained prominence in the
same profession, winning recognition and
prestige as one of the leading members of
the Hudson county bar. He was survived
also by his widow and eight daughters —
Mary M., wife of Millard F. Ross ; Jessie
L., wife of Francis J. McCoy; Elsie, wife
of Lewis E. Carr Jr. ; Bertha, wife of
James Crowell ; Laura, Helen and Velma
Dixon, and Elizabeth, wife of Robert C.
Post, at whose home in Englewood, New
Jersey, he died, May 21, 1906.

VROOM, Judge Garret D. W.,

Distinguished Jurist, Litterateur.

The late Judge Garret Dorset Wall
Vroom, of New Jersey, copied with dis-
tinction the virtues and acquirements of his
forbears, and proved himself worthy to bear
a name already of such prominence. He
was a great-grandson of George and Gar-
retje (Dumont) Vroom; a grandson of
Colonel Peter D. Vroom, of Revolutionary
fame, and his wife, Elsie (Bogart) Vroom.

( '"lonel Vroom was one of the first to raise
a company with which he joiiu'il tin- Con-
tinental army, and he served throughout
the war, rising to the rank of lieutenant-
colonel. For a long time lie served as a
member of the New Jersey Assembly and
Council, and died in 1831. His son. Gov-
ernor Peter Dumont Vroom, was born in
Hillsborough township, New Jersey, 1 ><•-
cember 12, 1791, and died in Trenton, New
Jersey, November 18, 1873. He is written
of at length on another page of this work.
He married (first) 1820, Anna, daughter of
Peter B. Dumont; (second) Matilda M.,
daughter of General Carrot D. Wall. Chil-
dren : Peter Dumont, served with distinc-
tion in the Civil War, and was retired as
brigadier-general in 1903 ; and

Judge Garret Dorset Wall Vroom, who
was born December 17, 1843, ul Trenton,
New Jersey, and died in the same city, at
his home, No. 159 West State street. March
4, 1914. When he was about ten years of
age, his father was appointed Minister to
Prussia, and during the time the family
lived in Berlin young Vroom attended the
French Gymnasia there. Upon returning
to Trenton he became a student at the Tren-
ton Academy, and after a preparatory edu-
cation there, entered Rutgers College, from
which he was graduated in the class of 1862.
He commenced the study of law in the office
of his father, was admitted to the bar as an
attorney in 1865, as a counsellor in 1868,
and later became a special master in chan-
cery. He established himself in the prac-
tice of his profession in Trenton, and was
identified with the interests of that city until
his death. His ability was of so high an
order that it immediately won him recog-
nition. He was elected city solicitor in 1866,
held the office until 1870, was re-elected in
1873, and served until 1876. In May. 1870,
he was appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas
of Mercer county, to succeed General C.
Hall, deceased, held this office until Decem-
ber, 1873, when he resigned in order to as-
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preme Court of New Jersey, his father hav-
ing held the office before him, and was an
incumbent of this until his death.

His work in the field of literature was in
some directions of inestimable value. In as-
• K iation with John H. Stewart he prepared
for publication "The Revision of the Stat-
utes of New Jersey." This was done in
1877, under the direction of commissioners,
and included, with the statutes revised, the
entire body of the statute laws of the State.
In 1887 a "Supplement" to the "Revision"
was issued, in collaboration with Hon. Wil-
liam L. Lanning. In 1894, both were au-
thorized to prepare a new revision in three
volumes, entitled "The General Statutes of
New Jersey," and includes all laws up to
January i, 1896. Many other publications
were also issued under his supervision.

Judge Yroom served as mayor of the city
of Trenton from iSSi to 1884, and when the
city created a Board of Public Works he
served as president of that body during its
existence. In 1900 he was appointed to a
seat on the Supreme Bench by Governor
Voorhees, but this he declined. When Judge
Hendrickson was advanced to a seat in the
Supreme Court, a vacancy was caused in the
Court of Errors and Appeals, and Governor
\ oorhees appointed Judge Vroom to fill this
office. He was, appointed for a full term of
six years, February 5, 1901, the nomination
being confirmed by the Senate seven days
later. In 1907 he was reappointed to this
office by Governor Stokes, and continued in
it until he resigned early in 1914. Wherever
and whenever there was good and important
work to be done, Judge Vroom was in de-
mand. He was for years a member from
New Jersey of the National Commission to
Promote the Uniformity of Laws Through-
out the United States ; president of the Com-
mission for the Revision of the Statutes for
many years ; member of the Board of Par-
dons ; member of the New Jersey Historical
Society : president and manager of the Tren-
ton Savings Fund Society; president of the
Kurd of the Trenton School of Industrial

Arts; member of the Holland Society of
New York ; American Bar Association,
State Bar Association, Mercer County Bar
Association ; president of the board of man-
agers of the New Jersey State Hospital for
the Insane ; vice-president of the General
Society of the Sons of the Revolution, was
president for some years and was active in
organizing the New Jersey branch ; an hon-
orary member of the Society of the Cincin-
nati, member of the Delta Phi fraternity,
and of other organizations. He was the
senior of the law firm of Vroom, Dickinson
& Bodine. He was one of the foremost
lawyers of the State, and while he was ac-
tively identified with trial cases in the earli-
er portion of his career, in later years he
acted mainly as counsel in important cases.
He was considered an authority in many di-
rections, especially in precedent, corpora-
tion and commercial law. Many men who
later achieved prominence in the legal pro-
fession studied under Judge Vroom, among
them being Chancellor Edwin Robert Walk-
er ; William S. Gummere, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court ; Prosecutor Martin E.
Devlin ; William M. Johnson, former State
Senator and Assistant Postmaster General
at Washington ; Wallace M. Scudder, editor
of the "Newark Evening News" ; Nelson L.
Petty, trust officer with the Trenton Trust
and Safe Deposit Company; John M. Zis-
gen, assemblyman, and solicitor of Bergen
county ; Edward W. Maxwell, at one time
assistant corporation counsel of New York
City; Frederick W. Stelle, formerly assist-
ant corporation counsel of New York City ;
Gouverneur V. Packer ; Counselor Francis
B. Lee ; the late William R. Piper, who was
assistant prosecutor ; Anthony S. Brennen ;
and many others, equally noteworthy. Only
a short time prior to his death, Judge
Yroom issued the fifty-fifth volume of his
law reports.

Judge Vroom was interested in the devel-
opment of the pottery industry in Trenton,
and with the late A. M. Maddock was one
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School of Industrial Arts there. At his
home he had a fine collection of rare pottery
and china. His collection of books made his
library the finest private one in the city of
Trenton, and probably in the east. It con-
tained many volumes of rare merit, not
alone for their literary contents, but as spec-
imens of the bookbinder's art. Dickens was
his especial favorite in the world of fiction,
and Napoleonic literature also had an espe-
cial fascination for him. One of his favorite
forms of recreation was the extra-illustra-
tion of books, and this held his attention al-
most to his last hours. Another fine collec-
tion was his valuable one of manuscript let-
ters, including autographic letters of each
signer of the Declaration of Independence,
and of each President of the United States.
He was regarded as an expert in handwrit-
ing, his knowledge in this direction proving
of great value in legal cases. A great lover
of nature, he spent considerable time in the
garden of his Trenton residence, overlook-
ing the Delaware river, where his fine col-
lection of roses attracted visitors from far
and near. He was charitable to a degree,
but his charities were bestowed in a quiet
and unostentatious manner.

Judge Yroom married, in June, 1871, a
daughter of Philemon Dickinson, of Tren-
ton, and great-granddaughter of General
Philemon Dickinson, a member of the Con-
tinental Congress of New Jersey, and ma-
jor-general commanding the militia of New
Jersey during the Revolutionary War.

WRIGHT, Edwin R. V.,

Lawyer, Congressman.

It is seldom that one with a great diversi-
ty of gifts is capable of winning distinction
in all. An exception is found in the late Ed-
win R. V. Wright — soldier, journalist and
legislator, — whose talents were usefully em-
ployed in all these various callings.

Edwin R. V. Wright was born January
2, 1812, in Hoboken, New Jersey, and re-
ceived an academic education. After leav-

ing school he took up the trade of printer,
and in 1835, when he was twenty-three
years did, he edited and published "The Jer-
sey Blue." But Mr. Wright's attention was
called to the law, and he engaged in the
study of this profession and was admitted
to the bar in 1839. He took an energetic
part in the affairs of the community, and
four years later was elected to the New Jer-
sey State Senate, an office which he used
to further his campaign in the cause of edu-
cation. He was a strong advocate of the
present system of New Jersey schools,
which was then under consideration, and he
brought the full strength uf his influence to
bear for its introduction. In 1851 he was
appointed District Attorney for Hudson
n unity, and held this office for five years.

Air. Wright, not content with his liter-
ary, legal and legislative labors, a sufficient
task, one would think, for most men, had
entered the National Guard of New Jer-
sey, in which service he rose until he became
and was for several years major-general of
militia, commanding the Second Division
of the State Guard. During these active
years in the service of his fellow citizens,
General Wright's popularity had been stead-
ily on the increase, and in 1859 the Demo-
cratic party chose him as their logical can-
didate for Governor of the State. General
Wright accepted the nomination and made
a vigorous campaign, but was defeated by
a small majority in the election by Charles
S. Olden, his Republican opponent. He was
elected to the United States House of Rep-
resentatives in the Thirty-ninth Congress,
serving during his term on the House com-
mittee on appropriations, and on the special
committee appointed on the death, of Pres-
ident Lincoln. Mr. Wright's death occur-
red in Jersey City, on January 19, 1876.

WARD, Leslie Dodd, M. D.,

Prominent in Life Insurance Affairs.

Leslie Dodd Ward, son of Moses Dodd
and Justina Louisa (Sayre) Ward, was

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born in Afton, Morris county. New Jer-
sey, July i, 1845. He received his early
education in the village school at home,
and then, with the intention of afterwards
going to Prince-tun University, entered the
Newark Academy. In 1863, when General
Robert E. Lee made his magnificent march
into Pennsylvania which formed the climax
of the Confederate success, and created such
intense and widespread alarm through the
northern States, the Governor of New Jer-
sey, in answer to the appeal of the invaded
State, called for volunteers to go to the aid
"f Pennsylvania. The answer to this call
was eleven companies of seven hundred
men and officers. One of the corporals of
Company F of this regiment, Captain Wil-
liam J. Roberts commanding, was Leslie
D. Ward. In the fall of the same year,
the campaign being ended, young Ward re-
turned for the completion of his academic
course. On his graduation in the following
year he enlisted as one of the hundred-day
men, being enrolled June 13, 1864, mustered
in on the 23d of the same month, and being
mustered out the ensuing October.

Whether his thoughts had already been
directed towards a medical career or not
previously to his military service, it was
his experience in the camp and field with
the sick and wounded that finally determin-
ed him to adopt the life of a physican.
Consequently, shortly after his return from
the war, he entered the office of Dr. Fisher,
of Morristown, where he prepared himself
to enter the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons in New York. From this institution
hi' graduated in 1868, and immediately be-
gan practicing in Newark, associating him-
self with Dr. Lott Southard, of that city,
with whom he continued to practice for two
years, at the end of which time he opened
an office for himself. By this time Dr.
Ward had become well and favorably
known, and his practice steadily increased
not only among the rich and well-to-do, but
also among the less wealthy and poorer
classes of society. From his experiences

with these latter classes especially, Dr. Ward
gained his large insight into the lives of
people and became familiar with their most
urgent needs and necessities. The allevia-
tion of these wants and distresses, and
the best means of aiding people in sickness
and times of death, now became one of the
cherished aims and great problems of his
life, and he found their realization and
solution in the idea of the Prudential In-
surance Company of America, or, as it was
at first known, the Prudential Friendly So-
ciety. The object and methods of this
company were at that time ( 1873) entirely
new to the insurance world. It proposed to
offer insurance to the industrial classes on
healthy lives, both male and female, from
one to seventy-five years of age. Policies
are issued from ten dollars to five hundred
dollars, and the premiums collected weekly
at the homes of the insured. A special
feature of the business and one in which
Dr. Ward was particularly interested, is
that all policies are payable at death or
within twenty-four hours after satisfactory
proofs of death are furnished to the com-
pany, in order that the money may be im-
mediately available for funeral expenses
and those incurred for medical attendance.
In ten years the success of the new method
was phenomenal. It had issued nearly nine
hundred thousand policies, paid fifteen thou-
sand claims, amounting to over $875,000,
and had accumulated a large amount of as-
sets and a handsome surplus. The original-
ly subscribed capital of the company, $30.-
ooo, had also been increased to $106,000,
all paid up. In this work, Dr. Ward was
one of the most active laborers, and the
present president of the company. John F.
Dryden, says that it is "largely in conse-
quence of Dr. Ward's untiring efforts that a
strong board of directors was secured and
the necessary financial support obtained
from men whose standing in the commercial
world was second to none." From the
outset, Dr. Ward was the medical director
of the company and Mr. Dryden's associate

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in putting it upon a firm foundation. Tn
1884 he was elected first vice-president, in
place of Hon. Henry J. Yates, ex-mayor
of Newark, who had been elected treasurer.
As the company's medical director, Dr.
Ward had from the beginning shown ex-
ceptional skill and ability in managing the
field operations of the company, and while
still occupying his former position he de-
voted himself as vice-president with
much energy to the outside devel-
opment of the company's interests.
During late years Dr. Ward has
been the executive manager of the com-
pany's field force, and Hoffman's "His-
tory of the Prudential" says that "it is not
too much to say that much of the success
which the company has achieved has been
the result of his exceptional ability and
devotion to the interests of the company
and to the promotion of its welfare." In
1876 Dr. Ward became a member of the
medical board of St. Michael's Hospital,
the oldest institution of its kind in Newark,
and for seven years he was its secretary.
He was at this time also visiting surgeon
of St. Barnabas Hospital. Before 1876 the
duties now performed by the county phy-
sician of Essex county had for the most
part been done by coroners and magistrates ;
but in 1877, by the appointment of Dr.
Ward to the office of county physician, the
present state of things was inaugurated.
Dr. Ward's residence is 1058 Broad street,
Newark, and his country home is "Brook-
lake Park," Madison, New Jersey.

He was a delegate from New Jersey to
the Republican National Convention in Phil-
adelphia, June, 1900, and a member of the
committee notifying Mr. McKinley of his
nomination for his second term. He was
also a member of the Chicago convention
nominating and the committee notifying
Mr. Roosevelt of his nomination for second
term, and again delegate to Chicago in
1008, and one of the vice-presidents of the
Republican national committee. His clubs
are the Union League of New York, Essex

of Newark, I'.ssex County Country ( 'Iu!>.
Tuxedo Club of Tuxedo, Automobile Club
of America, Whippany River Club of Mor-
ristown, Morris County Country Golf ( 'lui>,
Morristown Club and the Flatbrook Valley
Club. March 5, 1874, he married Minnie,
daughter of James Perry, of Newark, and
has had two children : Leslie Perry Ward,
and Herbert E. Ward, married Nancy
Currier.

BEASLEY, Mercer,

Jnrlst of Commanding Ability.

Of this eminent man, Mr. Cortlandt Park-
er said: "He was always in fact, I think,
Chief Justice. He recognized the duties of
that position and filled them. He guarded
sedulously pleading and practice. He was
not disposed to technicality, but he was
nevertheless mindful of its importance to
exact justice, and justice in the particular
case was his great end and aim. He had
a natural and implacable sense of right,
but there has never been a judge on our
bench, perhaps, who was so cold and steel -
like in his logic and who followed so un-
swervingly where it led. In my own judg-
ment, this was the point of danger with
him. His decisions are models of perspicu-
ity and terseness and they are always to
the point."

Mercer Beasley was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1815. and died February
19, 1897. His birth occurred while his
father, the Rev. Frederick Beasley, was
provost of the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1830 his father received and accepted
a call to be rector of St. Michael's Church,
in Trenton, New Jersey. Mercer Beasley
had been prepared for college by his father,
and went to Princeton for a year or two and
then continued his studies under him in
Trenton until 1834. In that year he began
to serve his clerkship in the office of Samuel
L. Southard, who was then in the United
States Senate and was engaged also in prac-
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Williamsc in had then returned to the bar,
and Mr. Measley completed his studies in
his office. Mr. Beasley received his license
as attorney at the September term, 1838,
and was admitted as counselor at the Febru-
ary term, 1842.

It is said that for ten years after this he
did not give much of his time to the study
or practice of the law except in the trial
of cases in justices' courts, where, in fact,
many sharp legal contests were carried on
in those days. He was fond of shooting,
and was an excellent marksman on the
wing, and never lost his skill nor his love
fur the sport. He was a capital billiard
player, and greatly enjoyed the game. He
enjoyed, too, the contests in the justice^'
courts, and they were no bad training school
for an advocate, but it was not until about
1849 that Mr. Beasley showed much taste
for books or inclination for the study of
law, and then, having made up his mind to
excel in his profession, he became an in-
quiring and industrious student, looking
thoroughly into the legal questions that
came up in his practice, and devoting ill
his energies to the work of a lawyer. He
gathered books of his own and had the use
of the State Library. He did not cultivate
an office practice, but saw his clients on the
street, where they waited for him. He was
occupied in the daytime with trials in the
justices' courts and study in the library,
spending the evenings in his office. His
office in 1850 was on West State street,
near Warren, and subsequently he built a
house in East State street, where he lived
for the remainder of his days, and his
office adjoined his house.

Mr. Beasley ran for mayor, and for the
Assembly as a Whig, and was defeated.
He served as city solicitor and president
of the Common Council. On the death of
Edward W. Whepley, Mr. Beasley was ap-
pointed Chief Justice, March 8, 1864, was
reappointed again and again, and held the
office until his death. He was forty-nine
years of age when he went upon the bench,

and presided there until he was nearly
eighty-three. The record of his judicial
decisions is contained in twenty-nine vol-
umes of the law reports and thirty-seven
of the cases in equity. He was a man of
commanding ability, and was easily chief
among his equals in both the high courts.
To use the words of Mr. Justice Collins,
in the .Supreme Court, on the day of his
death : "Presiding over our highest legal
tribunal with courtly dignity and matchless
tkill, he added lustre to the bright record
of his distinguished predecessors."

In his administrations of the business of
the Supreme Court he promoted prompt-
ness and efficiency on the bench and at the
bar, insisting upon the observance of the
rules of practice, having always in mind
the doing of justice in the particular case.
He was courteous to counsel, and patient
even with the dullest and the most exasper-
ating, maintaining the dignity of the pro-
ceedings and deference to the court. In
hearing arguments he was quick to grasp
the essentials of the case, and by penetrat-
ing questions brought counsel to the point
to which the argument should be directed.
In presiding over trials on the Circuit and
in the Oyer and Terminer, the Chief Justice
was strong and patient, dignified and courte-
ous. His charges to the jury were simple
and clear and directly to the point, and
these were free from the unusual words
and the subtlety of reasoning which are
found in some of his written opinions. He
retained his powers and kept on with his
work to the end of his long life, and his
last opinion in the Supreme Court was an-
nounced by his associates on the day before
his death. There is in the Supreme Court
room in Trenton a very fine portrait of
Chief Justice Beasley, by J. W. Alexander.

Mercer Beasley married (first) Miss Hig-
bie, and ("second) Miss Havens, both of
Trenton. By his first wife he had three chil-
dren— a son, Mercer Beasley Jr., a mem-
ber of the bar, and later Prosecutor of the
Pleas of Mercer county ; and two daughters,

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one of whom became the wife of the late
Edward T. Green, Judge of the United
States District Court, and the other the
wife of William S. Gummere, a Chief Jus-
tice of New Jersey. Chauncey Havens
Beasley, of the Essex bar, was a son of his
second wife.

PECK, Cyrus,

Financier, Leader in Public Improvements.

For many years a prominent and repre-
sentative citizen of Essex county, New Jer-
sey, who was closely identified with import-
ant financial and other interests of the State,
it is particularly appropriate that Cyrus
Peck, late of Roseville, should be accorded
mention in this work. He was a direct
descendant of Henry Peck, who emigrated
from England, and arrived at Boston, Mas-
sachusetts, in 1637. Later he became one
of the founders of the New Haven Colony
Cyrus Peck was of the eighth generation
of his family in this country.

Aaron Peck, his father, was born in East
Orange, New Jersey, March 2, 1798, and
died there April 8, 1865. He was a hat
manufacturer in Millburn, New Jersey, and
was president and principal owner of the
Sussex railroad, now a branch of the Del-
aware, Lackawanna & Western railroad.
He was a member of the Essex County Mi-
litia from 1819 to 1825, holding rank as
captain of the Fourth District Company,
First Battalion, Fifth Regiment. In 1838
Governor William Pennington appointed
him a Master in Chancery. He married
Miranda Pierson.

Cyrus Peck was born in East Orange,
New Jersey, November i, 1829, and died at
his home in Roseville, May 6, 1907. On
the completion of his education, which was
a liberal one, he entered the wholesale boot
and shoe house of J. H. Ransom & Com-
pany, of New York, remaining with them
six years. On the organization of the New
Jersey Express Company, about 1854, Mr.
Peck became its treasurer. (This company

was later merged with the Adams Express
Company). In 1857 he entered the Conti-
nental Insurance Company, of New York,
with which he was connected for more than
forty years, occupying successively the of-
fices of secretary, second vice-president,
vice-president and treasurer. He was one
of the organizers of the City Trust
Company of Newark in 1901, and was in
office as its president until the time of his
death. For a considerable time he had
been vice-president of the Newark Board
of Trade, and his services in this connection
were highly appreciated and of inestimable
value. Mr. Peck became a resident of Rose-
ville, now known as the Eleventh Ward of
Newark in 1854, and in 1857, when the
ward was created, he was elected its first
representative in the Board of Education,
and served two successive terms in this of-
fice. In 1892 he was one of the leading
spirits in the Citizen's Committee which se-
cured in 1894 the passage of the legislation
resulting in the establishment of the Park
System of Essex county. In 1897 he joined
with other heirs of Aaron Peck in present-
ing to Essex county a valuable tract of
land, now a part of the middle division of
the Branch Brook Park. In the same year
the Hon. David A. Depue, justice of the
Supreme Court of New Jersey, appointed
Mr. Peck as the first president of the Essex
County Park Board, an office he held twelve
years. He was one of the incorporators of
the Roseville Presbyterian Church in 1853,
serving as president of the board of trustees
until 1883, and from that time until his
death as elder. His connections with other
organizations were : Vice-president of the
Newark Board of Trade, as mentioned
above : member of the New England So-
ciety of Orange. New Jersey ; trustee of
the New- Jersey Historical Society, and
a life member of this body : trustee of
the Washington Headquarters Associa-
tion of New Jersey, at Morristown; mem-
ber of the Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution : member and treas-

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tircr of the Committee of Presbyterial
Church Extension in the Presbytery of
Newark.

Mr. Peck on January 27, 1853, mar-
lied Mary Picton Halsey, daughter of Rev.
John Taylor Halsey, one of the most prom-
inent educators of his time; granddaughter
of Captain Luther Halsey, of the Revolu-
tionary forces, and a descendant of Thomas
Halsey, one of the founders of Southamp-
ton, Long Island, in 1640. Their children
were : Helen Oakley, Edward Halsey, Wil-
liam Halsey, Edith Mary and Cyrus Cur-
tis, who died in infancy. The life of Mr.
Peck was a quiet, modest and un-
assuming one. His prominence was
due to the possession of those ster-
ling qualities which everywhere com-
mand respect — honesty in business affairs,
justice in public life, an unfailing courtesy
in social circles, and a record that must ever
be a source of pride and satisfaction to his
descendants. Entirely free from ostenta-
tion, without self-seeking, he was a true
American citizen, loyal to his country, his
church and his friends.

On the 24th of May, 1914, a memorial
window of great beauty entitled "Easter
Morn" was dedicated in the Roseville Pres-
byterian Church to the memory of Mr. and
Mrs. Peck, who were charter members of
this church. It was designed and executed
by the Tiffany Studios of New York, after
the famous picture of Axel Ender in the
Parish Giurch at Molde, Norway.

WHITEHEAD, John,

Lawyer, Litterateur.

John Whitehead was not a native of
New Jersey, but that State was the scene of
all his activities. Born in Jersey, Licking
county, Ohio, September 6, 1819. he was
in early life deprived by death of a father's
care, and his boyhood years were passed in
the home of his uncle, Hon. Asa Whitehead,
a leading member of the bar, practicing in
Newark. After receiving a thorough acad-

emical education, he became a law student
in the office of his uncle, and was admitted
to the bar in September, 1840. He at once
engaged in practice, in association with his
uncle, remaining until 1843, when he open-
ed an office for himself. In 1856 he was
appointed a United States Commissioner
for the District of New Jersey, and in this
capacity it became his duty to investigate
complaints of the violation of Federal
statutes, and his patience and breadth of
legal knowledge made him a most admir-
able committing magistrate.

During his long practice, Mr. Whitehead
never sought political or other honors out-
side his profession, the only temptation to
which he yielded being the indulgence of
his literary tastes. He had a strong sym-
pathy for the colored race, although never
a pronounced abolitionist, and took great
interest in furthering efforts to obtain their
freedom. His lectures on history and philo-
logy evinced deep research and great fa-
miliarity with those subjects, and he made
valuable contributions to the legal litera-
ture of the State. His "Judicial and Civil
History of New Jersey" f 1897) was a most
valuable work, and has a lasting value. The
cause of education always found in him an
earnest advocate. He was a member of
the Public School Committee of Newark
as early as 1845, its early meetings being
held in his private office. In 1851, after
the legislature had enlarged its powers as
the Board of Education, its meetings were
still held at the same place. Mr. Whitehead
being secretary and treasurer until 1855.
The people of Clinton township, of which
he then became a resident, immediately
availed themselves of his devotion to the
cause of education, by selecting him for
their school superintendent, which position
he held for four years. He was for a long
time secretary of the State Society of
Teachers and Friends of Education, and in
it? interest spent much of his leisure time
visiting different parts of the State, endeav-
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the importance of furnishing their children
with better educational advantages. He was
also a prominent member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Educa-
tion, composed of the most distinguished
educators and men of learning in the coun-
try. When it was decreed by an Act of the
Legislature that school examiners should be
appointed in the different counties of the
State, Mr. Whitehead was selected for Es-
sex county, holding that office until the act
was repealed.

Mr. Whitehead removed in 1861 to Mor-
ristown, which was thereafter his place of
residence until his death. There, after
years of unflagging zeal and patient labor,
he had the satisfaction of seeing the Mor-
ristown Library opened to the public, on
August 14, 1876 — an institution which at
once entered upon a constant development,
to the great advantage of the community.
With indomitable perseverance he watched
over its growth, advancing its interests in
countless ways, and all of its thousands of
books collected during his administration,
were selected under his immediate supervi-
sion. His enthusiasm in this work was
unbounded. It would doubtless have been
the great sorrow of his life had he lived
to witness the burning of the Library (Feb-
ruary 23, 1914), and the total loss of its
more than thirty thousand volumes and its
great collection of historical papers and
records reaching back to the colonial and
revolutionary periods. The pecuniary loss
was large (about $75,000 covered measur-
ably well by insurance), but the value of
the papers and records is not to be measur-
ed in terms of monetary value. Mr. White-
head was president of the Library corpor-
ation at the time of his death.

In 1891 Mr. Whitehead was chosen pres-
ident of the New Jersey Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution, founded
in 1889, an outgrowth of the patriotic senti-
ment engendered by the centennial celebra-
tion of the inauguration of Washington as
the chief executive of the nation. During

the successive years that he held that posi-
tion Mr. Whitrhead's genial social <|ii:ili-
ties and enthusiastic patriotism were largely
instrumental in increasing the membership
of the Miciety. In 1893 he was elected one
of the vice-presidents of the national so-
ciety. He vva- an elder of the First I'res-
byterian Cliurch, of Mnrristown. and gave
much service in teaching in the Sundax
school. He was familiarly called "Judge,"
through his long and active service as a
LTnited States Commissioner. He died
February 14, 1905.

Mr. Whitehead married, in 1843, Kath-
arine A., daughter of David Mills; she
was a beautiful and accomplished woman.
They left one daughter. Katharine A.
Whitehead.

At a meeting of the directors of The
Morristown Library and Lyceum, held
February 17, 1905, a minute, prepared by
Alfred Mills Esq., and reported by Messrs.
Alfred Mills. John E. Taylor and Henry C.
Pitney Jr.. committee, was adopted and re-
corded, and from which the following ex-
tracts are taken :

He established his office in Newark, and con-
tinued the practice of law there up to the time
of his death. He won an enviable position in his
profession, being a learned lawyer, a wise coun-
selor and an earnest advocate. He was very fond
of general literature, and was an historian by in-
stinct. New Jersey is much indebted to him for
the valuable historical and biographical books
which he has written and published. A clear and
graceful writer, he wrote and published many
meritorious articles and letters upon subjects of
interest to all intelligent citizens. To the ad-
vancement of public education he gave much
time and work. He loved books, as we all know.
A good library was an elysium to him.

In 1861, Mr. Whitehead removed his family
residence from Newark to Morristown and be-
came one of the best known and highly esteemed
citizens of this place. He soon became much in-
terested in the work of starting a public library
in Morristown. He drew an act for the incorpor-
ation of "The Morristown Library and Lyceum,"
which was passed by the legislature of our State
and approved on the 6th of March, 1866. The
preamble of the charter refers to the fact that an
association had been formed in Morristown, "hav-

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ing in view the establishment of a public library,
with rooms for reading and other literary pur-
poses, and the erection or purchase of a suitable
edifice for the objects of such association, so as
to promote the education of the young and other
persons who may desire to be benefitted thereby.
in science, literature and the arts." In the first
section of the charter, Mr. Whitehead is named as
one of the commissioners to receive subscriptions
to the capital stock of said association This pro-
ject was a novel one in Morristown. Mr. White-
head w.as most earnest and persistent in his ef-
forts to arouse public interest in and popular de-
mand for such an institution. By writing and
publishing articles in the newspapers, by addresses
at such meetings at which a subject of this nature
could be properly considered, and by personal ap-
peals to individuals, he succeeded in arousing the
interest of our community in the proposed insti-
tution. He did far more than all others put to-
gether in bringing about this result. Mr. White-
lirad was foremost in the strenuous and persistent
efforts that resulted in the erection and comple-
tion of our building on South Street, and in its
opening for public use in the month of August,
1878.

He succeeded, in the office of president, Mr.
William L. King, who died in 1897, and was most
efficient in selecting and securing the large and
valuable library which we now have. We shall
greatly miss him and his intelligent and efficient
work.

RICORD, Frederick William,

Educator, Litterateur, Public Official.

Frederick William Ricord, son of Jean
Baptiste Ricord and Elizabeth (Stryker)
Ricord, was born in Guadeloupe, West
Indies, October 7, 1819. and died in New-
ark, New Jersey, August 13, 1897.

He represented several lines of descent,
including the Holland Dutch of his mater-
nal grandfather, whose family settled in
New Amsterdam in 1652, where Jan Stry-
ker, of Ruiven, the first bearer of the name
to come to America, was a man of no little
importance, and later was the founder of a
Dutch colony on Long Island, the modern
name of which is Flatbush. Jan Stryker
was its first chief magistrate and served as
such for twenty years. This family was
one both ancient and honorable in Holland.

Of its pedigree, fourteen descents are given
in Holland down to 1791. Of the French
line of Mr. Ricord's ancestry, it may be
said to include Huguenot and Girondist
blood, the French Revolution being chiefly
responsible for his emigration to America,
his grandfather Ricord having fled to this
country in 1793 to escape, with his young
wife and little children, the horrors of that
terrible era.

Jean Baptiste, father of Mr. Ricord, bore
the family title of Madianna, which belong-
ed to him as the eldest son. He graduated
from the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of New York, and practiced medicine
in this country and in his home in the
Wi-st Indies. He was the author of several
valuable scientific works.

Mrs. Elizabeth Ricord, wife of Dr.
Ricord, was a pioneer in the higher educa-
tion of women, the friend and associate of
Mary Lyman, Emma Willard and other
early educators. Bereft of husband and left
with four sons to educate, she returned
from the West Indies to the United States
to give to her boys the advantages of a
Christian land and civilization. In that day
it was not customary for women to face
the world as now may be done, without
call for special effort and courage. Delicate-
ly reared, the daughter of a clergyman
(Rev. Peter Stryker), accustomed through-
out married life abroad to the dependent
life of a large slaveholder. Mrs. Ricord
came to America to fight her way, with an
entire change of environment. At once she
decided upon the life of a teacher as that
which, while supporting herself, would also
be helpful to others. To this end she
opened a school in Woodbridge, New Jer-
sey, where her youngest son died. As her
worldly means increased, she was enabled
to realize in larger degree the idea which
had long been uppermost in her mind in
relation to her labors as a teacher — that of
establishing a school where young women
might have educational advantages greater
than any afforded by the schools of her

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girlhood. To this end she opened in
Geneva, New York, in 1829, her seminary
for young women, in which institution an
education was made possible for women that
was equal to the higher schools for young
men. She was eminently successful in her
undertaking ; her seminary took first rank,
and its pupils were numbered by hundreds
during the many years of its existence.

As an immediate result of her undertak-
ing, Mrs. Ricord was enabled to send her
three remaining sons through college, and
give two of them professional training, one
as a lawyer, the other as a physician.

Frederick William, the youngest son,
entered Hobart College and matriculated
at Rutgers College, completed a law course,
and was admitted to the bar of the State of
New York. He did not follow the law, howj
ever, but, having married, located in New-
ark, New Jersey, and occupied his time with
literary pursuits, as a writer for magazines
and newspapers, and finally as an author.
As a public officer he was above bribe or
corruption ; jealous in his adherence to right,
no man could make of him a tool. Through
his action hundreds of thousands of dollars
were saved to the city and to its inhabitants
as individuals. As State Superintendent of
Public Schools, he did much to systematize
the educational affairs of the common-
wealth. During the seventeen years of his
connection with the Board of Education
of Newark he also performed invaluable
work. Although offered chairs in many
well known colleges and universities, he
preferred to remain in the city of his choice,
and accepted none of the proffered posi-
tions, although he was not insensible to
the honors within his reach. Nor would
he ever accept a seat in the Legislature of
his State or that of the nation, though both
were offered to him.

From boyhood, Mr. Ricord belonged to
the church of his Holland ancestors, but
was for the last forty years of his life a

Presbyterian. For many year- he was su-
perintendent of one of the first Sunday
schools for colored children in the city.

During the fifty-four years of his resi-
dence in Newark, Mr. Ricord occupied the
various positions and offices of librarian of
the Newark Library Association, president
of the Board of Education, State Superin-
tendent of Public Schools, sheriff of Essex
county, mayor of the city of Newark, judge
of various courts, and librarian and treas-
urer of the New Jersey Historical Society.
He was a member and master of St. John's
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and
connected with many literary and educa-
tional bodies both in his own and other
States. He was the author of many works,
and translator of many more. His "Youths'
Grammar" and "History of Rome" were
for many years leading textbooks in the
schools of the land. He was emphatically
a linguist, being master of fourteen langu-
ages and dialects, and during his long life
of literary work was editor of various mag-
azines, papers and historical and biogra-
phical works. His political life was with-
out stain. In his social life he was known
and loved as a man of pure life and noble
thought, of warm heart and courteous bear-
ing, a man to whom the pomps and vanitie-
of life had little value, and the approval of
his conscience was his best reward. He was
a tireless worker and a man of rare simplic-
ity of character. Of the possessions and
treasures of a long life, none were so dear
to this man of unworldly thought, as the
friendships he made and held as the best
gifts of the God he worshipped.

Mr. Ricord married, in 1843, Sophia,
daughter of William Bradley, whose family
represented one of the best of New Eng-
land. Upon her mother's side she was a
descendant of Governor William Bradford,
of the Plymouth colony, and also of Gov-
ernor John Webster , of the Connecticut
Colony.

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STOCKTON, John P.,

Lawyer, Diplomat, Statesman.

John Potter Stockton, lawyer and states-
man, was a member of the family of that
name which need yield to none in its claim
ir ion the gratitude of New Jersey, or in
the record of the services it has rendered
to the State which has so long been its
home. Richard Stockton, the elder, the
ardent patriot, the staunch opponent of
British oppression in colonial days and final-
ly Signer of the immortal Declaration, was
his great-grandfather, nor were the inter-
mediate generations less distinguished. His
grandfather was the eminent jurist and
statesman, Richard Stockton, the younger,
whose career and personality has done so
much for the traditions of the New Jersey
bar ; and his father, Robert Field Stockton,
the gallant commodore and prudent states-
man. John P. Stockton thus represented
the fourth generation in direct descent
which contributed to the fair name of New
Jersey, and the third which served her in
the senatorial capacity.

John P. Stockton was born in Princeton,
New Jersey, in the old Stockton home, Au-
gust 2, 1826. After a superior preparatory
course he became a student at Princeton
College, from which he was graduated in
1843. Adopting the law, he passed through
the usual preparation, and was admitted to
the bar in 1846. and three years later he
was called to the bar as a counsellor. He
very speedily attained a high position in his
profession, and in connection therewith re-
ceived some high trusts, being appointed a.
member of the commission for the Revision
of the Laws of New Jersey, and subsequent-
ly reporter to the Court of Chancery, and
during his occupancy of this office he pub-
lished the three valuable volumes of "Equi-
ty Reports." which bear his name. He was
engaged in a number of the leading cases
then before the courts, and was counsel
for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in
the long and intricate litigation rendered

necessary by assaults upon the privileges
acquired by it from the corporations known
as the United Railroads of New Jersey.
This litigation absorbed an extraordinary
attention, and forms the greatest railroad
war in the annals of the State. Politically
a Democrat, inheriting his principles from
a long line of ancestors, he took an active
and conspicuous part in politics. In 1858
President Buchanan appointed him minister
to Rome, and he removed to that city,
where he remained until 1861, when he
was recalled at his own request. In 1865
he was elected to the LTnited States Senate
for the term ending in 1871. A contest,
however, arose, and after he had occupied
the seat for rather more than a year, his
election was declared by the Senate to have
been informal. He was accordingly un-
seated, and thereupon returned home to
prosecute his profession. In 1868 he was
again elected to the United States Senate,
as the successor of Hon. Frederick T. Frel-
inghuysen, and took his seat on March 4,
1869, and on the expiration of his term, in
March, 1875, he resumed the active practice
of his profession. During his term as Sen-
ator he served on the Senate committees on
foreign affairs, navy, appropriation, patents
and public buildings. In 1877 he was made
Attorney-General of New Jersey, an office
he held until 1892. A Democrat in politics,
he was a delegate to every national conven-
tion of his party from 1864 until his death.
In 1882 Princeton College conferred upon
him the honorary degree of LL.D. Toward
the end of his life he retired somewhat
from public life, and his death occurred
January 22. 190x3, in New York City.

ROBESON, George M.,

Cabinet Officer, National Legislator.

George Maxwell Robeson was born at
Oxford Furnace, New Jersey, in 1827, son
of William P. and Anna (Maxwell) Robe-
son, and a descendant of Andrew Robeson,
of Scotland, who was Survevor-General of

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New Jersey in 1668. Andrew Robeson
was a graduate of Oxford University, and
his son Jonathan for that reason gave the
name of Oxford Furnace to the site where
in 1741 he planted the first iron furnace in
Morris county. New Jersey, near Belvidere.

He received an academic education, and
was then sent to Princeton College, where
he was graduated in 1847. He studied law
with Chief Justice Hornblower at Newark,
and was admitted to the bar in 1850, prac-
ticed at Newark, and afterward at Camden,
and in 1858 was appointed Prosecutor of
the Pleas of Camden county. At the out-
break of the Civil War, Mr. Robeson was
very active in organizing the State troops
of New Jersey, and he was commissioned
brigadier-general. In 1867 he was appoint-
ed Attorney-General of New Jersey, and
served until June 27, 1869, when he resign-
ed, in order to accept the position of Secre-
tary of the Navy, to which he had been
appointed by President Grant. He remain-
ed in this position until the expiration of
President Grant's second term, in 1877.
During this period he for a short time dis-
charged also the duties of Secretary of War,
following the resignation of General Wil-
liam W. Belknap. His official conduct as
Secretary of the Navy was the subject of
congressional investigation in 1876 and
1878, but in both cases the judiciary com-
mittee of the House found that the charges
against him were not sustained. After leav-
ing the cabinet he resumed the practice of
law in Camden, New Jersey. He was elect-
ed to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving nearly as many votes as the
Democratic and Greenback candidates to-
gether, was re-elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress, and in 1882 was a candidate for
re-election, but was defeated.

He married, in 1872, Mary Isabella (Ogs-
ton) Aulick, a widow, with a son, Rich-
mond Aulick. They had one daughter,
Ethel Maxwell. Mr. Robeson died in Tren-
ton. September 27, 1897.

LUDLOW, George C.,

Lawyer, Legislator, Governor.

George C. Ludlow, twenty-eighth Gov-
ernor of New Jersey (1881-84), was born
in Milford, Hunterdon county, New Jersey,
April 6, 1830. He received his early educa-
tion in the schools of his vicinity, entered
Rutgers College at the age of sixteen, and
was graduated in the class of 1850. He
then commenced the study of law, was ad-
mitted to the bar three years later, and
engaged in practice at New P>runswick,
New Jersey. He soon established a reputa-
tion in his profession, and won the con-
fidence and esteem of all who came in con-
tact with him by his undoubted integrity
and devotion to the interests of his clients.
Always an intense Democrat, he was wont
to take a conspicuous part in politics, but
never held office until 1876, when he was
elected to the State Senate. During his
term of membership he served on some of
the most important committees, and through-
out one session occupied the president's
chair. He declined a renomination. In 1880
he became the Democratic nominee for the
governorship of his native State, was elect-
ed the same year, and came into office Janu-
ary 1 8, 1 88 1. His term expired January
21. 1884. He died December 18. 1900.

GREEN, Robert Stockton,

Lawyer, Jurist. Governor.

Robert Stockton Green, who served as
Governor of New Jersey from 1886 to
1890, was a representative of a family of
prominence, a family conspicuous for its
men of sterling probity and integrity, ac-
tive and public-spirited, numbering among
them the Rev. Jacob Green, the Revolu-
tionary patriot, who was his great-grand-
father. His grandfather was the Rev. Ash-
bel Green, born 1762, died 1848; and his
father, James Sproat Green, was United
States District Attorney for New Jersey

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and professor of law in the College of New
Jersey. James S. Green married Isabella
McCulloh.

Robert Stockton Green was born in
Princeton, New Jersey, March 25, 1831,
and died in Elizabeth. New Jersey, May 7,
1895. After a preliminary training, he be-
came a student at Nassau Hall, from which
he graduated in 1850. Choosing the profes-
sion of the law, he was after the usual
course of study admitted to the bar in 1853,
and became a counsellor in 1856. While
residing in Princeton he took an active in-
terest in its affairs, and in 1852 served as a
member of its council. He removed to
Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1856, and im-
mediately became interested in the move-
ment for the creation of Union county, and
he was largely instrumental in the passage
of the act of 1857 by which it was ac-
complished, and which designated Elizabeth
as the county seat. In 1857 he was ap-
pointed prosecutor of the borough courts
by Governor Newell, and in the following
year became the city attorney of Elizabeth.
a position he continued to fill with marked
ability for ten years. At the expiration
of this period he was elected to the city
council, and served therein by successive
elections from 1868 to 1873. He had been
elected surrogate of Union county in 1862,
and appointed presiding judge of the Court
of Common Pleas and county courts in
1868. During the succeeding year he was
appointed by Governor Randolph to the
Commercial Convention at Louisville as a
representative of New Jersey. In 1873 he
was appointed by Governor Parker, and the
nomination received the confirmation of the
Senate, one of the commissioners to suggest
amendments to the constitution of the State.
In this commission he served as chairman
of the committees on bills of rights, rights
of suffrage, limitation of power of govern-
ment, and general and special legislation.
The amendments suggested were substan-
tially adopted by the two succeeding legis-
latures and ratified by the people at the

general election of 1875. He represented
the Democratic party as delegate to the
National conventions of 1860, 1880 and
1888: was a representative in the Forty-
ninth Congress, 1885-87; Governor of New
Jersey, 1886-90; Vice-Chancellor of the
State, 1890-95 ; and Judge of the Court of
Errors and Appeals, 1894-95.

In his professional capacity he was con-
nected with some of the most important
movements in the State of New Jersey.
Of these the most notable, because of its
almost revolutionary and far-reaching char-
acter, may be mentioned the enterprise de-
signed to deliver the people of the common-
wealth from the monopoly long enjoyed by
the Camden & Amboy Railroad Company
and its successors, the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company. An organization was ef-
fected, known as the National Railway
Company, having for its object the con-
struction of a second railroad between the
cities of Philadelphia and New York. At
every step the new enterprise was met with
opposition and litigation by its established
rival. This opposition and litigation cul-
minated in 1872 in the celebrated case be-
fore the Chancellor's Court in Trenton. In
this suit, which was brought by the Penn-
sylvania Railroad Company, as lessees of
the franchises and road of the Camden &
Amboy Railroad, against the National Rail-
way Company, to restrain it from operating
a through line from New York to Phila-
delphia, under several charters which were
to be used as connecting links of the route,
Mr. Green acted as attorney for the defend-
ants. This litigation led in the succeeding
winter, to the fierce contest in the legisla-
ture between the railroad companies and
the advocates of free railroads. Bill after
bill granting the rights sought by the promo-
ters of the new enterprise passed the House
of Assembly, only to be killed or smothered
in the Senate. The Assembly had early in
the session passed a bill, introduced by Mr.
Canfield, of Morris, creating a general rail-
road law. This measure had gone to the

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Senate, and been there amended by the
striking out of all after the enacting clause,
and the insertion of a bill that would have
been practically useless. On the return of
this amended bill to the House, in the last
days of the session, it was referred to a
committee, consisting of Messrs. Worthing-
ton, Canfield, Lestom, Willets, and Schenck,
who, with Messrs. Cortlandt Parker, Green,
Attorney-General Gilchrist, and B. W.
Throckmorton, prepared and perfected a
measure which was the next day reported to
the House by the committee as a substitute
for the Senate's amendment. The Assem-
bly passed it, and, after some small altera-
tions made by a committee of conference,
it eventually passed both Houses ; was sign-
ed by Governor Parker, and became a law.
Railroad monopoly privileges which had
been enjoyed under the decision in the case
of the Camden & Amboy Railroad Com-
pany and the Delaware and Raritan Bay
Company, even after the companies had
relinquished their rights to exclusive privi-
leges, were by this law destroyed, and un-
der it the Delaware & Bound Brook Rail-
road was built on the route and partially
finished road-bed of the National Railway
Company, and in connection with the New
Jersey Central and North Pennsylvania rail-
roads formed a continuous and through line
from New York to Philadelphia. With the
opening of this road was consummated the
release of New Jersey from one of the most
oppressive monopolies known to the history
of this country, and to Mr. Green the com-
munity is indebted in no small degree for
its deliverance. His great ability and tire-
less care in working up the intricate points
of the preliminary litigation, and in shap-
ing the subsequent legislation, conduced
conspicuously to the final triumph of popu-
lar rights.

Mr. Green became a member of the bar
of New York in January, 1874, as a partner
in the firm of Brown, Hall & Vanderpoel,
which afterwards, by changes in its per-
sonnel, became that of Vanderpoel, Green

& Cuming. The College of New Jersey-
gave him the honorary degree of LL.I). in
1887. He was a member of the New Jer-
sey Society of the Cincinnati ; president of
the State Society; member of the Sons of
the American Revolution, 1888, and a vice-
president general of the National Society.

KILPATRICK, Gen. Hugh Judson,

Dashing Cavalry Officer, Diplomat.

General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, un-
doubtedly one of the most daring and bril-
liant cavalry leaders of the Civil War per-
iod, was born near Dcckertown, New Jer-
sey, January 14, 1836.

He was graduated from the Military
Academy at West Point in i8'>i, and on
May 14 of that year was commissioned a
lieutenant of artillery. He participated in
the battle of Big Bethel, in the following
month. In August he was commissioned
lieutenant-colonel of a New York cavalry
regiment which he had assisted in recruiting
and organizing. In January, 1862, he set
out for Kansas to serve as chief of artil-
lery of General James H. Lane's forces,
intended for service in Texas. This expedi-
tion, however, was abandoned, and Kilpat-
rick rejoined his regiment in Virginia, and
was in the action at Thoroughfare Gap, and
the second battle of Bull Run. On June 13.
1863, he was promoted to brigadier-gen-
eral of volunteers, took part in the battles
of Aldie and Gettysburg, and for gallantry
in the latter two engagements was brevetted
lieutenant-colonel in the regular army. He
took an active part in the operations in
Virginia from August until November, 1863,
and in the affairs at James City, Brandy
Station and Gainesville. In May, 1864, he
was sent west and assigned to the command
of a cavalry division in the Army of the
Cumberland, then entering upon the Georgia
campaign. He was severely wounded in
the battle of Resaca, Georgia, May I3th,
and was obliged to retire from service for
two months. He returned to the field with

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undiniinished zeal and energy, and in the
middle of August passed around the ene-
my's lines at Atlanta, destroying consider-
able railroad, and returning with a number
of prisoners, and various trophies of war.
He commanded all of General Sherman's
cavalry forces during the famous "March
to the Sea" and in the campaign of the
Carolinas, especially distinguished himself
at Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was
brevetted colonel in the regular army for
gallant conduct at Resaca, brigadier-general
for the capture of Fayetteville, North Caro-
lina, and major-general for meritorious ser-
vices in the Carolina campaign. On June
1 8, 1865, he was promoted to major-general
of volunteers. On January i, 1866, he
resigned his volunteer commission, and in
the following year left the regular army.

General Kilpatrick was Minister to Chili
from 1865 to 1868. In the presidential
campaign of 1872 he supported Greeley. He
returned to the Republican party in 1876,
and in 1880 was an unsuccessful candidate
for Congress from New Jersey. In 1881
he was appointed by President Garfield to
the post of Minister to Chili, and his death
occurred at Valparaiso on December 4th of
the same vear.

DRYDEN, John Fairfield,

Founder of Prudential Insurance Company.

One of the foremost men the insurance
world has ever produced was John Fair-
field Dryden, founder of The Prudential,
and pioneer of industrial insurance in
America. Mr. Dryden also accomplished
much for the material advancement of New
Jersey. It has been said of him, "He help-
ed the masses to help themselves." His
career was an illustration of greatness aris-
ing out of a long and determined struggle
for achievement in a new and venture-
some field of human endeavor. His mon-
ument is the magnificent institution of
which he was the creator and head, and

which links his name with the lives of mil-
lions of people.

For nearly forty years Mr. Dryden was
a resident of Newark, New Jersey, and one
its most highly honored citizens. He was
born August 7, 1839, on a farm at Temple
Mills, near Farmington, Maine, and his life
is an illustration of what a young man of
ordinary means and honest birth can ac-
complish, and the kind of heritage he can
leave for the benefit of humanity. His par-
ents were John and Elizabeth B. Dryden,
of old New England ancestry.

Removing with his parents from Maine
to Massachusetts when seven years of age,
he received his early education in the
schools of the latter State. As a youth he
was distinguished by his studious nature
and intellectual pursuits ; and though his
health was never robust, he fitted himself
for college, entering Yale in 1861. His
over-zealousness in study broke down his
health and compelled him to leave before
the completion of his course. In later
years, in recognition of his after achieve-
ments, the university conferred upon him
the degree of Master of Arts ; and his
name was enrolled as one of the graduates
of the class of 1865.

Perhaps Mr. Dryden's glimpse of the
frailty of health set him to thinking about
life insurance, pointing him in the direction
of what proved so conclusively to be his
work in life; for immediately after
leaving college he became interested in the
subject, particularly in its application to
the practical solution of the economic prob-
lems of the poor. His attention had been
attracted to the methods of The Pruden-
tial Assurance Company of London, which
some years previously had commenced the
writing of industrial insurance, or life In-
surance for wage earners, on the weekly
payment plan ; and he was greatly impress-
ed with the success which had attended its
methods. The matter had been discussed
in Parliament and elsewhere and had gain-

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ed a wide publicity ; and in the annual re-
ports of the Massachusetts Insurance De-
partment had received the notice of Pro-
fessor Elizur Wright, the State Insurance
Commissioner. Procuring the reports of the
London company and all available informa-
tion, Mr. Dryden studied and analyzed the
matter, acquainting himself with the founda-
tion principles, the practical details, and
the results both from the standpoint of the
company and that of the policy holder. He
became convinced of the practicability of
Americanizing the methods of the English
company and establishing industrial insur-
ance in this country. Fascinated by the
idea of putting an insurance policy into
every tenement house and poor man's cab-
in, he determined to achieve this great bless-
ing for the poor. He began at the founda-
tion, was full of ambitious enterprise, with
an unbounded confidence in himself and
the ultimate success of his idea, and it is
owing to him that the poor man gets his
policy of life insurance.

In 1873 he came to Newark. The long
continued business depression of that per-
iod, with its attendant panic and its bank
failures, made his task a doubly hard one ;
but he succeeded eventually in interesting
Horace Ailing; William H. Murphy, father
of former Governor Murphy ; Noah F.
Blanchard. a leading leather manufacturer
of the city ; Dr. Leslie D. Ward, a practic-
ing physician ; and others. Obtaining a
charter from the State Legislature, he or-
ganized "The Widows' and Orphans
Friendly Society," Mr. Dryden becoming
the secretary. An office was secured in the
basement of the bank at 810 Broad street,
Newark ; and here in The Prudential's of-
fice he helped to lay the cornerstone of the
present financial importance of the city of
Newark, whose largest institution to-day
is The Prudential.

He started the company in an inexpen-
sive way and without any salary for him-
self, the economy practiced enabling it to
weather the early days. It was not many

years, however, before the institution was
self-supporting. Shortly after its organi-
zation the name of the society was changed
to "The Prudential Friendly Society," the
intention being at that time to found a
workingman's benefit institution which
would cover all of the more important con-
tingencies affecting the lives of wage earn-
ers ; that is, giving them financial relief in
the event of accident, sickness or death, and
granting an annuity in old age. The time had
not yet come to cover so ambitious a field as
this, however, and the plan was changed to
provide for the payment of sums at death.
Thinking it best to learn if possible more
about the methods of the English Pruden-
tial, Mr. Dryden crossed the ocean and
made the acquaintance of Sir Henry Har-
ben, founder of industrial insurance in the
United Kingdom, and for many years pres-
ident of the English Prudential. The court-
esy with which he was received by the Lon-
don institution and its officers, their will-
ingness to impart information about the
work, and the opportunities which they
gave him of studying their ways of doing
business, stranger that he was, were a trib-
ute to Mr. Dryden's personality.

After Mr. Dryden's return the name of
The Prudential Friendly Society was
changed to "The Prudential Insurance
Company of America." From the earliest
beginnings the undertaking was strictly
limited to wage earners' insurance or in-
dustrial insurance on the weekly payment
plan, with the premiums collected from the
houses of the insured. A better plan than
this could scarcely have been devised, for
reasons inherent to the lives and conditions
of the earners of weekly wages. The
workingman was taught the value of sav-
ing. To the high standards maintained by
Mr. Dryden's management is due the re-
spect in which industrial insurance is held
in this country to-day. In 1881 Mr. Dry-
den became president of The Prudential,
in which office he continued for thirty
years, and until his death.

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1 1< had a genius for organization, and
excelled in the management of men. From
the beginning he led the forces of The Pru-
dential by kind and gentle ways, creating
in their minds a trust in him personally
.ml a complete confidence in his word, the
result being a force of well-disciplined em-
ployees who were loyal to their leader. Mr.
Dryden was an excellent judge of char-
acter ; his own early experience taught him
to be sympathetic with the trials of his
agents, and he was constantly endeavoring
to better their condition, finding ways of
making their work easier and more suc-
cessful. A man of diligence and integrity,
cool and courageous, he inspired those
about him with like qualities. Mr. Dryden's
conception of the social service that ac-
companied and underlaid every view of his
business was ever uppermost in his mind. So
strong and loyal is the memory held for
Mr. Dryden by employees of The Pruden-
tial that a beautiful bronze statue has been
erected by them in the corridor of The
Prudential building, Newark, as a tribute
of esteem and affection from the field and
home office force of the company.

In 1886, The Prudential commenced the
issue of ordinary policies in amounts of
$1,000 and over, with premiums payable
quarterly, and at longer intervals ; the re-
sult being a very large and rapidly growing
ordinary business whose development was
such that on January i, 1913, the company-
had over eight hundred and sixty million
dollars of ordinary business on its books.
A large amount of this insurance is secur-
ed by industrial agents, and thus the bene-
fits of every form of safe life insurance
are brought home to the mass of the people.
The Prudential has at present over 11,000,-
ooo industrial and ordinary policies in
force, for over $2,211,000,000 industrial
and ordinary life insurance, and is indeed
a veritable rock of Gibraltar for the pro-
tection of the workingman and his family.
By issuing the two forms of insurance
through one institution, Mr. Dryden secur-

ed for The Prudential a foremost position
among the life insurance companies of the
world.

Mr. Dryden was identified with the best
business interests and prosperity of the
city of Newark ; he entered into the affairs
of various large organizations with a keen
foresight and a sound judgment that won
the regard of his associates wherever he
moved. He created for the city an im-
mense amount of taxable wealth, and gave
large additional values to existing property
by the improvements he projected. He
contributed to the beautifying of the city
by the erection of stately buildings, setting
the example for others to follow. Trans-
forming the old-fashioned and slow-going
banking system, he helped to give new life
and a new growth to Newark, making it
a great financial centre. Suffice it to say-
that The Prudential now has over three
hundred million dollars assets. He estab-
lished a network of thrift from the lowest
to the highest, showing the working people
how to make the best use of their money
in life insurance, and advising financial and
other organizations how to conduct their
enterprises to the best public advantage.

The important part enacted by The Pru-
dential in the city of Newark and the State
of New Jersey is shown by the fact that
that company since its organization has
contributed to the city and the State in the
form of taxes over eight million dollars,
much of which has gone toward the main-
tenance of schools, hospitals and other
State and local interests.

In appreciation of Mr. Dryden's inval-
uable public services New Jersey chose
him in 1896 and in 1900 as presidential
elector. On January 29, 1902, he was elect-
ed to the United States Senate. An active
Republican all his life and keenly interest-
ed in public affairs, he entered at once into
public work, receiving a number of promi-
nent Senate committee appointments and
making his first speech on the subject of
the Chinese exclusion bill. As a member

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of the Inter-Oceanic Canal Committee of
the Senate, he was brought into close per-
sonal cooperation and friendship with ex-
President Taft, then Secretary of War,
and rendered distinguished service in bring-
ing about the legislation which made pos-
sible the completion of the great water-
way between the two oceans. As a mem-
ber of the Senate library committee and
the committee on public buildings and
grounds, he secured action upon a number
of important measures ; and as a member
of the committee on immigration he gave
material aid in effecting desirable legisla-
tion. His amendment to the railroad rate
bill, fixing the time for divorcing the con-
trol of mining properties from the rail-
roads, proved a wise and most important
enactment.

The dignity of his character and the
marked abilities which he displayed gave
him a strong influence with legislators and
officials, and served to smooth the way for
important State and local benefits ; he wa<
thus enabled to obtain for New Jersey ap-
propriations aggregating five million dollars_
He secured for the State the construction
of some of the government's largest war
vessels, and enriched the State treasury by
over six hundred thousand dollars due
from the Federal Government on unpaid
Civil War claims. Not the least of his ac-
tivities as Senator was his bringing to a
successful issue a large number of the spe-
cial bills and claims before the pension of-
fice for the relief of old soldiers and their
widows ; and to every case showing extreme
want his personal attention was given. He
also presented while in the United States
Senate a valuable trophy, known as the
Dryden Trophy, with the purpose of in-
creasing the efficiency in marksmanship
among the National Guard, the Army and
the Navy. Indeed, his interest and his ser-
vices covered almost every subject of State
or National importance : and in the dis-
charge of the duties of his high office he
displayed the same breadth of view and the

same keenness of intellect that character-
ized his administration of The Prudential
Insurance Company.

Mr. Dryden's term as United States Sen-
ator expired on March 4, 1907, and his
health not being good he withdrew from
the contest for reelection, leaving the field
clear to his successor. Upon recuperating
his energies, however, he again became ac-
tive in business life and in public affairs ;
and during the panic year of 1907 assisted
materially in warding off a financial crisis,
doing much in the two following years to
extend The Prudential's field of operations.
Additional structures were planned and
completed, so that the four large office
buildings in Newark now owned and occu-
pied by the company, are considered one
i f the finest groups of office buildings in
the world, and a model in point of archi-
tectural beauty and utility for business pur-
poses, the home office employees of the
company working under the very best pos-
sible office conditions.

Senator Dryden was one of the com-
mittee that erected the McKinley Memor-
ial at Canton, Ohio ; and was appointed
chairman of the committee which had in
charge the raising of the Cleveland monu-
ment at Princeton, having started the
movement and organized the Cleveland
Monument Association. He personally
conducted the movement to successful ac-
complishment, the fund of one hundred
and twenty-six thousand dollars, which
was raised through popular subscription,
actually exceeding the amount originally
suggested for the project.

Mr. Dryden was a member of the Pres-
byterian church, and was a contributor to
religious movements and charitable enter-
prises along many lines. Believing always
in a great future for the city of Newark,
he cooperated in all movements to make
the city more widely known among the
great commercial and industrial centres,
and was a director in many of the larger fi-
nancial institutions of the city, State and

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country. He was an officer in or director of
the following corporations : The Prudential
Insurance Company of America, president
and director; Fidelity Trust Company,
Newark. vice-president and director ;
Union National Bank, Newark, director;
United States Steel Corporation, director ;
United States Casualty Company, New
York, director; National Bank of Com-
merce, New York, director ; Equitable
Trust Company, New York, director ; Pub-
lic Service Corporation of New Jersey, di-
rector.

Of the Fidelity Trust Company of New-
ark, he was one of the originators ; and he
was also one of the prime movers in the
consolidation that resulted in the Public
Service Corporation of New Jersey. It
was in 1903 that he was made a director
of the United States Steel Corporation in
which he was active until his death.

It was not only in his daily life but in
his speeches and writings that Mr. Dryden
was enabled to exert so important an in-
fluence upon his fellow country men. In
1895 he demonstrated in a speech before
the insurance committee of the Massachu-
setts Legislature the fallacies of a propos-
ed bill to prohibit the insurance of children.
and succeeded in defeating the measure.
His writings upon insurance questions are
among the classics of the business ; and his
able volume, "Addresses and Papers on
Life Insurance and Other Subjects," is
widely recognized as a reference book on
all matters of this nature, especially upon
the subject of industrial insurance. Treat-
ing on the benefits of industrial insurance,
Mr. Dryden described it as one of the most
effective means of family protection ever
devised. He told also of the new life in-
surance plan successfully undertaken by
his company of guaranteeing the payment
of monthly income checks through the en-
tire lifetime of a widow or other dependent
rather than paying the full sum of the pol-
icy at the death of the insured. He be-
lieved this method to be more directly in

line with the American ideal of the highest
degree of economic independence in old
age. This was a growing part of The Pru-
dential's business at the time of his death.

A widely quoted article upon the subject
of longevity, written by him in September,
1901, states his conclusions, based upon the
experience of The Prudential, that the
American people are advancing toward
physical supremacy and distinctly longer
lives. He also called attention to the op-
portunities of life insurance as a career and
discussed with keen insight the questions
of taxation of life insurance and its regu-
lation by Congress, presenting strong argu-
ments for a reduction in the tax by the var-
ious States, and the placing of the business
under National supervision, in order to
bring about uniform laws for its conduct.
Mr. Dryden stated that his own course in
public and business life was largely influ-
enced by the fundamental principles of
party responsibility and the high ideals in
political, business and social life of Abra-
ham Lincoln and Alexander Hamilton.

His letters to his agents won for him a
reputation as a clear and logical writer, and
showed him to be a man of strong and orig-
inal thought. He was thoroughly posted
and well-informed on an unusual number
of important subjects, indicating a wide
mental scope and great judicial force. He
was a great student of literature and the
arts. Large and valuable libraries were
accumulated by him at his Newark resi-
dence and in his summer home at Ber-
nardsville, New Jersey. He was an ac-
knowledged connoisseur in paintings, and
his art collection in Newark, which includ-
ed a number of modern master-pieces, was
one of the most ably and intelligently select-
ed collections in the State. Mr. Dryden
was also deeply interested in the develop-
ment of forestry, and began the establish-
ment of a game preserve on his property,
having purchased in the year 1911 the old
Rutherford estate, seven thousand acres in
extent, in Sussex county, New Jersey.

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As an evidence of Mr. Dryden's belief in
a great future prosperity for New Jersey,
he made this interesting prediction in an
address before the New Jersey State Bank-
ers Association at Atlantic City in 1906:
"Drawing much of her energy and capi-
tal from the great city of New York on
the one hand, and from the great city of
Philadelphia on the other, she (New Jer-
sey) yet preserves an independent attitude
and pursues an independent policy. Be-
tween these two cities, New Jersey, with an
area of some seven thousand square milts,
occupies what, without question, will in
course of time become the most valuable
real estate in America."

Mr. Dryden was a member of the Union
League Club, New York ; New York Yacht
Club ; Railroad Club ; Autombile Club of
America; Metropolitan Club of Washing-
ton ; Essex Club ; Essex County Country
Club, and the Automobile and Motor Club
of New Jersey.

His home life was ideal. Married, in
1864, at New Haven, Connecticut, to Miss
Cynthia J. Fairchild, he had two children :
Forrest F. Dryden, who succeeded his fath-
er as president of The Prudential ; and
Susie Dryden, who married Colonel An-
thony R. Kuser, of Trenton.

Mr. TJryden's death occurred after a short
illness, at his residence in Newark, Novem-
ber 24, 1911, he being then in his seventy-
third year. It was said of him, at his death,
that a pillar of the State had fallen, and
from the world of insurance a towering fig-
ure was removed which for more than a
generation had commanded the respect and
admiration of his contemporaries.

McGILL, Alexander Taggart,

Distinguished Jurist.

Of the public life of this learned and con-
scientious judge, Vice Chancellor Reed
said : "Of his learning, the reports of the
decisions of the courts over which he pre-
sided bear ample evidence ; of his industry,

the multitudinous affairs which underwent
the scrutiny of his vigilant eyes, his lonely
midnight labor, his broken health and immo-
lated life all attest ; of his exquisite amenity,
everyone — judge, lawyer or citizen — who
approached him professionally or personal-
ly, can bear witness. Above all, he had
those undefinable attributes of personality
which go to make up character."

Alexander Taggart McGill was born in
Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, October 20,
1843, son °f Alexander Taggart and Ellen
A. (McCulloch) McGill. After graduating
from Princeton College in 1864, he studied
law at Columbia University, from which he
graduated in 1866. Continuing his legal
studies in the office of Hon. Edward W.
Scudder, of Trenton, New Jersey, he was
admitted to the bar as attorney in 1867, and
as counsellor in 1870. After remaining in
Trenton a few months, associated with his
preceptor, he removed to Jersey City, and
made it his permanent home. During 1870-
76 he practiced in partnership with Attor-
ney-General Robert Gilchrist. In 1874 and
again in 1875 he was elected as a Demo-
cratic member of the Assembly. He was
appointed Prosecutor of Pleas for Hudson
county in April, 1878, and in April, 1883,
was made Law Judge in the same territory.
In March, 1887, he was appointed Chancel-
lor of the State of New Jersey, by Governor
Green, and upon the expiration of his term
in 1894 was reappointed by Governor
Werts. During his term as Chancellor, the
famous coal combine bill brought him into
much prominence. The measure was pass-
ed by the legislature, but did not receive the
signature of Governor Abbett. Neverthe-
less, the railroad companies in the combi-
nation proceeded to act as though protected
by existing laws ; and the Attorney-Gener-
al brought suit against the combination iu
the Court of Chancery. Chancellor McGill
rendered a decision laying down the rela-
tion of corporations to the State, and deal-
ing a powerful blow to all the monopoly
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clearness and fairness of the decision rend-
ered placed his ruling beyond attack. In
September, 1895, he was nominated by the
Democratic party as its candidate for Gov-
ernor. Chancellor McGill in the campaign
that ensued refused to take part, remain-
ing on the bench and attending strictly to
his official duties. He was defeated in the
Republican landslide that followed.

As a citizen and lawyer, Chancellor
McGill was universally respected and es-
teemed, and as a judge he was one of the
most popular that ever presided over the
courts of Chancery or of Errors and Ap-
peals. The degree of LL.D. was conferred
on him by both Princeton and Rutgers Col-
leges.

He married, at Princeton, New Jersey,
June 10, 1875, Caroline S., daughter of
George T. Olmsted. He died in Jersey-
City, New Jersey, April 21, 1900.

POPE, Samuel,

Man of Enterprise, Public Official.

A man of unusual size, six and a half
feet in height and of proportionate build,
Samuel Pope, one of the early stage drivers
between Paterson, Newark, and Jersey City,
was a man to attract attention anywhere.
His character matched his body and for
force, energy, bluntness, straightforward-
ness and honesty he was remarkable. His
iron will and tremendous body made him
a most desirable addition to the early pio-
neer community and in establishing new en-
terprises he aided with all his powers. He
was of the fourth generation of his family
in New Jersey, the founder coming from
Scotland and locating on a large tract of
land at Elizabethtown.

Samuel was the proud son of Jeremiah
Pope of the second American generation,
who resided in Hackensack, New Jersey,
during the Revolutionary War, in which he
served with the patriot army. He was
wounded in conflict with the British, seven
buckshot and a bullet entering his body. He

was nursed back to life by Polly, a daugh-
ter of Dr. Van Emburgh, of Hackensack,
fell in love with her and later she became
his wife. After the war he settled in West-
ern New York, where he engaged in farm-
ing. When war again was pending between
the United States and Great Britain he
served with the famous "Silver Grays,"
fighting at Lundy's Lane under General
Scott.

Samuel, son of Jeremiah and Polly (Van
Emburgh) Pope, was born in Hackensack,
New Jersey. He went west with his par-
ents, and also fought at Lundy's Lane, near
his father, who thought him safe at home
on the farm. Both escaped injury in battle,
but later both fell victims of camp fever,
the government paying the widow a gener-
ous pension. Samuel Pope married Eliza-
beth Edwards, born in New England, who
bore him two sons, John and Samuel.

Samuel, son of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Edwards) Pope, was born on the Western
New York farm, between Cayuga and Sen-
eca Lakes, October 9, 1811, died in Pater-
son, New Jersey. Soon after the sudden
death of his father and grandfather, his
grandmother brought Samuel to Paterson,
he then being two years old and soon be-
coming motherless. He attended school un-
til he was ten years of age, then beginning
work in Colt's flax and cottonmill. Soon
afterward he was employed in a similar
mill owned by John Travers, and there ac-
cidently had his left hand badly mutilated,
and while convalescing from this injury he
attended school for two terms. His next
employer was William Jacobs, who was to
teach him wood turning. Not receiving his
wages, he sued Jacobs, employing Judge
Ogden as counsel, paying him by personal
labor. He thus early developed that dis-
position to stand up for his right, that spir-
it being a characteristic of his entire life.

For the next eight years he "drove stage"
between Paterson and New York, worked
on the construction of the turnpike between
those cities, helped build the Morris road,

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and with his horses and carts aided in con-
structing the Paterson & Hudson River
railroad. After the road was completed he
drove the teams that pulled the cars, and
attended to the baggage for a time. He
then entered the employ of John Robert
and Edward Stevens, of Hoboken, and
drove their opposition line of stages be-
tween Paterson and Hoboken, not infre-
quently beating the railroad time. Later
he continued the opposition line on his own
account, driving the best horses he could
buy, shortening the regular time (2-1/2
hours) and reducing the fare to two shill-
ings and sixpence each way.

About 1834 three locomotive engines
were brought from England and placed on
the railroad. Judge Ogden then being its
president. Mr. Pope was called upon to
assist in getting the first locomotive on the
track ready for operation, and for eight
months was its fireman. Then, a new pres-
ident having been elected, Mr. Pope left the
road and started the opposition line of four
stages previously alluded to. About the
year 1837 he gave up that business and pur-
chased the wood standing on about three
thousand acres of land. This he cut and
sold to the New York & Erie railroad,
which had leased the first built road. He
continued in that business for many years ;
in fact, that may be said to have been his
principal business, although he built mills,
opened and developed quarries. Erected
many buildings of stone, brick and wood,
in short was ready for any enterprise that
was honest and promised profit. He built
one of the Gin Mill group of factories, a
part of the works at the city pumping sta-
tion, the great wall around the Colt's Hill
property, and many other structures in Pat-
erson. He cut the wood from many thou-
sands of acres, one of his purchases being
five thousand acres bought from Cooper &
Hewitt, in the northern part of Passaic
county. He succeeded in a financial sense,
amassing a large fortune and owning valu-
able properties in and around Paterson. He

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was clearheaded and resourceful, kindly
hearted and genial, one of the truest of
friends and the bitterest of enemies, never
resting under an injury until fully reveng-
ed. But when revenged, he was the first to
lend his former enemy a helping hand. He
lived to an honorable old age and among
Paterson's citizens no man was held in
more genuine esteem.

He was an ardent Democrat all his life,
his first vote having been cast for General
Jackson when he was but seventeen, his
great size not denoting his youth to the
judges. He became a leading figure in
local politics and held many offices. He
was street superintendent under both vil-
lage and city governments, was assessor
and collector of taxes, member of the first
city council, 1851-2, and as city treasurer
signed the first municipal bonds issued by
the city of Paterson. His salary as treasurer
was $209 yearly ; he gave security bonds for
$60,000, paid out $300 yearly for clerk hire,
besides furnishing an office in which to
transact city business, and lighted and heat-
ed it at his own expense. In 1857 he was
elected to represent the South and Fifth
Wards of Paterson in the State Legislature
and was re-elected for five terms, serving
continuously from 1857 to 1863, except in
1862. He was influential in the Legisla-
ture, supported the Stevens interest in the
road from Newark to Hoboken, fought the
old New Jersey road with all his strength,
and was elected to succeed himself in spite
of the opposition of that road which sent
$3000 into the district to defeat him. Amid
all this strife he maintained his reputation
for honesty and fair dealing, his uncom-
promising integrity never being questioned.
He would accept no office after retiring
from the Legislature, and for many years
prior to his death was totally retired from
business life. He gave liberally to all
churches : loaned the New York & Lake
Erie railroad the money needed to construct
depot and freight buildings in Paterson :
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ion interests. He was a character not often
duplicated, and while a truly selfmade man,
his life was one which the most favored
might well be proud to have lived.

In 1836 he married Eliza Rose, of Hav-
rrstraw, who survived him without issue.
[n 1872, while sleeping, he and his wife
were bound in their bed by eight masked
burglars who entered his handsome Broad-
way residence and robbed him of $13,000 in
bonds and money.

NELSON, Samuel Cogswell,

Business Man, Public Official.

The judgment of the world is quickly
passed upon a man who by any chance
rises above the common level, whether that
judgment be commendatory or the reverse.
That a life has been successful from a pe-
cuniary point of view does not satisfy the
public mind, but it is demanded that a man
to win public regard must not only be suc-
cessful in his own line, but he must win the
respect of his fellows through an honorable
and upright life. Considered then from
these angles, Samuel Cogswell Nelson, late
of Jersey City, New Jersey, was a success-
ful man, as he held the respect of his fel-
lowmen and left behind him the record of
a well spent life, one worthy of emulation.
He was of the same family as Lord Nelson,
the famous naval hero of England, and of
Thomas Nelson Page, equally famous as a
writer. Another ancestor was one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence.
The name of Nelson is of Scandinavian
origin, and was derived from Nilsson,
meaning son Nils or Neil. It is not only
found in Scotland and Ireland, but in al-
most every county in England, especially
in those bordering the sea which, in ancient
times, were exposed to frequent ravages by
the piratical Norsemen, or Vikings. In this
country the Nelsons of this family located
at an early date on the banks of the Hudson
at what is now known as Garrison's, but
was then Nelson's Landing. They were

farmers generally, and a number of them
took an active part in the War of the Rev-
olution.

Cornelius Madivale Nelson, father of
Samuel Cogswell Nelson, was born in
America, about 1780. He was a farmer,
and was also the local doctor and dentist,
and the blacksmith of the section. He held
the rank of major during the war of 1812,
his military services being in the Bronx,
and was buried at St. Philip's Church, at
Garrison, New York. He married Char-
ity Jacques.

Samuel Cogswell Nelson was born Feb
ruary 10, 1819, and died October 3, 1883.
His education was acquired in schools in the
vicinity of his home, and at the age of fifteen
years he came to New York City and there
entered the chandlery business, with which
he was identified until his retirement from
business responsibilities. He learned this
business thoroughly in every detail, rising
from rank to rank, by reason of his faith-
ful discharge of the duties entrusted to him,
until he was admitted to partnership, the
firm becoming Martin and Nelson. Subse-
quently Mr. Nelson acquired the sole rights
of this important concern, and conducted it
until his retirement from business. He re-
moved to Jersey City, New Jersey, April 5,
1865. He was a man of great executive
ability, active in the interests of the Dem-
ocratic party, and served as comptroller of
Jersey City. He was a member of St. Paul's
Episcopal Ouirch, and of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.

Mr. Nelson married Eliza Jane Watson,
of New York City, and they became the
parents of eleven children. Mandeville
Nelson, the eldest son, served as assistant
paymaster on the United States steamer
"Daylight," during the Civil War. He was
very young when he volunteered for ser-
vice, but was accepted, and soon became
paymaster. He was sent on a commission
to Washington, in a small boat. While there
he went to meet a comrade who had just
come from the South, thinly clad, and Mr.

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Nelson, fearing the cold for his friend,
wore a second overcoat over his own, in
order to give it to the new arrival. While
on the way, the boat capsized and Mr. Nel-
son, although handicapped by the weight
of the two coats, succeeded in saving the
lives of two sailors, but lost his own. For
many years these sailors visited the office
of Samuel Cogswell Nelson, to testify to
their grateful remembrance of his heroic
son.

MEEKER, John Harbeck,

Lawyer. Jurist, Financier.

John Harbeck Meeker, lawyer, statesman,
financier, was distinctly one of the repre-
sentative men of that section of New Jer-
sey in which he resided. He promoted the
public welfare through every conceivable
channel, and proved himself fully alive to
those higher duties which represent the
most valuable citizenship in any locality and
at any period. His personal career was
such as to render him particularly eligible
for representation within these pages.

Samuel Meeker, his father, was born at
Springfield, New Jersey, November 13,
1786. He received his business training
from his uncle, Samuel Meeker, who was
for many years a prominent merchant and
business man of Philadelphia. Samuel
Meeker, the second, manufactured car-
riages at Rahway, New Jersey, which for
many years he sold to the Southern trade,
having extensive buildings in Charleston,
South Carolina, to which city he shipped
the manufactured carriages, and exhibited
and sold them. After his retirement from
the business he had his residence on Broad
street, Newark, where Dr. Ill now resides.
From 1854 until his death he served as pres-
ident of the State Bank of Newark. He
also served for a number of years as pres-
ident of the Newark Savings Institution,
and was holding the office of vice-president
of that institution at the time of his death.
As president of the Newark Gas Company,

he also rendered excellent service. For
many years he was a vestryman, warden
and treasurer of Trinity Church, Newark.
Upon the erection of Grace Church, New-
ark, he joined it, and served as vestryman,
and afterwards as warden, continuing as
such until his death. Mr. Meeker married
Martha Harbeck, of New York City, the
ceremony being performed at old St.
Mark's Church, in that city.

John Harbeck Meeker was born in Clark
township, near Rahway, New Jersey, July 2,
1823, and died in South Orange, New Jersey,
January 20, 1889. At the age of six years
he commenced to attend the Rev. Mr. Hal-
sey's Preparatory Boarding School, at Eliz-
abeth. New Jersey, and was there prepared
for entrance to the university. He matric-
ulated at Yale College in 1838, and was
graduated from that institution in the class
of 1842. He then took up the study of
law and was admitted to the bar of New
Jersey in July, 1846. For many years he
was a manager of the Dime Savings Insti-
tution of Newark, and from May, 1881
until his death, he was the attorney and
counsel of that institution. In the early
years of his manhood he affiliated with the
Whig party, but about the year 1851 he
joined the Democratic party. He served
as secretary of the State Senate of New
Jersey in 1864-65; was a judge of the Es-
sex County Courts from 1877 to 1882;
special master of the Court of Chancery
for many years prior to his death ; and was
a Supreme Court Commissioner and also
a Commissioner of the United States Cir-
cuit Court. In early life he was an officer
in the New Jersey State Militia. For many
years he was a member of St. John's
Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, of
Newark, New Jersey. His early religious
training was that of the Presbyterian de-
nomination, but for many years prior to his
death he attended the services of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church.

Mr. Meeker married, in Newark, in Oc-
tober, 1846. Henrietta A. Bolles. daughter

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of Nathan and Abby Johnson (Baldwin)
Bolles, and they had children: Samuel,
born June 23, 1849, died January 31, 1902;
Henrietta Harbeck, who married Dr. Wnl-
ter J. Norfolk, of Salem, Massachusetts;
John Harbeck, born May 19, 1854, of East
Orange, New Jersey; Mary Abby French,
of East Orange, New Jersey ; Charles Hen-
ry, born September 19, 1865, who resides
at Newton, New Jersey.

SANDFORD, Theodore,

Man of Enterprise, Historian.

Among the men of high distinction,
scholarly attainments and wide experience
of Belleville, New Jersey, was the late
Theodore Sandford, well known in profes-
sional and public life for more than half
a century. To his own discretion, foresight
and superior ability was due the splendid
success that crowned his efforts. His well
spent life commended him to the confidence
and esteem of all with whom he was brought
in contact, and his reputation in both busi-
ness and public life was unassailable. He
was of the seventh generation in this coun-
try of the family founded by Captain Wil-
liam Sandford, and his family is entirely
distinct from that founded by the Rev. Cor-
nelis Van Santvoordt, one of the earliest
of the Dutch Reformed ministers to New
Netherlands.

Captain (or Major) William Sandford,
mentioned above, came to this country from
the Island of Barbadoes, West Indies, in
1668, and on July 4 of that year, he receiv-
ed a grant of all the meadows and upland
lying south of a line drawn from the Hack-
ensack to the Passaic rivers, seven miles
north of their intersection, comprising five
thousand three hundred and eight acres of
upland and ten thousand acres of
meadow. For this grant, which was the fa-
mous "Neck" of the early town rec-
ords of Newark, he agreed to pay twen-
ty pounds sterling per annum "in lieu of
the half-penny per annum forever." On

the July 20 following, he purchased from
the Indians all their right and title to the
same tract. Nathaniel Kingsland, sergeant-
major of the Island of Barbadoes, became
interested in this purchase ; and from the
fact that in the Newark town records, un-
der date of September 29, 1671, the free-
holders of Newark were empowered to
"Buy the Neck of Captain William Sand-
ford or his Uncle or Both if they Could
Agree for it and pay what they shall en-
gage." it has been conjectured that Major
Kingsland was William Sandford's uncle.
Of his other relations it is known that, Oc-
tober 9, 1676, the authorities at New York
granted Captain William Sandford letters
of administration on the estate of Robert
Sandford, of Barbadoes, "his nephew,"
who "by an unhappy accident came to be
drowned in the harbour near this city and
died intestate." William Sandford received
the confirmation of his grant from the
Dutch, August 1 8, 1673. He was offered a
place on the Council of Governor Philip
Carteret in 1669, but declined this. When
the Dutch finally relinquished the province,
Governor Cartaret returned, and Mr. Sand-
ford then accepted a position in his Coun-
cil, November 6, 1674, and retained this for
a number of years. Royal proclamation con-
tinued him as a councillor in the instructions
to Governor Thomas Rudyard, December
10. 1682, and in those of Gawen Lawrie,
February 28, 1684. In the last appointment
he is spoken of as "Major" William Sand-
ford ; his title of captain was conferred upon
him July 15, 1675, while he was residing at
Newark, and acting as captain of militia.
He married Sarah Whartman, and had chil-
dren : Nedemiah, Katherine. Peregrine.
\Villiam. Grace and Elizabeth.

William M. Sandford, a descendant in the
sixth generation of Captain William Sand-
ford, was born in Belleville, New Jersey,
April 3, 1798, and died there in 1888. He
was a manufacturer of carriages, and at one
time a member of the State Legislature. He
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24, 1894, and who was a daughter of John
Dow and Anna Bruen Dow. They had five
children.

Theodore Sandford, son of William M.
and Mary Spear (Dow) Sandford, was born
in Belleville, New Jersey, August 26, 1819,
and died in the same town, February 26,
1910. At the time he commenced to at-
tend school there was but one in the town
of his birth, and this was located in a two-
story, stone building, situated just in front
of the present lecture room of the Dutch
Reformed church, the school being conduct-
ed in the lower part of this building by Jere-
miah T. Bowen, who was paid every three
months by the parents for the tuition of their
children. This, and later two other private
schools, were patronized until the introduc-
tion of the public school system, September
4, 1852, when Mr. Sandford was selected as
one of the first school trustees. Upon the
completion of this part of his education Mr.
Sandford was apprenticed to learn the
wheelwright's trade, but his brilliant mind
was not satisfied with mere manual labor,
and he employed all his spare time in reading
law. He became a commissioner of deeds,
wrote numerous wills and other legal docu-
ments, and was the legal adviser of many.
For a period of more than fifty years he
was a country squire and justice of the
peace, in which offices he probably served
longer than any other man in the State of
New Jersey. He was a member of the
board of freeholders, and one of the first
directors in the Merchants' Mutual Insur-
ance Company of Newark. Throughout his
life Mr. Sandford took an active part in
community affairs, and he exercised a
marked influence in the development of
both his city and county. He was a pioneer
in local improvements and guarded with
jealous care the interests of the tax-paying
public. He was a strong supporter of the
Republican party, a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and attended the Reformed
church. He wielded a graceful and facile
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ics, and was the author of a well written
chapter upon the "History of Belleville
Township," which appears in Shaw's "His-
tory of Essex and Hudson Counties," which
was published in 1884.

Mr. Sandford married, November 16,
1842, Margaret Leah, the youngest child of
Abram and Maria (Spear) Van Riper, and
their surviving children are : Helen A., Ar-
thur Ellison, Sarah A. and Eliza Mary.
Several died in infancy. Mr. Sandford was
devoted to his wife and children. He was
gracious and hospitable in his home, sincere
and earnest in his religious faith, and so
honest and honorable in all the affairs of his
life, that the faintest breath was never raised
to question his integrity.

BONNELL, Samuel, Jr.,

Prominent Coal Merchant, Financier.

In the character of Samuel Bonnell Jr.,
of Elizabeth, New Jersey, were united in an
unusual degree enthusiasm, ambition and a
resistless energy, combined with striking
executive ability. He was a son of Sam-
uel and Cornelia (Bringherst) Bonnell, of
Philadelphia.

Samuel Bonnell Jr. was born in Philadel-
phia in 1824, and died in Elizabeth, New
Jersey, in 1885. A part of his education was
acquired in a school conducted by Quakers,
in Philadelphia, and he then completed it in
a school in Hamburg, Germany, where he
became a master of the German language.
LTpon his return to Philadelphia, he became
associated in the coal business with the firm
of Robert Walton & Company. In 1852 he
accepted the position of superintendent of
the Black Diamond Mine, at Wilkesbane,
and three years later established himself in
the coal business in the city of New York.
So successful was he in this enterprise that,
at the time of his death, he was the largest
independent coal merchant in New York.
He was a director of the National Fire and
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the- Dime Savings Institution of Elizabeth,
Xcvv Jersey. His New York firm was known
as S. Bonnell Jr. & Company, and for some
time after he was established in New York
he continued his connection with the coal
business in Philadelphia, the firm being
known as Van Dusen, Morter & Company.
He dealt mainly in Wyoming and Lehigh
Valley coal. He was well known throughout
the coal trade, and had large affiliations with
the shipping. For many years his office was
in the Trinity Building, and was the center
of the commission coal trade of New York.
While living in Philadelphia he was a mem-
ber of the Volunteer Fire Department. Af-
ter removing to Elizabeth, he took an active
part in public affairs of that town. He was
a member of the Elizabeth board of educa-
tion, and at one time was candidate for the
office of mayor, but was defeated by Peter
Bonnett. He was a leading worker in be-
half of a number of charitable institutions,
and served as vestryman in St. John's
Church for many years.

Mr. Bonnell married, November 30, 1854,
at Narrows, Long Island, Mary S. Oliver,
the Rev. Michael Schofield officiating. Chil-
dren of this marriage: Children of thi>
marriage : Adelaide and Russell. Mr. Bonneil
was a man of great public spirit. Every pro-
ject, which had for its object the improve-
ment of the community in any direction, was
assured of his hearty support and co-opera-
tion, and he contributed generously, not
only of his time, but also of his means. To
the needy and distressed ; he was ever a
fatherly friend, but his charities were al-
ways bestowed in as unostentatious a man-
ner as conditions would permit. In every
thought and deed he was truly a Christian
gentleman.

MOSES. John,

Man of Affairs, Financier.

John Moses, late of Trenton, New Jer-
sey, was not merely a business man who ac-
quitted himself with dignity, fidelity and

honor, in the various responsible positions
he was called upon to fill, but he was a thor-
oughly practical and true type of a selfmade
man. A man whose natural abilities would
secure him prominence in any community,
he won the approbation and esteem of his
fellow citizens. His work was widely ex-
tended, and will be felt for many years to
come. He was a son of David and Anne
(McFarland) Moses, the former an Eng-
lishman of Welsh descent, the latter a na-
tive of Scotland.

John Moses was born in County Tyrone,
Ireland, December 24, 1832, and died in
Trenton, New Jersey, January 21, 1902. He
was educated in the common schools of his
native country, and lived there until he was
eighteen years of age. Having by that time
come to the conclusion that there was but
little opportunity for an ambitious, energetic
young man to advance to any degree in Ire-
land, he determined to emigrate to Ameri-
ca. He arrived at Philadelphia in 1850 and
was fortunate enough to obtain a position
as invoice clerk with a firm of importers.
Levy & Company, at that time one of the
largest concerns of its kind in the country.
Subsequently he obtained a practical knowl-
edge of mining operations near Shamokin,
Pennsylvania. He removed to Trenton,
New Jersey, in 1855, and there became book-
keeper for Henderson G. Scudder, a posi-
tion he retained until President Lincoln's
call for three months' men in 1861. Hav-
ing served his time in Company A, Nation-
al Guard of New Jersey, from 1861 to
1863, he returned to Trenton and resumed
his work. During the summer and early
fall of 1863 he paid a visit to his native land,
and upon his return to Trenton, purchased
the pottery works which had been estab-
lished by William I. Shreve, but had not
proved profitable in his hands. Mr. Moses
associated Isaac Weatherby and S. K. Wil-
son with himself, in his conduct of this en-
terprise, and as they employed a man from
Glasgow to superintend the workings of the
factory, they gave it the name of the Glas-

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gow Pottery, and manufactured all kinds
of wares. Mr. Moses was connected with
this enterprise until his death, and it proved
to be a very profitable investment. His suc-
cess in this line of industry was recognized
by others in the same field, and he served
for a long time as president of the National
Potters' Association. He was interested in
a number of financial enterprises, in all of
which his business acumen was recognized,
and he was for several years president of
the Mechanics National Bank. His social
membership was with the Trenton Country
Club, and he was for a period of forty years
a vestryman and warden of St. Michael's
Protestant Episcopal Church. A large por-
tion of the later years of his life were de-
voted to travel, and he had gone several
times to the Pacific coast, and visited almost
every State in the Union. He also made
almost yearly trips to Europe.

Mr. Moses married, in Trenton, New Jer-
sey, April 20, 1865, Olivia Gardner, born in
1839, a daughter of Mortimer Paul and
Sarah Stratton (Gardner) Forman, and they
had children : Howard B., born July 5,
1866; Arthur G., born March 21. 1868, was
graduated from Princeton University in the
class of 1891 ; Frederick J., born Septem-
ber 22, 1870, was graduated from Prince-
ton in 1892; Walter, born May 10, 1872,
was graduated from Princeton in 1895 I Hel-
en G., was educated at Miss Porter's School
in Farmington, Connecticut ; Annie F.. died
in infancy. Mr. Moses was a man of gen-
uine business ability, whose judgment was
never warped, nor his foresight clouded.
The salient features of his character were
exemplified in his career, which was one of
usefulness and honor. No better descrip-
tion could be given of him than that con-
tained in the words : "He was a manly
man."

STOCKTON, Dr. Charles Stacy,

Leader in Community Affairs, Litterateur.

Dr. Charles Stacy Stockton, whose death
at the end of a long and useful career was a

severe shock to the community in which he
resided, had added greatly to the prestige
of his family name, which had already been
honored by many distinguished bearers. He
was the dean of the dental profession in
Xew Jersey, and the excellent work he ac-
complished has left its mark on dentistry
throughout the world. His family, which
was an ancient one in England, appeared in
this country in the early Colonial days, the
progenitor of this branch being Richard
Stockton, who was of Charleston, Massa-
chusetts, in 1639. He was one of the orig-
inal patentees of Flushing, Long Island,
where he was a lieutenant in the Horse
Guards, and a man of wealth and influence.
Later he became a member of the Society
of Friends, sold his Long Island property,
and purchased twelve hundred acres of land
in Springfield township, Burlington county,
New Jersey, where he died about 1706. He
married Abigail - — , who was living in
1714, and may have been his second wife.

Stacy Stockton, of the sixth generation
in this country, and father of Dr. Stockton,
married Eliza Rossell. Among other noted
ancestors of Dr. Stockton were Richard
Stockton, one of the signers of the Decla-
ration of Independence, and the grandson
of this Richard, Robert F. Stockton, known
as "the Commodore," whose work had great
effect in shaping this history of our country.
One of the public schools in Orange has
been named in honor of this family.

Dr. Charles Stacy Stockton was born in
Springfield township, Burlington county.
New Jersey, December 17, 1836, and died at
his home at No. 77 Harrison street, East
Orange, New Jersey, September 9, 1912.
He received his education at Pennington
Seminary, from which he was graduated as
the valedictorian of his class, and early
evinced a fondness for scientific study, and
displayed remarkable mechanical skill, two
attributes which well qualified him for the
profession of dentistry which he was desir-
ous of studying. He commenced his studies
in this direction under Dr. C. A. Kings-
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at the Penn College of Dental Surgery, from
which he was graduated with the degree of
Doctor of Dental Surgery. He commenced
his independent practice at Mount Holly,
where he became the successor of Dr. Kings-
bury, and continued there until 1873, in
which year he removed to Newark, New
Jersey. He has since confined his practice
to that city, but for several years prior to
his death had a beautiful home in East
Orange. It was mainly through his efforts
that the New Jersey Dental Society was
organized, and he was the last charter mem-
ber on the rolls. His interest in this society
never abated, and unless illness or distance
prevented, was never absent from a meet-
ing. He was also a charter member of the
Central Dental Association, a local society of
Xewark, and these two societies are con-
sidered the most successful of their kind in
the country. He was a member of the
American Dental Association, and at one
time its first vice-president. He was a mem-
ber of the American Medical Society, the
Odontological Society of New York City,
the Stomatological Society, and the First
District Society of New York, in the activi-
ties of all of which he was a leading spirit,
his addresses being listened to with the great-
est attention, and earning well deserved com-
mendation. In 1903 he was tendered a com-
plimentary dinner in New York City, which
was one of the largest gatherings of its
kind ever held, approximately three hundred
people being present, among these prom-
inent men from all parts of the country.
In many complimentary dinners since that
time Dr. Stockton was one of the principal
speakers, and was always certain of an in-
terested and attentive audience. He was se-
lected as one of the fifteen prominent den-
tists of the country to organize and bring in-
to successful existence the World's Colum-
bian Congress, of which he was one of the
vice-presidents. For the long period of fifty-
nine years he had been in the active practice
of his profession. Dr. Stockton took great
interest in the interchange of dental licenses

between the several states. In 1873 and
again in 1903 he was a member of the State
Board of Registration and Examination in
Dentistry. Through his personal efforts the
first thirteen hundred dollars was collected
for the establishment of the Newark Free
Dental Clinic. He was the first to move
in the interests of Newark's present fine
Free Library and the establishment of the
Newark Technical School. He was fre-
quently called upon to make addresses be-
fore colleges and seminaries, some of his
most prominent ones being: "Great Believ-
ers," which the Rev. Dr. Theodore Cuyler
said should be in the hands of every young
man in America. His address at Penning-
ton Seminary on "Right Thinking and Good
Living," also attracted widespread atten-
tion. His writings also were recognized as
possessing merit of high order. Among his
addresses and essays in published form we
find : "Dentistry and Something Else,"
"Culture," "Failures," "The Young Man of
Today," "The Autobiography of a Cent,''
"Great Believers," etc. He always showed
a commendable interest and activity in the
affairs of the Republican party, but although
he was frequently tendered high public of-
fice, repeatedly and consistently refused to
accept nomination. Dr. Stockton was a
strong Episcopalian and was frequently
called upon to represent Grace Church, Or-
ange, of which he was a regular communi-
cant, at the Diocesan conventions. As a busi-
ness man Dr. Stockton also displayed re-
markable ability, and was one of the direc-
tors of the Merchants' Bank, of Newark,
New Jersey. He had not alone a national,
but an international, reputation, and shortly
before his death had been invited to address
the various dental societies of Berlin, Ger-
many. Among other organizations with
which Dr. Stockton was connected were :
The Newark Harmonic Society, of which he
was the last president, in 1888: Washing-
ton Headquarters' Association, and one of
its governors ; Essex County Country Club ;
Republican Club of East Orange ; Essex

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Club; City Club of East Orange; St.
John's Lodge, No. i. Free and Accepted Ala-
sons. He was at one time president of the
Newark Board of Trade. He died after an
illness from which he had been suffering for
some years, and Rev. Charles Thomas Walk-
ley had charge of the funeral services, the
interment being at Perth Amboy, New Jer-
sey. Dr. Stockton was married, at Perth
Amboy, September 23, 1857, to Martha An-
nah, a daughter of Joel and Hannah (Oak-
ley) Smith, and they had children: Frank
Oakley, born April 26, 1859; Mary Knight,
born January 21, 1866, married Robert Wal-
lace Elliott, a sketch of whom follows this.

ELLIOTT, Robert Wallace,

Leader in Important Industries.

Robert Wallace Elliott holds distinctive
prestige as one of the representative busi-
ness men of the State of New Jersey. He
was an important factor in promoting the
interests of the State, in material, moral and
aesthetic lines. His ancestors were of
Scotch-Irish and Spanish extraction, and
included many eminent men, among them
being Sir William Elliott, of the English
Navy. Since the early part of the nineteenth
century, this branch of the Elliott family
has been resident in the LTnited States, great-
ly to the benefit of the communities in which
they have been located. The grandfather
of Mr. Elliott, Alexander Elliott, establish-
ed a foundry in Philadelphia about 1825.

Alexander Elliott was married to Anna
Leonard, daughter of Barnard Leonard, in
Larn, Ireland. Barnard Leonard was an
English officer, and was killed in battle un-
der Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar. Alex-
ander Elliott, their son, born in Carrickfer-
gus, Ireland, married Louisa Wallace,
daughter of Joseph Wallace (a soldier in
the War of 1812), and Elizabeth Sigman,
in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. Jacob
Sigman, who served in the Revolutionary
War, was married to Elizabeth Miller ; their
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Joseph Wallace, in Easton, Pennsylvania;
Louisa Wallace, their daughter, born in
Hanover, Pennsylvania, was married to
Alexander Elliott, in Mauch Chunk, Penn-
sylvania ; Robert Wallace Elliott, their son,
born in Dover, New Jersey.

Robert Wallace Elliott, son of Alexander
and Louisa (Wallace) Elliott, was born in
Dover, New Jersey, July u, 1856. He was
the recipient of an excellent education,
which was completed by attendance at Le-
high University, Pennsylvania, from which
institution he was graduated. He became
the manager of the iron mines of his father,
in New Jersey, in 1872, and had an active
and varied business career. He was the
manager of the Delaware Rolling Mills, at
Phillipsburg, New Jersey, from 1880 to
1883. On March I, 1885, he removed to Jer-
sey City, having formed a connection with
the Gas Improvement Company, and in 1890
was elected vice-president and general man-
ager of the Hudson County Gas Company.
At the time of his death he was the owner
of iron mines in Northern New Jersey, and
managed these with consummate ability. The
welfare of the unfortunate had always en-
gaged a goodly share of his time and atten-
tion, and he was appointed by Governor
Green as a member of the commission hav-
ing in charge the erection of a State Re-
formatory. His religious affiliation had been
with St. John's Church, Dover, New Jer-
sey, Grace Episcopal Church of Jersey
City, and Grace Church of Orange, New
Jersey. Socially he was a member of the
Manhattan and the Twilight Clubs, of New
York City; Palma and Cartaret Clubs, of
Jersey City, New Jersey.

Mr. Elliott married in East Orange, New
Jersey, August 6, 1894, Mary Knight, a
daughter of Dr. Charles Stacy and Martha
Annah (Smith) Stockton. He ranked
among the foremost business men of the
State and in social circles his pleasing per-
sonality, culture and genialitv won him
manv friends.

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LOCKWARD, Lewis Grover,

Financier, Public Official.

The life of Lewis Grover Lockward was
so closely associated with one community
that it is difficult to think of him apart from
that environment in which he was so fa-
miliar a figure, and upon which he left so
potently the impress of his individuality.
Born, living out a long life of varied use-
fulness, all within the compass of a small
town, and only leaving it at the final, inevit-
able summons, his influence was intensive
rather than extensive, and the significance
of his personality lay, not so much in its
ability to affect great numbers of his fel-
lows, as in the trenchancy with which it was
felt within the comparatively small circle
that he called home. How strong was this
effect may be judged from the fact that all
the business houses in his native town, as a
mark of respect, suspended all operations
during the hour in which his funeral took
place.

Mr. Lockward's father, Dr. John T.
Lockward, was born in New York City in
1808, and studied medicine at the Mary-
land State Medical College. From this in-
stitution he graduated in 1833. and came to
Caldwell, New Jersey, to practice. Here he
married Charlotte Personnette, a native of
Caldwell, and here on July 14, 1839, the sub-
ject of this sketch was born.

Mr. Lockward was educated in the
schools of Caldwell and vicinity, and in
1867, in his twenty-ninth year, was taken
into the firm of Campbell & Lane, manufac-
turers of tobacco and cigars. In this busi-
ness he continued, with a single break of
five years, from 1874 to 1879, until his
death, the firm eventually taking the name
of the Lane and Lockward Company.

Mr. Lockward was a Democrat in poli-
tics, and filled many public offices with a
rectitude and disinterestedness as admir-
able as it is rare. He was in 1872 and
1886 a member of the township committee
of Caldwell township when it still included

the borough of Caldwell and the township
of Verona, and he also served on the Board
of Freeholders of Essex county, 1874-76,
and as collector 1877-79. He was elected
the first mayor of Caldwell borough, Feb-
ruary 9, 1892, an office which he held for
two years, declining a re-election. For six-
teen years, from 1882 to 1898, he was a
member of the Caldwell Board of Educa-
tion, and for nine years its president. Mr.
Lockward's activities were of the most var-
ied sort, and he took a keen interest in all
the affairs of the community, especially in
the education of the young people and the
conduct of the public schools. He was one
of the organizers of the Citizens National
Bank, and president of the same until a
short time before his death, when, realizing
the precarious condition of his health, he
refused to sanction his re-election although
urged to do so. He was one of the organ-
izers and first president of the Caldwell
Building and Loan Association, and one of
the organizers and a director of the New
Jersey Fire Insurance Company. In re-
ligion he was a staunch Presbyterian and
also a member of the Caldwell Presbyterian
Church, of which he was elected parish
clerk, December 28, 1878, a position which
he held for upwards of thirty years. He
was also a trustee of the church and active in
urging the present church edifice. Mr. Lock-
ward was for many years prominent in the
Masonic Order. He joined Caldwell
Lodge, No. 59, Free and Accepted Masons,
February 6, 1863, and served as junior
warden and worshipful master. Three
years later he joined Union Chapter, No.
7, Royal Arch Masons, of Newark, and
again in 1870, and was a member of Damas-
cus Commandery, Knights Templar, of
Newark. In 1891 he became a member of
the Masonic Veterans Association of New
Jersey.

Mr. Lockward married, October 5, 1871,
Anna M. Crane, daughter of Zenas C. and
Mary (Harrison) Crane, thus establishing
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ilies in the State. Mrs. Lockvvard's ances-
tors were, indeed, among the original set-
tlers in that part of New Jersey, coming
from Connecticut in 1666, and settling in
the neighborhood of Newark, where they
bought their land directly from the Indians.
Mr. and Mrs. Lockward had three sons,
two of whom survive their father. They
were Lewis Gibson, born August /, 1872,
died December 28, 1875 ; Robert Crane,
born June 19. 1874; Lynn Grover, born
June 15, 1878.

Mr. Lockward died on February 13,
1913, in the seventy- fourth year of his age.
In his death Caldwell mourns the loss of
one of her leading and most public spirit-
ed citizens.

PEMBERTON, Samuel Hall,

Civil War Veteran, Public Official.

It is certainly within the province of true
history to commemorate and perpetuate the
lives of those men whose careers have been
of signal usefulness and honor to the city
and State in which they resided, and in
this connection it is not only compatible,
but absolutely imperative, that mention
should be made of Samuel Hall Pemberton,
late of Newark, New Jersey, who was of
English descent, but devoted himself to the
service of this country with a degree of
patriotism worthy of emulation.

William M. Pemberton, his father, was
born in Birmingham, England, emigrated
to America in 1829, and made his home in
Bloomfield, New Jersey, for about two
years. He then removed to Waterbury,
Connecticut, and finally settled in the State
of New Jersey, where he resided until his
death. In England he had been a major in
the army, and he was a gold plater by occu-
pation. He married Mary Hall.

Samuel Hall Pemberton was born in
Waterbury, Connecticut, February 27,
1837, and died in Newark, New Jersey,
January 3, 1903. His education was ac-
quired in the schools of his native town and

at the Oxford Boarding School. He re-
moved to Newark, New Jersey, at the same
time as his parents, and there learned the
jewelry trade with Palmer Richardson &
Company, from whom he went to Ailing
Brothers, in the same line of business, and
remained with them for a period of twen-
ty-five years. At the outbreak of the Civil
War he enlisted, and was mustered into
Company A, First Regiment New Jersey
Volunteer Infantry, April 30, 1861. Sep-
tember 3, 1862, he was enrolled a member
of Company C, Twenty-sixth Regiment,
New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, mustered
in September 18, 1862, and mustered out
June 27, 1863, having been captain of this
company. From the time of attaining his
majority he had been an active worker in
the interests of the Republican party. In
course of time he was elected to the office
of City Clerk, served in this eight years,
and was then appointed to a position in the
tax office, of which he was the incumbent
until his death. In 1896, when the Demo-
cratic party came into power, Mr. Pember-
ton was removed from office, but he car-
ried the matter to the courts, and was re-
instated under the Veteran Act. He was
held in high esteem by all in the commun-
ity, and at the time of his funeral services,
all the municipal offices were closed. He
was a member of Lincoln Post, No. n,
Grand Army of the Republic ; Newark
Lodge, No. 7, Free and Accepted Masons ;
and the Northern Republican Club.

Mr. Pemberton married, October 26,
1864, Jane Root, of Waterbury, Connecti-
cut, and they were blessed with one child :
Lillian, who married Thomas Austin Bald-
win. The death of Mr. Pemberton left a
gap in the community not easily filled. He
was a man of broad outlook on life, and
of the most generous and liberal views. His
personality was modest and unassuming,
notwithstanding the success he had achiev-
ed, and he never varied from the quiet
mode of life he had early chosen. Genial
and tactful, his intercourse with his friends

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and subordinates was always marked with
esteem and consideration, and he won their
affection as well as their respect.

CADMUS, Stephen Van Cortlandt,

Civil War Veteran, Excellent Citizen.

Well known in the business and social
world of Newark, New Jersey, for many
years, was Stephen Van Cortlandt Cadmus,
whose life history most happily illustrates
what may be obtained by faithful and con-
tinued effort in devotion to an honest pur-
pose. Integrity, activity and energy weie
characteristic of his disposition, and his pa-
triotism was of an ardent and enduring
kind. He was a descendant of a family whose
earlier members had fought in the Revolu-
tion, the American progenitor of the family
coming to this country from Holland.

Thomas Jefferson Cadmus, father of
Stephen Van Cortlandt Cadmus, was a
famous architect of his day, one of the
works he executed being the older portion
of the Capitol at Albany, New York. Upon
the completion of this work he went to
Illinois, then to Wisconsin, where his death
occurred. He married Elizabeth Garrison,
a member of a family who had lived on the
banks of the Hudson many years, and who
took an active part in the Civil War. The
family later resided at Bellevue, New Jer-
sey, near Newark, from which sections the
sons enlisted during the Civil War.

Stephen Van Cortlandt Cadmus was born
in Schenectady, New York, June 8, 1838,
and died at his home in Newark, New Jer-
sey, in 1901. He acquired his education
in the public schools of his native town,
then went to Illinois with his mother, to
join his father, making the trip by way of
the Erie canal. He learned the trade of
engraving, but his pursuit of this art was
interrupted by his participation in the Civil
War. He enlisted in Company H, Second
Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantrv,
as did also his brothers Henry and Jeffer-
son, and his brothers-in-law George R.

Hard and William Russ. Mr. Cadmus en-
listed for three years, then re-enlisted, and
served until the close of the war. He was
wounded several times, and was sunstruck
at the battle of Bull Run. At the close of
the war he entered the employ of John H.
Bently, as an engraver, and remained at this
occupation, until impaired vision obliged
him to retire. He was a member of the
Royal Arcanum, and of the local post,
Grand Army of the Republic. His intensely
patriotic spirit remained with him to the end
of his life, and at an advanced age he
would still drive to the cemetery on Decora-
tion Day to take part in the memorial ser-
vices.

Mr. Cadmus married, June 15, 1865,
Emilie Victor L'Aigle, whose father, a na-
tive of France, was in the government ser-
vice there, and then came to America, locat-
ed at Newark, New Jersey, and died there.
Children : Grace Louise, Gertrude Isabella,
Mildred Emilie.

COOKE, Watts,

Leader in Important Industries.

While the race is not always to the swift
nor the battle to the strong, the inevitable
law of destiny accords to tireless energy,
industry and ability a successful career.
The truth of this assertion was abundantly
verified in the life of the late Watts Cooke,
who for many years was prominent in rail-
road and manufacturing circles. Through
his well directed efforts he attained a posi-
tion of distinction, not only along the lines
of industrial activity, but by reason of his
marked loyalty and devotion to the public
good. Mr. Cooke gained the highest regard
of all with whom he associated.

Watts Cooke was born in Matteawan,
Dutchess county, New York, November 29,
1833, a son of Watts and Lavinia (Donald-
son) Cooke. He attended the common
schools of his native place, later accompany-
ing his parents to Paterson, New Jersey,
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in the school adjacent to his home. Being
thus well equipped, he entered upon an
active business career, his first employment
being in the shops of the Rogers Locomo-
tive Works in Paterson, where he learned
the trade of locomotive builder, but he left
prior to the expiration of his term of ap-
prenticeship, next entering the employ of
Danforth, Cooke & Company, locomotive
builders, of which firm his brother, John
Cooke, was a member. While in this em-
ploy, he was sent as an expert to Scranton,
Pennsylvania, to place in commission ami
adjust the first coal burning locomotive in
use, the same having been built at the works
in Paterson with which he was connected.
He performed this difficult task in an ex-
ceedingly satisfactory manner, gaining for
himself the commendation and approval of.
his superiors in the works. At this time
he was offered the position of master me-
chanic by Mr. D. H. Dotterer, superintend--.
ent of the Lackawanna railroad, which of-
fice he accepted, performing the duties
thereof in a highly creditable manner, rec-
ognition of his service being shown in his
advancement to the position of superintend-
ent of the railroad, under the command of
Mr. John H. Brisbin, then president of the
road. After serving in that capacity for a
number of years, his tenure of office being
noted for efficiency and faithfulness to duty,
he was appointed superintendent of rolling
stock, in which position he served until his
resignation from the corporation, which was
accepted with reluctance on the part of those
most concerned.

Mr. Cooke then organized the Passaic
Rolling Mills, erecting the plant in Paterson,
New Jersey, first manufacturing iron and
finally steel, which was a successful enter-
prise from the beginning, gaining in volume
of business and importance with each pass-
ing year, becoming in course of time one
of the leading industries of that thriving
city. Among the many contracts awarded
to the concern was the building of a large
part of the elevated railroad and the Wash-

ington Bridge in New York City, both of
which stand as monuments to his skill and
ability along these lines. He was a thor-
ough master of all that pertained to con-
struction work, possessing a constructive
mind, which added to natural mechanical
genius, and a wide and varied experience,
made him a leader in that particular field
of endeavor. He possessed all the qualifi-
cations of an employer, having a strong
sense of fairness, dealing with his employees
as though they were men. not mere ma-
chines, and thus kept in close touch with
them, avoiding in this way the strikes so
common in these days. He was respected
and esteemed by all over whom he had
control, they recognizing in him the char-
acteristics of a true man.

Mr. Cooke. throughout his entire busi-
ness career, was looked upon as a man of
integrity and honor, fulfilling all his obliga-
tions, and standing as an example of what
determination and force, combined with the
highest degree of business ability, can ac-
complish. In early life Air. Cooke held
membership in the Second Presbyterian
Church of Paterson, but later he joined with
Mr. G. T- A. Coulson in the organization of
the East Side Presbyterian Church, to
which he thereafter gave liberally of his
time and substance. In politics he was al-
ways a staunch Republican, taking an ac-
tive interest in the councils of his party, but
never aspiring to more than local office, in
which he served with exceptional ability,
preferring to devote his time and attention
to his business pursuits. He was an ac-
tive factor in community affairs, and his
worth as a man and citizen were widely
acknowledged. Aside from his home life,
which was ideal, he having been an affec-
tionate husband and devoted father, he de-
rived his greatest pleasure from traveling,
which he did to a large extent, and in en-
tertaining in his home, he being particularly
fond of having young people there, taking a
keen pleasure and interest in their pursuits.

Mr. Cooke married, on May i, 1856,

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Emma C. Krcssler. of Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, a daughter of David K. and Eliza
(Felfiriger) Kressler. She spent her early
days in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Children
of Mr. and Mrs. Cooke: i. John K.. mar-
ried Anna Louise Thorne ; he is deceased.
2. Anna Belle, who became the wife of
Albert C. Fairchild. 3. Elizabeth Britton.
who became the wife of Robert B. Coulson.
4. Emma Dora, who became the wife of
Frederick F. Searing. 5. Edward Payson.
married Georgie Utley MacRae. 6. Oakley
Watts, married Emily S. Hopper. The
family home is at No. 728 East Twenty-
fifth street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Mr. Cooke died September 25, 1900, la-
mented and mourned by all who had the
honor of his acquaintance, and left behind
him the priceless heritage of an honored
name, which is far better than great wealth.
As he lived, so he died, always actuated
by a spirit of love and duty, and he com-
manded the respect and esteem of all with
whom he came in contact during his active
and useful career.

HUNT, Sylvester Henry, A.M., M.D.,

Physician, Surgeon, Philanthropist.

In the medical and other professional
circles of the State of New Jersey, the
name of Dr. Sylvester Henry Hunt has al-
ways been held in the highest esteem as
that of a man who has done much to furth-
er the interests of the medical profession.
He was a son of Henry and Ann Eliza
(Marston) Hunt, the former at one time a
wholesale druggist, of Troy. New York,
where the family resided for some time.

Dr. Sylvester Henry Hunt was born in
Troy, Rensselaer county. New York, June
21, 1837, and died in New Jersey, May 5,
1891. For some years he was a pupil in
the public schools of Troy, then attended
the Lansingburgh Academy, where he ob-
tained his classical education. He was but
fourteen years of age when he was thrown
upo'n his own resources, owing to the im-

paired health and business failure of his
father. Nothing daunted, he continued his
studies at night school while serving an ap-
prenticeship of two years, then entered
Charlotteville Seminary, where, in the
course of one and a half years, he prepared
himself for entrance into Union College.
Circumstances combined to prevent his
carrying out this idea, and he went to Free-
hold, and there commenced teaching school,
the results he achieved being so satisfactory
that, when he left this town, he had charge
of the Freehold Academy. He earned high
commendation while pursuing this career,
his work being characterized by the thor-
oughness which was a distinguishing mark
of his character. In the fall and winter of
1862 he attended lectures at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, in New York-
City, and the following spring successfully
passed his examination for the post of
medical cadet in the United States army.
He received a year's appointment to Had-
dington Army Hospital, and having attend-
ed lectures at the Jefferson Medical Cr.
lege, Philadelphia, during the winter of this
year, was awarded his degree of Doctor of
Medicine by this institution. Early in 1864
he was appointed assistant surgeon in the
Fifth United States Veteran Volunteers,
First Corps, this being under the command
of General Winfield S. Hancock, and re-
mained in the service until one year after
the close of the war. During this year he
was mainly engaged in detailed duty. He
was the medical officer in charge of the
Battery Barracks, New York City, during
the winter of 1865-66, and at that time
completed his third course at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons. The honorary
degree of Master of Arts was later con-
ferred on Dr. Hunt bv Claflin University. In
the spring of 1866 Dr. Hunt resigned his
army commission and established himself
in the practice of his profession at Eaton-
town, New Jersey, and followed it there
successfully for a period of fifteen years.
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county, New Jersey, in the fall of 1881,
and resided there until his death. His ex-
cellent reputation had preceded him, and
almost from the outset of his residence in
Long Branch, Dr. Hunt had a large and
lucrative practice. He won the affection as
well as the confidence of his numerous pa-
tients, by his ready sympathy, and the truly
human interest in their troubles. He was
not merely the skillful physician, but also
the wise counselor and the sincere friend,
and this endeared him to the hearts of all.
The improvement of existing conditions al-
ways engaged the especial attention of Dr.
Hunt, and he was the leading spirit in the
organization of the Monmouth Memorial
Hospital, of which he was president at the
time of his death. For a long time he
served as president of the Long Branch
Board of Health, and in this office exerted
a marked influence in securing an improved
sewage system for this district. He was
a member of the Masonic fraternity, the
State Medical Society of New Jersey, the
New Jersey Microscopical Society and the
Monmouth County Medical Society. His
religius affiliation was with the Methodist
Church, and his political support was giv-
en to the Republican party. In his earlier
years he had been of a thin and wiry figure,
but in later years he increased in stature
until he weighed three hundrd pounds, and
was a man of fine, stately bearing.

Dr. Hunt married, at Eatontown, May
26, 1870, Elizabeth S., daughter of John
C. and Elizabeth (Swan) Parker, and they
became the parents of children as follows :
Alice C. L., born May 27, 1871, who died
in 1877; Mollie P., born October 4, 1872,
died in 1883 ; Sylvester Henry, Jr., born
February 3, 1879. Dr. Hunt was a con-
spicuous example of success earned by his
own talents and industry, and as a citizen
he was no less worthy of the esteem and
respect he won. No good cause for the
betterment of the unfortunate but received
his generous support, and the community

had in him an exemplar of all the virtues
of a good citizen.

DOUGLAS, Frederick S.,

Manufacturer, Financier, Philanthropist.

The men of deeds are the men whom the
world delights to honor, and the man who,
out of the resources at his command, cre-
ates something which is of benefit to the
world at large, is a man of this caliber.
How to add to the happiness of the world
is the main idea in the minds of such men
as the late Frederick S. Douglas, of Newark,
New Jersey, who occupied a prominent posi-
tion in manufacturing, commercial and
financial circles.

Frederick S. Douglas, who was a son
of Samuel and Elizabeth ( Rockerfellow)
Douglas, was born in Newark, New Jer-
sey, October 31, 1844. He entered the
public schools of the city at the usual age
and was graduated from the high school
in the class of 1861. After a slight pre-
liminary experience he became associated
with his uncle, Mr. L'Hommedieu, in the
stationery business, with which he was con-
nected until 1866. He then formed a busi-
ness partnership with Joseph H. Shafer, for
the purpose of manufacturing jewelry, and
met with decided success in the conduct
of this enterprise. He was personally in-
terested in a number of other business ven-
tures, among them being the following:
Director of the National Newark Bank,
also of the Firemen's Insurance Company ;
president of the Jeweler's Association of the
city of New York, and of the Newark
Rosendale Cement Company. He was very
active in the interests of the Young Men's
Christian Association, and made it a per-
sonal matter to assist those young men who
were obliged to make their homes with
strangers.

Mr. Douglas married, June 10, 1868, Jane
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Chittenden (Woodruff) Heath, and a lineal
descendant of Thomas Woodrove or Wood-
reeve, who lived in the reign of Henry VII,
and of his descendant, John Woodroff, vho
came to America about 1639 and became
the American progenitor of the Woodruff
family. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas had chil-
dren: i. Stafford Heath, born June 22,
1871, died December 31, 1877. 2. Fred-
erick Heath, born March 12, 1878; he mar-
ried Edith Rossiter, and they have had chil-
dren: Elizabeth, born March 9, 1909, and
Janet, born June 3, 1911.

The death of Mr. Douglas, which oc-
curred suddenly at The Hague, June 7,
1898, was regarded as a great ca-
lamity throughout the city of New-
ark and in many other places. Practically
throughout his life he had been connected
with the Bureau of Associated Charities,
and had been a personal worker in its be-
half. It was not alone that he gave liberal-
ly of his time and means, and his personal
efforts in this cause were of far-reaching
effect. He was a member of the Dutch
Reformed Church of Newark, and was a
generous contributor to the city and nation-
al churches. A devoted lover of fine arts,
he was especially fond of music, and for a
period of twenty years was organist in the
Clinton Avenue Reformed Church. As a
citizen Mr. Douglas was esteemed by all,
and always sustained the character of a
true, Christian gentlemen. Principles of the
strictest integrity were the foundation of all
his business transactions, and every trust
was carried out with fidelity.

WALKER, John A.,

Manufacturer, Enterprising Citizen.

The name of Walker is one which is well
known, not alone in Jersey City, New Jer-
sey, but in every corner of the civilized
world. It is closely identified with some
of the most important industries of recent
years, and the members of this family have
been noted for their general excellent busi-

ness qualities, and for their humanitarian
ideas in every direction. These superlative-
ly fine traits have been transmitted in full
measure to the late John A. Walker, who,
all his life, did much to further the interests
of the community in which he resided.

John A. Walker was born in New York
City, of Scotch parents, September 22, 1837,
and died at his home in Jersey City, New
Jersey, on May 23d, 1907. His elementary
education was acquired in the public
schools of Brooklyn, New York, af-
ter which he was prepared for entrance
to college at a private school. A business
life, however, appealed to him more strong-
ly than the years he would be obliged to
devote to study were he to enter college.
and at the time of the outbreak of the Civil
War, he had already acquired some reputa-
tion in the business world of New York.
He gave his services whole-heartedly to the
cause of his country, as he did everything
else, and when this war had been terminat-
ed, Mr. Walker again turned his attention
to business pursuits. In 1867 he became
associated with the firm of Joseph Dixon
& Company, in Jersey City, manufacturers
of graphite products, and this connection
was unbroken until his death. He removed
his residence to Jersey City, about this time,
and there made his permanent home. In
1868 the firm was incorporated, becoming
the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, of
which Mr. Walker was secretary and man-
ager, a dual office he filled until 1891. In
that year he was unanimously elected by his
associates as vice-president and treasurer,
he having practically filled the latter posi-
tion for a considerable length of time. He
discharged the duties of these two offices
during the remainder of his life, in addition
to assisting in the general management of
the concern. It was owing to his executive
ability, which was of an unusually high
order, that the affairs of the company,
which were in a very unsatisfactory condi-
tion when they were entrusted to his hands,
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tion, in a comparatively short time, and
the concern now has a world-wide reputa-
tion.

Mr. Walker was one of that class of men
who recognize the full value of every mo-
ment, and never allow one to remain idle.
Although the business spoken of made
many demands upon his time and attention,
this but appeared to inspire him to further
effort, and he was actively identified with
a number of other leading enterprises.
Among these may be mentioned : Vice-pres-
ident of the Colonial Life Insurance Com-
pany; director in the New Jersey Title and
Guarantee Company, Pavonia Trust Com-
pany, and Provident Institution for Sav-
ings; president of the Children's Friend So-
ciety, all these of Jersey City ; trustee of the
Stationers' Board of Trade, of New York.;
vice-president of the National Stationers'
and Manufacturers' Association; was a
member of the Chamber of Commerce of
New York, and of the Board of Trade of
Jersey City ; chairman of the executive com-
mittee of the Cosmos Club of Jersey City ;
member of the Carteret and the Union
League clubs of Jersey City, and the Lin-
coln Association, of the same place : mem-
ber of the National Geographic Society :
associate member of the American Institute
of Mining Engineers, and of the Society
for Psychical Research. In political mat-
ters Mr. Walker gave his undivided sup-
port to the Republican party. He never
aspired to public office, although he was
frequently tendered it. The only instances
in which he made an exception to this was
in the cause of education, in which he was
deeply interested. He was a member of the
Jersey City Board of Education twice, be-
ing chosen president of that honorable body
during his period of service, and he also
held office as one of the trustees of the
Jersey City Public Library. He excelled
as a writer, and would undoubtedly have
made his mark in the world of literature,
had he chosen to devote his mental powers
to that field. He was a born orator, and

was in frequent demand as a public speaker
on important occasions.

The "Colonial News," the official organ
of the Colonial Life In>urauce Company of
America, devoted its entire first page of
the issue which was published shortly after
the death of Mr. Walker to an article en-
titled "His Words Abide," which reported
some of the speeches of Mr. Walker. It
also printed the following letter, written bj
the manager of the above-mentioned omi
pany to the president of the same corpora-
tion :

"New Brunswick, N. J., May 27, 1907.
"Ernest J. Heppenheimer. Esq., President :

"Dear Sir : — While the Company is to be con-
gratulated upon almost reaching its tenth anni-
versary without a visitation of death among us,
its officers, still it will be more than acknowl-
edged, when the grim reaper did appear, he aimed
high and hit a shining mark when he gathered td
his fathers the gentle, ennobling, inspiring John
A. Walker, Second Vice-President of the Com-
pany. The writer learned much from his char-
acter. He was as sweet as country cream. His
eyes, his face, his words seem before me and I
think I can still hear his gentle, simple words —
"without malice." pointing the road to success.
1 1 c was a worker, and worked in sympathy with
all mankind, for he was a believer in the free
and equal. When his remains are committed to
mother earth, no sweeter sod was ever trod by
man than the one that will cover John A. Walk-
er. With sincere sympathy and respect. I am.

"Respectfully.
"(Signed) J. Hughes. Manager."

The official announcement of the death
of Mr. Walker was made to the field force
of the Colonial Life by its president, E. J.
Heppenheimer, and one cannot but mark
its sad eloquence :

"Hardly past the threshold of our tenth year
and grateful for the unusual immunity a kind
Providence has thus far bestowed on the official
family of this company, it becomes my sad duty
to announce the death of our much beloved sec-
ond vice-president, John A. Walker.
The members of the field staff, who will long re-
member his genial presence at our annual con-
ventions, which he invariably attended, though
often with great danger to his health, will re-
ceive this sad intelligence with profound sorrow.

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To the officers and directors of this Company, in
whose councils his opinions and judgment were
accorded deserved respect, the death of John A.
Walker comes as a great personal loss."

A noted biographer wrote of Mr. Walker
as follows:

"In intellect he was keen, clear, critical, intui-
tive. In business he was thoughtful, cautious in
looking ahead and preparing for emergencies.
He had what is known as a wiry organization.
His moral brain made him a just man. He was
of the staunch Presbyterian school. What he be-
lieved to be right he did — no matter what others
might do or say. Yet he was not contrary, nor
set in his ways, nor unreasonable. While his
sympathies were keen and easily aroused, and
his hand ready to open, yet no one found him
wasting anything. He was shrewd, energetic,
liberal minded, and greatly enjoyed a good joke
and plenty of fun in its place. Nothing escaped
his eye."

MYERS, James Lawrence,

Noted Money Expert, Ideal Citizen.

In the career of the late James Law-
rence Myers, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, we
find many points well worthy of emulation.
He was equally well known in the business
and social life of the cities with which he
was connected, and had gained a reputation
second to none. Both nature and education
had well qualified him for the arduous line
of business he had chosen as his vocation.
Himself a typical example of that keen and
large-minded business man who carries the
weight of affairs of the utmost importance,
he was ever ready to undertake another
burden, if by so doing he might by deed or
example benefit or further any movement
pointing towards the betterment of indus-
trial or municipal conditions.

James Lawrence Myers, son of William
T. Myers, was born in Philadelphia, in
1847, and c!'e(l at his home in Elizabeth,
New Jersey. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools of his native city, being gradu-
ated from the high school, and was engaged
in business there until he was twenty-five
years of age. He then came to New York

City, in order to increase his business ex-
perience, and there became associated with
the firm of Handy & Harman, who were
leading brokers on the Stock Exchange.
Mr. Myers became well known on Wall
street. New York City, being considered
one of the greatest coin and money experts
in the country. He was frequently consult-
ed by others, and his opinion considered au-
thoritative. Banks, and even the United
States Treasury, called him in consultation.
The cause of education always had his lib-
eral support, and he was a member of the
board of trustees of the Pingry School in
Elizabeth, at the time of his death. He was
a devout member of the Westminster
Church, and contributed liberally to the
support of that institution. He was a mem-
ber of the Viking Boat Club, and filled I he
dual office of captain and vice-president in
that organization ; he was also a member of
the Mattano Club, and the Elizabeth Ath-
letic Club, being especially active in the last
mentioned. He removed to Elizabeth, New
Jersey, about 1879, and at the time of his
death was living at No. 840 Broad street,
where his widow and children are still ie-
siding.

Mr. Myers married Amelia O. Allen, and
had children : Cornelius T. ; Allen F., mar-
ried ; Mary H., married ; James L. ; Mar-
garet F.

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HOWE, Dr. Edwin Jenkins,

Physician, Man of Broad Charity.

A well known member of the profession
of medicine was Dr. Edwin Jenkins Howe,
who was born in Orange, New Jersey, July
2, 1849, and was found dead in his bed in
his home at No. 22 East Kinney street, on
the morning of March 14, 1905.

Rev. John Moffat Howe, M.D., father
of Dr. Edwin Jenkins Howe, was noted as
a dentist, and gained an especial reputation
as a local preacher in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. He married Emeline Barn-
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(Barnard) Jenkins. Major Bezaleel
Howe, grandfather of the Dr. Howe of
this sketch, served in the Continental army
seven years, and in the United States army,
as it was known after the Revolution, for
a period of fourteen years. He was an
auxiliary lieutenant in the Life Guards of
General George Washington, and a mem-
ber of the commander-in-chief's army fam-
ily during the last years of the Revo-
lutionary struggle. At the close of the war,
while he was still holding the rank of cap-
tain, he was in command of the escort
which took the baggage and papers of Gen-
eral Washington from New York to Mount
Yernon. In the rooms of the New Jersey
Historical Society in Newark, New Jersey,
there is on file Washington's letter to Cap-
tain Howe, a document covering thiee
pages of foolscap, giving full instruction
concerning the transportation of the bag-
gage. Captain Howe was retired with the
rank of major after twenty-one years of
continuous service.

The name of Howe was written How, as
shown in the Lake country of England. Da
La Howe was originally the name of the
family when it came over with William the
Conqueror, and it meant, as then written,
literally "from the hills." It was Major
Howe who added the final "e" to the name.
and this spelling has been retained by the
succeeding generations. Dr. Howe's father
was one of the first members of the State
Board of Education, and was active in the
establishment of the State Normal School.
The first of the family to settle in this
country was John How, who came here in
1635, and was the first settler in Marlboro.
Massachusetts. One of his sons was Colo-
nel Thomas Howe, the great-grand father
of Major Bezaleel Howe, mentioned above.
Many of this family have distinguished
themselves in military and professional
life.

Dr. Edwin Jenkins Howe spent his
early childhood in the city of New York,
although the vacations were passed at the
summer home of the family in the Oranges,

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New Jersey. Later the family removed to
Passaic, New Jersey, where Dr. I lowe
completed his preparatory education. Hav-
ing decided to make the practice of medi-
cine his life work, Dr. Howe prepared for
college at the Wilbraham, Massachusetts,
Academy, and then became a student at the
Wesleyan University at Middletown, Con-
necticut, from which he was graduated in
the class of 1870. He next matriculated at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
New York City, from which he was gradu-
ated with honor in the class of 1873. He
had become greatly interested in the Home-
opathic School of Medicine, followed this
line of study, and was graduated from the
Homeopathic College. His hospital prac-
tice was obtained in the city of New York,
where he served an interneship of one year,
and in 1876 he established himself in the
practice of his profession in Newark, with
which he was successfully identified for
many years. In many respects he was a
leader along the lines of homeopathic prac-
tice, served as an early president of the
Homeopathic Society of New Jersey, read
many papers on a variety of topics that
were of interest to the medical profession
and was a liberal contributor to medical
publications.

Dr. Howe took the natural interest of a
good citizen in all matters connected with
political affairs, giving his support to the
Republican party, but neither desired nor
held a political office. Educational matters
had his hearty support, and he accomplish-
ed excellent results as a member of the
board of trustees of the Newark Academy.
He was a member of the Sons of the Amer-
ican Revolution, the Essex Club and the
New Jersey Historical Society. He was an
efficient and consistent worker in the inter-
ests of the Central Methodist Church, in
which he held an official position for years,
and was also superintendent of the Sunday
school.

Dr. Howe married, November 18, 1875,
Sarah Louise, a daughter of Henry and
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no children to survive them. Mrs. Howe
was an invalid for many years. Dr. Howe
was a man of courage and sincerity in his
profession, and won the esteem of his
brethren in the medical fraternity. He was
well informed upon the leading topics of
the day as well as on matters connected
with his professional work, and his efforts
were always on the side of improving ex-
isting conditions. He practiced warm-
hearted charity in thought, work and deed,
and always displayed an ability more than
adequate for all he undertook. As a phy-
sician he effected some remarkable cures,
and he had the affection, as well as the con-
fidence, of his numerous patients.

HAMILL, Edward Holman, M.D.,

Soldier, Physician, Poet.

Dr. Edward Holman Hamill was born in
the parsonage of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South at Talladega, Alabama, Octo-
ber 25, 1843. He was the son of Rev. Ed-
ward Joseph Hamill, an eminent clergyman
of the South, and Anne J. Simmons, daugh-
ter of Colonel Simmons, of Georgia.

At the age of twelve he chose as his life
work the profession in which afterwards
he became distinguished. He was prepared
for college at the John's Academy. Tus-
kegee, and at Professor Slaton's Academy,
Auburn, Alabama, and entered East Ala-
bama College, which has since become the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute. The out-
break of the Civil War interrupted his col-
legiate course, and he entered the Confed-
erate army in 1861. He continued in the
service with credit to himself and the State
until the close of the strife. He was first
appointed regimental quartermaster-ser-
geant and later became a first lieutenant.
He was present in all the important battles
of the West under the command of Genei-
als Johnson. Bragg and Hood.

At the close of his military career in
1865 he began the study of medicine with
Drs. Reed and Drake, of Auburn, Alabama.
He entered the medical department of the

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University of New York, from which he
graduated in 1868 with the first honors of
his class. His thesis on "The Practise of
Medicine in Renal Urinalysis and Renal
Pathology" elicited high commendation by
the profession. He practiced medicine on
Long Island, New York, until 1876, when
he moved to Jacksonville, Illinois, and con-
tinued his practice there. In the year 1886
he accepted the position of assistant medi-
cal director in the Prudential Life Insur-
ance Company, Newark, New Jersey, and
subsequently became the chief medical di-
rector.

The Doctor was a man of impressive per-
sonality, strong mentality and inflexible
purpose. He was in active sympathy with
every movement in the community which
made for righteousness. He was an effec-
tive public speaker, a wise counselor, and
a man of commanding influence not only
within the circle of his profession but also
in the Church and State. He was liberal
in his judgment of men. but exacted the
most open sincerity. His benefactions were
as large as his modesty which concealed
them from public applause. His personal
endowments commanded attention and
many important interests were entrusted to
his care, all of which he handled with fi-
delity and ability.

He was an ardent Master Mason, and
was connected with South Side Lodge.
New York ; St. John's. Newark, New Jer-
sey ; the Mystic Shrine and Mecca Temple
of New York. He was a member of sev-
eral medical associations in New York, Illi-
nois and New Jersey. For two years he
was president of the Suffolk County Medi-
cal Association, New York. He was also
president (1902-1904) of the Association
of Life Insurance Directors of the L^nited
States and Canada. He was an active mem-
ber of the Microscopical Society of Essex
county, New Jersey ; the Practitioners'
Club, the Roseville Athletic Association,
and the Lincoln Club, of Newark, New Jer-
sey. His published articles were on med-
ical matters relating to life insurance. He

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occasionally wrote some exquisite verses
which his friends highly prize because they
emit the fragrance of his inner life which
captivated the hearts of all who were ad-
mitted in the sacred circle of his personal
friendships.

Dr. Hamill was married, October 25,
1870, at Bay Shore, New York, to Miss
Emma Josephine, daughter of Seth Rogers
and Eliza Wicks (Hawkins) Clock. They
had but one child, a son of brilliant promise
who was born October 25, 1875, and sud-
denly passed away August 5, 1890.

The Doctor was for many years connect-
ed with the Methodist Episcopal Church, in
which he held responsible official position
and was especially active in Sunday school
work. During the last few years of his
life his health was seriously impaired and
Tie moved to the borough of Chatham, New
Jersey, where he erected a beautiful home
overlooking the green hills, symbols of the
Everlasting, which he dearly loved. At
Chatham he connected himself with the
Congregational Church which stood on the
elevation near his residence, and was a reg-
ular worshipper there when his physical
condition permitted.

Though fully aware of the hopeless char-
acter of his ailment, he was never despond-
ent, always living in the cheer of a prospec-
tive long life. "How," said he, "can one
who is deathless contemplate with dread
what men call death, which really is only
a step onward in our continuous life?" For
many months he combatted his disease with
a physician's skill and a hero's courage, but
succumbed at last on the night of October
29, 1910, when he calmly bade adieu to his
beloved wife and fell asleep, confidently ex-
pecting the dawn of the Eternal Day.

CREVELING, Augustus,

Progressive Business Man.

One of the most energetic and progres-

late Augustus Creveling, whose broad
views, sound judgment and remarkable ex-
ecutive ability, had gained for him a prom-
inent position in the business world. He
was the son of A. W. and Adelaide (Bau-
din) Creveling, and was born in Washing-
ton, Warren county, New Jersey, in 1852,
his death occurring in Jersey City, in 1898.
Mr. Creveling received an excellent prep-
atory education at various boarding schools,
continued this at La Fayette College, and
it was completed by a business course in
the City of New York. He then engaged
in the mercantile business in association
with his father, and subsequently came to
New York City, where he associated him-
self in a partnership with William A.
White & Son, real estate brokers, and was
successfully identified with this firm until
his death. In 1884 he removed to Jersey
City, and that place was his residence from
that time. He married Anna M. Ellison,
a daughter of Rev. Michael E. Ellison, of
whom further. Both he and his wife were
members of the Park Reformed Church,
of Jersey City, of which the Rev. Suydam,
D.D., was the pastor for many years. Mr.
Creveling was a member of the official
board of the church, and was an ac-
tive worker in all matters connected with
the welfare of the church. In politi-
cal matters he was an ardent Republican,
but never cared to hold public office. His
fraternal affiliation was with the Cosmos
Club, the Royal Arcanum and the Order of
Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Creveling
was of a very philanthropic nature, and do-
nated generously to all worthy institutions.

ELLISON, Rev. Michael Earle,

Prominent Theologian and Preacher.

Rev. Michael Earle Ellison, third son of
Lewis and Mary Ellison, was born April
i, 1818, near Burlington, New Jersey, and
in early childhood removed to Summit

sive business men of Jersey City, New Jer- Bridge, Delaware, with his parents. His
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Pennington Seminary, as one of its first
students. He manifested a love of knowl-
edge and ardor in its pursuit, which with
more than ordinary energy and self reliance
contributed much to his development. He
possessed a well stored mind, and could
command its resources with great facility.
He entered the New Jersey Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1842.
Mr. Ellison, as a theologian, was eminently
sound and Biblical ; as a preacher, earnest,
and evangelical ; he had a fine presence, and
a voice of rare richness and compass ; his
manner was dignified, affectionate and im-
pressive ; his preaching was of the per-
suasive power of living words, from the
heart to the heart.

When the Newark Conference was form-
ed in 1858. he was elected its secretary
and served with great efficiency until 1870
when he was appointed presiding elder of
the Morristown District. His other ap-
pointments were Parsippany Circuit, Dover,
Orange, Haverstraw, New York, New
Brunswick, Hoboken twice, Paterson,
Staten Island, Morristown, St. Paul's, New-
ark, Clinton Street, Newark, St. Paul's,
Jersey City, Simpson, Jersey City, Wash-
ington, Madison, while at the time of his
death — he was presiding elder of Jersey
City District. He was a faithful friend,
a tender husband and father, — a noble
Christian man. He was married in 1844 to
Ann Whittaker, only daughter of John
Whittaker, of Trenton, New Jersey. Two
sons and a daughter were born to them.

CAMPBELL, Edward Stelle,

Financier. Leader in Community Affairs.

The entire active career of Edward Stelle
Campbell, late president of the National
Newark Banking Company, of Newark,
New Jersey, \vas distinguished by excep-
tional business ability and sagacity. To his
remarkably wise and intelligent direction
was mainly due much of the success achiev-
ed by that institution. He ever took a keen

personal interest in all of its operations,
guiding its policies and gaining their ac-
complishment with shrewd unerring skill.

Mr. Campbell was born in New Bruns-
wick, New Jersey, January 8, 1854. He
was the son of David Freeman and Susan
Runyon ( Stelle ) Campbell, and was de-
scended from the famous Runyon family of
revolutionary fame, the ancestors of both
having come to this country about 1680,
from Scotland and France respectively.

Mr. Campbell attended the public schools
of New Brunswick, being graduated from
the high school in 1868. Two years later
he found employment in the National Bank
of New Jersey, in New Brunswick. Four-
teen years were spent in this institution,
where his reliable performance of the duties
assigned him, and his systematic methods
secured him advancement and, after having
shown exceptional executive ability during
a very trying period, he was advanced to
the post of cashier, which position he capa-
bly filled until 1894, at which time he was
advanced to the vice-presidency of the in-
stitution. This honor came to him unso-
licited, and was a spontaneous tribute to
his ability and a compliment as highly ap-
preciated as it was unexpected.

The National Newark Banking Corpora-
tion is the oldest banking organization in
the State of New Jersey, being founded in
1804 by some of Newark's most representa-
tive citizens for the purpose of doing a
general banking and insurance business, but
the insurance interests were abandoned
many years ago. The Newark City Na-
tional Bank, which was fifty years old in
1902. was in May of that year merged
with the National Newark Banking Corpor-
ation, and the capital stock was increased
to $1.000,000. This great financial institu-
tion at the present time has a surplus and
undivided profits of far more than that
amount, and its depositors number about
four thousand. Under the presidency of
Mr. Campbell the policy of the institution
has been progressive yet conservative. Es-

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pecial attention was given to the accounts
of the smaller depositors, and no banking
house enjoyed greater popularity.

As receiver of the Middlesex County
Bank at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, which
had been ruined by its cashier, Mr. Camp-
bell achieved one of his most noted tii-
umphs and demonstrated his unusual exe-
cutive ability. The claims allowed amount-
ed to $508,000, with offsets of $49,000, and
in March, 1900, Mr. Campbell, who had
been appointed as permanent receiver by
Vice-Chancellor Pitney, paid a dividend of
thirty-five per cent., and in July, 1902, a
supplementary dividend of fifteen per cent.,
was paid. By the beginning of 1904 the
entire difficulties were practically settled,
with the exception of a few outstanding
cases which would undoubtedly be settled
in favor of the institution, and leave a bal-
ance in its favor. When Mr. Campbell ap-
plied for an increased allowance in this re-
ceivership. Vice-Chancellor Pitney, in an
oral opinion sustaining this application said
in part : "Throughout the entire case I can-
not find that Mr. Campbell has made a
single mistake or has been the least bit slack-
in his duties, or that he has shown the least
deficiency of talent. In all respects he has
been a model receiver." Such an unsolici-
ted tribute from the Bench was most cer-
tainly a compliment to be highly valued and
appreciated.

In 1897 Mr. Campbell was a member of
the Indianapolis National Monetary Con-
ference, which exerted such an important
influence on the character of the legislation
in Congress on the subject in that year. He
was president of the Board of Trade of
Newark, having been unanimously elected
in January, 1903. and his natural aptitude
for handling vast interests was again shown
in this office. The commerce of Newark
and the adjoining tide-water towns was re-
markably benefited by the measures taken
by Mr. Campbell and the members of the
committee of which he was the leading spir-

it. He was connected with a number of or-
ganizations.

Mr. Campbell was married in 1877 to
Elizabeth Mundy, daughter of David Ed-
ward and Jane Elizabeth Meeker, of Brook-
lyn, New York, where Mr. Meeker was a
prominent lawyer until his death in No-
vember, 1889.

Mr. Campbell died at Lake George, New
York, July 2, 1905. Public expressions of
sorrow were many and fervent, and the
press all over the country gave an unusual
amount of space to historical and editorial
notices of the sad event. The character of
the man is exemplified in the resolutions
adopted by the various corporations and
other bodies with which he was connected,
a few of which are appended.

By the Board of Trade :

"Resolved : That the members of this board
have learned with sorrow of the sudden death of
Edward S. Campbell, one of the most respected
and influential members of this body, and form-
erly its presiding officer. Coming to us from a
neighboring city he soon impressed himself upon
our business community and became a leader in
financial affairs. Frank, courteous, forceful, he
won the confidence and respect of all those with
whom he was associated. He took a deep inter-
est in the affairs of this board, and by his death
we have lost one of our most efficient members
and one of our wisest counselors.

"Resolved : That a committee be appointed by
the chairman to prepare a suitable minute to be
entered upon the records of this board expres-
sive of our sorrow and regret at his untimely
death.

"Resolved : That 3 copy of these resolutions be
sent by the secretary of this board to the widow
of our deceased brother, to whom we respect-
fully tender our sympathy in her bereavement.'

By the Board of Directors of the Nation-
al Newark Banking Company :

"This Board wishes to record on its minutes
its sense of loss in the death of Edward S. Camp-
bell, president of this bank, which occurred at
Lake George, New York, on the 2nd inst., after
a brief illness. Mr. Campbell was elected a mem-
ber of this board, and vice-president of this
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with the Newark City National Bank in May,
1902, he became president of the enlarged insti-
tution. He came to the service of this 'uank
fully equipped by a strong and active youth as a
banker, and qualified by a natural disposition
and a finely developed character, he at once im-
preSM-d his personality upon not only the direc-
tors, but on the customers of the bank and the
c< immunity at large. Few men have, in the short
time of his connection with Newark affairs,
gained a more enviable position or implanted
themselves more firmly than he did in all that is
best in business, in civic and in religious matters.
His death deprives many interests of a potent
factor for good, and his associates and friends of
,i Mrong and loving character. We wish to con-
vey to his bereaved wife our most tender condo-
lences, and direct that a copy of this minute be
engrossed and sent to her, and that it be entered
upon the records of this bank and published in
the daily papers of Newark."

By the Executive Committee of the New
Jersey Bankers' Association :

"Whereas, it has pleased Almighty God in His
infinite wisdom to remove from us by death our
esteemed president and friend, Edward S. Camp-
bell, who not only served this association ably
and faithfully as president but also assisted ma-
terially in its organization : be it

"Resolved. That in the death of Mr. Campbell
we have lost a most able executive, a genial and
true friend and one who was held in the highest
esteem by us all. We desire to permanently re-
cord our appreciation of his most estimable char-
acter, sterling worth, vigorous and attractive per-
sonality.

"Resolved, That we extend to his bereaved
family our most sincere sympathy in this hour
of great bereavement.

"Resolved. That a copy of these preamble and
resolutions be suitably engrossed and presented
to Mrs. Campbell."

By the Board of Managers of the How-
ard Savings Institution :

"The managers of the Howard Savings Insti-
tution desire to express their sense of loss in the
death of Edward S. Campbell, and to record this
tribute to his memory. Mr. Campbell was elected
a member of this board on August 29, 1904, ap-
pointed soon after a member of the auditing
committee, and has attended to his duties prompt-
ly and regularly since that time. He was a genial
associate, and a man who, by reason of his abil-
ity and character, added strength to the board
and rendered efficient service to the institution.

He was a public-spirited citizen and a Christian
of the highest character, and his belief was ex-
emplified by his daily life. In his sudden death
the institution suffers a loss which can best be ap-
preciated by those in the management of finan-
cial institutions who know the value of thought-
ful and wise counsellors from the ranks of suc-
cessful and self-reliant business men. We offer
our sincere sympathy to his wife and rejoice with
her in the memory of a life so well spent.

"Resolved, That this minute be spread upon
the records of the institution and that an en-
grossed copy be furnished his bereaved family."

Mr. Campbell was an active and influen-
tial figure in the life of the community, es-
pecially in connection with those institu-
tions most closely affecting its moral wel-
fare. He was particularly interested in the
Young Men's Christian Association, of
Newark, was exceedingly liberal in its sup-
port, and his personal influence was a con-
tinual inspiration to it in its beneficent
work. He was also a member of the New
Brunswick Association, having been its
treasurer for eight years, and its president
for three years. He was also a member of
the Essex Club of Newark. His death
while he was yet in the prime of his menial
powers left a void not to be filled, but the
example of his life remains as a tender
memory, and a life-long inspiration to all
with whom he associated.

PHILLIPS, Franklin,

Engineer, Enterprising Citizen.

Splendid in physique, with a stature that
showed both vigor and strength, unusually
handsome, most courtly in manner, and al-
ways immaculate in dress. Franklin Phillips
was a man who everywhere attracted in-
stant attention. But these were externals
and do not explain the love for him which
men by the hundreds freely expressed by
word and written page, nor why in throngs
men high and influential came to pay the
last tribute to him. That explanation is
found in his beauty of character, his loyal-
ty and love for family and home, his de-
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ficiency, his truth, courage, tactful sym-
pathy, his deep sense of right and of jus-
tice, his broad human sympathy that em-
braced all God's creatures, and his high
sense of personal, professional and business
honor. These were the qualities that drew
and held men to him as with bands of steel.
Franklin Phillips was born in Newark,
New Jersey, January 9, 1857, son of the
late John Morris Phillips, one of Newark's
leading "Captains of Industry" of a gener-
ation ago. He prepared at Newark
Academy, then entered the School of Me-
chanical Arts, Cornell University, whence
he was graduated with the class of 1878.
At the University he took an active part in
athletics, particularly rowing, a sport for
which he retained his love all through lite.
He was a member of the fraternity Zeta
Psi. and in all the requirements of univer-
sity life fully met all social and scholar-
ly tests. After completing his technical
course at Cornell, Mr. Phillips returned to
Newark and at once became an active mem-
ber of the Hewes & Phillips Iron Works,
founded by his father, and later of the cor-
poration of which he became president and
general manager. The firm's specialty,
steam engines for varied purposes, gave
him ample scope to expand, and he became
known in the mechanical world as a steam,
hydraulic and mechanical engineer of ex-
traordinary ability and resourcefulness. His
reputation outgrew local bounds, and as
consulting engineer he was called upon for
advice by men eminent in their profession,
dealing with engineering problems of great-
est magnitude. In his private business and
professional work he was an unqualified
success, but had this been his only claim to
public favor, his life would not have been
the useful one it was.

He was intensely public-spirited, and this
led him into every department of city life,
educational, religious, military, social and
fraternal. While fully alive to his respon-
sibilities as a citizen, and working shoulder
to shoulder with those men striving for bet-

ter municipal condition--, and an ank-nt
soldier of the "Common ( iood," In- nr\ii
sought, doired nor accepted public office or
personal preferment. He \va> for many
years a trustee of the Newark Technical
School, contributing materially to the ;ul-
vancement of that useful institution ; serv-
ed mi important committees of the Newark
Board of Trade; was president of tin
Foundrymen's Association of New Jersey ;
and was a member of the American Soci-
ety of Mechanical Engineers.

In matters religious he took a deep in-
terest. He belonged to the Park Presbyter-
ian Church, and was earnestly interested in
the Young Men's Christian Association.
In both he preached by precept and ex-
ample a virile Christianity that encouraged
young men to raise themselves to higher
levels of morality. In politics he was a Re-
publican, and an ardent champion of civic
righteousness. In the almost forgotten
days when the Passaic river was a joy and
a delight to all lovers of aquatics, he was
an enthusiastic member of the Triton Boat
Club, and in this connection he acquired a
high reputation, being the winner of many
races, requiring both skill and practice. His
social club was the Essex. Other interest-
ing traits in his character were his fondness
for animals, especially horses and dogs,
and his love of reading.

His connection with the New Jersey
National Guard began in 1890 when he as-
sisted in the organization of the Essex
Troop, now the First Squadron of Cavalry
of the Guard. He became quartermaster
of the troop, later resigning to accept the
rank of major of the Second Regiment. He
was one of the most expert rifle and pistol
shots in the State, a fact that was recogniz-
ed by his appointment as state inspector of
small arms and rifle practice, and for years
he was attached to the regimental and brig-
ade staff of Major General Collins.

Major Phillips married Alice L., daugh-
ter of Isaac and Emma (Lukens) Hall, of
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children : Marguerita and Frederick Mor-
ris.

The announcement of the death of
Franklin Phillips, which occurred at his
residence, No. 539 Mt. Prospect avenue,
Newark, New Jersey, February 9, 1914,
was a shock to his hundreds of friends, and
to those who, at some time throughout his
busy, useful life, had come under the
charm of his rare and winning personal-
ity. Over four hundred letters of condol-
ence and sympathy were received by Mrs.
Phillips, from which a few extracts may
be given :

From Major General Collins :

"My personal feelings for him were of fond
attachment, for I had learned to esteem him
highly as a man and comrade. Modest and un-
assuming, yet withal capable and efficient, he could
always be relied upon to make good in any duty
assigned him. ... I want you to know that
his Commander and Comrade, and speaking for
the staff of the Old Brigade, that we all loved
him for his manly soldierly qualities."

From Richard Wayne Parker :

"I do not know how to tell you of my grief at
the death of your husband, my old and valued
friend. His character was almost unique for its
union of gentleness, loyalty, truth, courage, abil-
ity, and that tactful sympathy which so endeared
him to us all, and that made intercourse with him
a revelation of a better world where we shall all
meet again."

From resolutions passed by the Fore.-t
Hill Literary Society :

"He was always an interested member, ready
to do his share for the profit and enjoyment of
all and one devoted to the welfare and advance-
ment of the Society. . . . We appreciate and
shall long remember his active interest in all
movements for the betterment and upbuilding of
his native city. His suggestions and efforts in
all civic matters were ever valuable, construc-
tive and far-reaching in effect. While we recog-
nize his worth as a member of this Society, as 2
professional and business man and as a citizen,
we still more respect and honor his character as
a good man. His personal honor was unimpeach-
able, his sense of right and of justice keen, his
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humane and broad, his principles of conduct and
of life rock-ribbed as the Eternal hills."

From his brethren of the Cornell Chap-
ter of Zeta Psi, published in their official
organ, "The Circle of Zeta Psi," April
1914:

"Although distinguished for his great profes-
sional abilities, Brother Phillips will forever be
best remembered by those who were so fortunate
as to enjoy his acquaintance, for his purely per-
sonal qualities. He was truly noble in character
and in bearing. Strong and gentle, brave and
modest, firm and sweet, his place was rooted deep
in the affection of his friends. ... By his
sound judgment and his constant readiness to
•assist, many of his associates came to depend up-
on him and to them his loss must appear irrepar-
able."

The predominating note in these evi-
dences of respect is his devotion to duty, a
trait most marked, whether he was called
upon to deal with a refractory engine, or
marshal a parade of thousands of men.

CROSS, Joseph,

Lawyer, Jurist, Legislator,

The late Judge Cross was a man whose
character and ability would have made him
eminent in any profession or calling. Edu-
cated in Princeton College, prepared for
the law in association with men of mark in
the profession, his training enabled him to
use his moral and intellectual equipment to
the honor of his chosen profession and for
the service of men. As a lawyer he brought
to his work a zeal for the truth and an
industry that knew no fatigue. His work
as a legislator was characterized by faith-
fulness and fearless opposition to the
wrong. His career culminated in his ser-
vice as United States District Judge, where
for eight years he gave to his work the
fruits of his rich experience and ripe study
with such patience and even judgment that
his decisions were received with confidence
and approval.

Joseph Cross was born near Morristown.

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New Jersey, December 29, 1843, the son °f
William and Sarah M. (Lee) Cross. He
obtained his early education in the local
schools and prepared for college at Pearl
Cottage Seminary, Elizabeth, New Jersey,
of which Rev. David H. Pierson was prin-
cipal. In 1861 he entered Princeton Col-
lege, from which he graduated in the class
of 1865. Immediately thereafter he began
the study of law in the office of William
J. Magie, of Elizabeth, (later Chancellor of
New Jersey), and also attended a course of
lectures at Columbia College Law School,
New York City. He was admitted to prac-
tice in New Jersey as an attorney in June,
1868, and as a counsellor in November.
1871. Upon his admission to the bar he
was taken into partnership by his former
preceptor under the firm name of Magie
& Cross. They practiced together until
1880, when Mr. Magie was appointed one
of the Justices of the Supreme Court. In
January, 1884, a partnership was formed
with Louis H. Noe, under the firm name
of Cross & Noe, of Elizabeth.

In 1888 Mr. Cross was appointed Judge
of the District Court of the City of Eliza-
beth, but. in common with all the other dis-
trict court judges of the State, was legis-
lated out of office in April. 1891. He was
elected a member of the Assembly from
Union county in the fall of 1893. and on
May 26, 1894 was chosen speaker of the
House to succeed Mr. Holt, resigned. In
1895 he was re-elected speaker. He was
elected State Senator in November, 1898.
to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of
Foster M. Voorhees, who had been nomi-
nated for the governorship. In 1899 he
was re-elected as State Senator, and in
1902 was again re-elected, and served as
president of the Senate during the session
of 1905, with marked ability. Judge Cross
entered politics reluctantly and only after
he was persuaded by the earnest solicita-
tion of good citizens, regardless of party,
who knew the character and ability of the
man and felt that the State needed his ser-

vices and politics the moral uplift of I.is
example. He became speaker of the Hou-e
by the unanimous vote of his party col-
leagues, and president of the Senate as
much by virtue of his personal integrity a-;
through party usage. "He entered politics
every whit clean ; he retired from it without
spot or blemish and only the more sincerely
esteemed because he had proved that a man
of fixed principles may serve the State and
his constituents and remain a conspicuous
example of the best citizenship." His leg-
islative career was brought to a close by
his appointment, by President Roosevelt, in
April. 1905, to the high place of Judge of
the United States Court for the District
of New Jersey. Deeply versed in the law,
and possessing a genuine judicial tempera-
ment, the position was most congenial, not-
withstanding the close application and se-
vere labor it imposed upon him. He served
with signal honor to himself and with stead-
fast loyalty to his lofty professional and
moral ideals, and continued in his arduous
duties practically to the time of his death.

Judge Cross had been a resident of Eliz-
abeth, New Jersey, since 1858, and w;n
prominently identified with the affairs of
his home city. He was a member of the
Westminster Presbyterian Church, serving
it as deacon, Sunday school superintendent
and elder. He was a trustee of Princeton
Theological Seminary for several years. He
married, October 19, 1870. Mary Prich-
ard Whiting, daughter of Albertus D., and
Catherine DeWitt Whiting.

The death of Judge Cross, which occur-
red October 29, 1913. was a source of
sincere mourning throughout the commun-
ity, and the opinions expressed at that time
give excellent insight into his character and
indicate the estimation in which he was
held. "In his death the community sus-
tains the loss of a good citizen, the church
of a faithful friend, and the Bench and Bar
of a fearless and distinguished Judge."
man of marked honesty and uprightness, a
judge of great ability, an excellent lawyer

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of high standing in his profession, a man
of broad mind and fine character." There
can be no more fitting close to this short
review than the tribute paid editorially by
the "Elizabeth Daily Journal," which said
in part : —

"Through the death of Judge Joseph Cross,
Elizabeth and the State as a whole, lose one of
their best-known and respected citizens. His life
may be said to have been dedicated to public ser-
vice. His early political activities testify to the
esteem in which he was held by his fellow citi-
zens and by those associated with him in the busi-
ness of law making. New Jersey is much in-
debted to him for the quality of the service he
rendered in the fields of politics and public af-
fairs. He had the traits of a judge. He was
clear sighted, well balanced and able. His inter-
est in his work was most conscientious and un-
flagging. He was a man of many kindnesses. He
was quick to appreciate opportunities for useful-
ness and to recognize worth in others. His suc-
cess was well merited and widely recognized.
Judge Cross was a type of man who, through
his good citizenship and staunch Americanism,
through the quality of his private life and the
worth of his public service, set the State an ex-
ample. His influence will continue to be felt
among us."

ACTON, Jonathan Woodnutt,

Lawyer, Public Official.

The American line of descent to Jona-
than W. Acton, of Salem, began with Ben-
jamin Acton, one of the prominent young
men of the Fenwick Colony, who is believ-
ed to have arrived on the ship "Kent" from
London, landing at New Salem, June 23,
1677. He was a surveyor, also a tanner
and currier. He owned land in Salem
bought of John Fenwick, was the first re-
corder of the newly incorporated town of
Salem, laid out roads, did a large amount
of surveying for private owners and for the
heirs of William Penn, and in 1729 signed
a report of an extensive survey "Benjamin
Acton, surveyor of Fenwick Colony and
Salem Tenth." He built a brick house in
1727 on his tract on Fenwick street, now
East Broadway, Salem, and there resided

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until death. He was a member of the So-
ciety of Friends and is prominently men-
tioned in Society affairs as early as 1682.
He was married in 1688, his wife Christina
bearing him sons and daughters.

Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin and
Christina Acton, was born in 1695, and suc-
ceeded his father in the tanning business.
He inherited the tanyard and homestead,
building another and larger residence on
the original tract. He married, in 1727,
Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Hill.

John, son of Benjamin (2) and Eliza-
beth Acton, was born August 31, 1729, and
succeeded his father in the tanning busi-
ness. He married (second) Mary, grand-
daughter of Charles Oakford and daughter
of John Oakford, of Alloway's Creek town-
ship.

Samuel, son of John Acton and his sec-
ond wife, Mary Oakford, was born No-
vember 10, 1764, died in Haddonfield, New
Jersey, in 1801. He learned the tanner's
trade under his father, but soon abandoned
it in favor of mercantile life, conducting
a store in Salem in partnership with his
half brother, Clement Acton. Later he
withdrew from the firm and purchased a
tannery at Haddonfield, where he resided
until his death. He married Sarah Hall,
born in 1768, died in 1852, daughter of
William and Sarah (Brinton) Hall.

Isaac Oakford. youngest son of Samuel
and Sarah (Hall) Acton, was born about
1800. He abjured the family business, tan-
ning, and learned the blacksmith's trade in
Pennsylvania, after becoming of legal age
opening a shop in Salem on Griffith street.
He was a successful business man and in
later life kept an iron and hardware stoie
in a large three-story brick building which
he erected for store and dwelling. Subse-
quently he erected a large iron foundry on
West Griffith street, the site being part of
the Nicholson lot belonging to Salem
Monthly Meeting of Friends. He continued
in business until his death, one of the lead-
ing men of his day and region. H(e married

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Lucy Ann, daughter of Jonathan and
Temperance Bilderback, of Manningtcn
township, Salem county.

Captain Edward A. Acton, eldest son of
Isaac Oakford and Lucy Ann (Bilderback)
Acton, was killed in battle, August 29,
1862. He was a captain of the Fifth Reg-
iment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, was
wounded at Williamsburg, and met his
death while leading his company at the sec-
ond battle of Bull Run. He married Maiy,
daughter of Jonathan and Mary Woodnutt,
a descendant of Richard Woodnutt, who
came from England, a member of the So-
ciety of Friends who settled within the lim-
its of Salem Meeting soon after the advent
of John Fenwick, with his wife, Mary (be-
lieved to have been Mary Pledger). The
line of descent to Mary (Woodnutt) Acton
is through the eldest son of the emigrant,
Joseph Woodnutt and Rachel Craven, his
wife; their son, Richard Woodnutt and his
wife, a Miss Walmsley ; their son, Jona-
than Woodnutt, and Sarah Mason, his wife ;
their son, James Mason Woodnutt, and his
wife, Margaret Carpenter; their son, Jona-
athan Woodnutt, and his wife, Mary Good-
win ; their daughter. Mary Woodnutt mar-
ried Captain Edward A. Acton. Children :
Walter W., Isaac Oakford, and Jonathan
W.. of further mention.

Jonathan Woodnutt Acton, youngest son
of Captain Edward A. and Mary E.
(Woodnutt) Acton, was born in Salem,
November 8, 1857, died in his native city,
May 6, 1907. "Salem has had many sons
who left their impress on her history, but
among them all there was none who seived
more faithfully and none who shone bright-
er in her business, professional, or social
life than Jonathan W. Acton." He was ed-
ucated in the Friends Academy and the high
school at Salem, then for three years attend-
ing the United States Military Academy
at \Vest Point, made a student in that in-
stitution by appointment of Congressman
Clement H. Sinnickson. LTpon his return
to Salem he read law with Albert H. Slape,

successfully took his legal examinations,
and \va.s admitted to the New Jersey bar as
attorney in 1884, becoming a counsellor in
1887. Until 1890 he pursued general prac-
tice in Salem, when by appointment of
Governor Leon Abbett he became Prosecu-
tor of the Pleas for Salem county, being
rcappointed in 1895, his entire service in
this capacity covering a period of ten yeais.
In 1900 Mr. Acton resumed private prac-
tice, and so continued with brilliant success
until his death, most successful as an advo-
cate, and winning a very large proportion
of his cases. He was thorough in the prep-
aration of his argument, in procedure free
from the slightest suggestion of subterfuge,
and in himself the soul of honor, depending
entirely upon the proven facts in his case
and their earnest, eloquent presentation io
convince judges and juries. He loved his
profession, but responsibilities as a citizen
were equally binding upon him, and for
twelve years he was chief executive of his
native city, 1885 to 1897. He was re-eltct-
ed for a fifth term, (an honor conferred
upon no other man in the history of the
city), but it was discovered that he could
not legally hold the mayor's office and also
the county office of Prosecutor of the Pleas,
therefore he refused to qualify for his fifth
term, its council electing his successor. He
also served a term as member of the Board
of Education (1901).

As executive he was careful, but pro-
gressive, his official career being one that in-
spired public confidence. As prosecutor he
performed the duties of that often unpleas-
ant position without shrinking and with un-
faltering courage, ever placing duty and the
right above personal consideration. A; a
lawyer he grew constantly in public favor,
.his services as an advocate and counsellor
being in continuous demand, and he appear-
ed in many important cases in Salem and
adjacent counties. In the social and fra-
ternal life of his city no one was more pop-
ular or welcome. He was a past master of
Excelsior Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma-

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sons, of Salem, was active in the organiza-
tion of the Country Club, and until his
death was continuously a member of the
board of governors. He was an ardent
Democrat, loved the traditions and firmly
believed in the principles of his party. He
was an efficient party worker and leader,
his opinion and advice carrying great
weight in political councils. He was, by
family ties, a Friend, but his birthright
was lost when his father married outside
the Society. He was a Friend at heart, his
honorable, upright nature responding to the
simple, Christ-like faith of that sect.

While this review of the life work of cne
of Salem's honored dead must of necessity
omit much that was useful to his fellows, it
fully shows that in whatever position Mr.
Acton was placed he met every demand
made upon him with the complete measure
of his ability, and no duty was left unper-
formed, whatever the influence that at-
tempted to swerve him from its just dis-
charge. He was an incorruptible executive,
a relentless prosecutor, and the open foe
of wrongdoers, but possessed the gentlest
of natures, a warm, ready sympathy, and
a heart that always responded to the needs
of friends or unfortunates. He was univer-
sally loved and respected, and years must
elapse before another can completely fill
the void caused by his death. Salem uni-
versally mourned his death, the most per-
fect public testimonial being tendered his
memory by Judge Clement H. Sinnickson,
judge of the courts, and by the members
of the Salem County Bar. when at open
court session (May 20, 1907) the Judge
praised Mr. Acton's legal ability, his elo-
quence as an advocate, his ingrained hones-
ty, his moral and physical courage, and
made reference to his magnetic personality.
After others had, with touching earnestness
and sincerity, borne witness to his worth as
a man and friend, the following resolution
was read, adopted, and entered upon the
court minutes :

"The members of the Bar of Salem County de-
sire to express their sorrow for the untimely
death of one of their fellow members, Jonathan
Woodnutt Acton, for more than twenty years a
prominent and successful and useful lawyer but
one who has been taken away from among us in
what we might well have hoped was the very
prime of his life.

"Mr. Acton was born in Salem and had lived
here during the almost fifty years of his life,
and we who were his professional associates and
knew him well are glad to bear testimony to our
appreciation of his steadfast integrity as a citi-
zen, his successful practice as a lawyer, and his
useful work as a public officer.

"Mr. Acton was distinctively an advocate. He
was gifted with a natural, earnest, eloquent ad-
dress that was successful with juries in a large
proportion of the cases he argued before them.
But he was growing steadily as a lawyer, in all
respects, until he was stricken with the disease
that carried him away."

The resolution closed with beautiful ex-
pressions of regret and condolence.

Jonathan Woodnutt Acton married, July
19, 1890, Frances Blackwood House, who
survives him, continuing her residence at
the home on Oak street, Salem, that she en-
tered as a bride. She and her children are
members of the St. John's Episcopal
Church. Children : Frances Newlin, born
June 14, 1891, now a student in the law
department of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, class of 1916; Mary, born January
2, 1893, married Pierce Alridge Ham-
mond, a druggist of West Chester, Pennsyl-
vania, and has a son, Pierce Alridge (2),
born in September, 1914: Jonathan Wood-
mitt, born July 23, 1894, also a law student
at the University of Pennsylvania, class of
1917; Conrad Berens, born September 6,
1902 : Margaret Carpenter, born December

23- 1903-

(The House Line.)

This family name is a contraction of the
form "Houseman," and was established in
Salem by Jacob House, who came to this
city an expert glass blower, a calling he
followed for many years in a factory built
by Mr. Wistar. He was also a farmer, and

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served in the Revolutionary army with his
brother, Jonathan. He married Mary,
daughter of William Oakford, who owned
a large tract of land in Alloway township,
and granddaughter of Wade Oakford, the
emigrant. Jacob and Mary (Oakford)
House had children, Anna, Margaret, and
William.

William, son of Jacob House, was born
January 27, 1771, and died in 1802. He
was a farmer and large land owner, his
possessions ranging between two and three
thousand acres, situated in Upper Alloway
Creek township. He was honored by his
fellows to election to many local offices,
and during his lifetime held important place
in the public service. He married Sarah
Wood, and had two children.

Jonathan, son of William and Sarah
(Wood) House, was born September 25,
1798. Left an orphan at the age of four
years he grew to manhood under the care
of an uncle, in mature years engaging in
farming and the operation of a saw mill.
He was the builder of a number of ships,
and owned the large farm upon which he
died. His political beliefs were strongly
Democratic, and he was a member of the
township committee. Appointed a lay judge
of Salem county, he achieved a creditable
record in that high position, his service
marked by faithfulness and ability. His
home life was his greatest joy, and in the
companionship of his family he found his
one relaxation from business cares and pub-
lic burdens. He was an earnest, devout
Christian, and held the regard and admir-
ation of his fellows. Jonathan House mar-
ried Frances Blackwood, and had three sons
and two daughters.

Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan and
Frances (Blackwood) House, was born in
Alloway, New Jersey, May 10, 1843, *ne
home of his birth the brick house built by
the founder of the family, Jacob House,
his great-grandfather. As a youth he at-
tended the public schools of Alloway town-
ship and Eldridge Hill, afterward a private

school in Shiloh, and when nineteen years
of age discontinued his studies to take up
duties on the homestead, which he culti-
vated during his active years. He was at
one time a member of the Home Guard,
formed during the Civil War period, and
fraternizes with the Independent Order oi
Odd Fellows. He is a staunch Democrat
Jonathan House (2) married, Novembei
22, 1864, Elmina Ayres, born in 1844, died
August 10, 1899, daughter of Elmer and
Clemence (Payne) Ayres, her father a son
of Ezekiel and Margaret Ayres. Children :
George ; and Frances Blackwood, of previ-
ous mention, who married Jonathan Wood-
nutt Acton.

ATWATER, Judge Edward Sanford,

Lawyer, Jurist, Philanthropist.

The legal profession numbers among its
members men of high distinction, scholarly
attainments, and wide experience, and
prominent among these was the late Judge
Edward Sanford Atwater, of Elizabeth,
New Jersey. He was a son of the Rev.
Lyman H. Atwater, D.D., LL.D., and Sus-
an Sanford Atwater. He was a descendant
of a distinguished English family, and the
American progenitor of the family was
David Atwater, who came from the county
of Kent, England, and from whom he was
descended in the eighth generation. David
Atwater was one of the original settlers
of New Haven, Connecticut, and both of
the parents of Edward Sanford Atwater
were natives of that city. His father, the
Rev. Lyman H. Atwater, was a graduate
of Yale University and the Yale Theolog-
ical Seminary, and was prominent as a cler-
gyman, instructor and writer.

Judge Edward Sanford Atwater was born
in Fairfield, Connecticut, on February 8th,
1843, and died on June 3rd, 1913, at his
home, No. 511 Westminster avenue, Eliza-
beth, New Jersey. When a young lad he
removed to Princeton, where his father was
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University. His earlier education was ac-
quired in Princeton Preparatory School,
after which he matriculated at Princeton
University, from which he was graduated
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the
class of 1862, and was later awarded the
degree of Master of Arts. Later he entti-
ed the Columbia University Law School,
from which he received the degree of Bach-
elor of Laws in 1866, and in the June term
of the same year was admitted to the New
Jersey bar as an attorney, and as a counsel-
lor in the year 1870. He at once estab-
lished himself in the practice of his profes-
sion in Elizabeth, with which city he was
identified until his death.

From that date until his death Judge At-
water was prominently associated with the
affairs of the city and of the State, hold-
ing many positions of trust and honor, be-
ginning with his services as a member of
the Board of Education and terminating
with his services as Judge of the Union
County Court of Common Pleas. In 1872
he was chosen as a member of the Board
of Education of the city of Elizabeth, serv-
ing in 1873 and l&74- He was unanimous-
ly elected Superintendent of Schools of
Elizabeth on May 12, 1877, and served in
that capacity until February II, 1880, when
he resigned. In 1883 he was elected a mem-
ber of the Common Council of Elizabeth
and served until 1889. He was president of
the City Council for one term, being elected
to that office January i, 1887, and serving
until December 31 of the same year. In
1880 he was appointed a member of the
State Board of Health by Governor McClel-
lan, and served a full term of six years. In
July, 1895, he was appointed City Attor-
ney of Elizabeth, and in 1896 was ap-
pointed Judge of the District Court by Gov-
ernor Griggs. In 1901 he was reappoint-
ed by Governor Voorhees, and again reap-
pointed by Governor Stokes in 1906. In
May, 1906, he was appointed Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas of Union county
to fill a vacancy, and in 1908 was reappoint-

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ed to the same office for a full term, by
Governor Fort, and served until Januaiy
6, 1913, when his impaired health made his
resignation imperative.

His interest in working out a solution for
the juvenile problem dated from the time
of his sitting as judge in the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, when many cases of juvenile de-
linquency were brought before him. In la-
ter years he gave much of his time and at-
tention to this problem, and was one of
the strongest advocates for the establish-
ment of a separate house of detention for
the youthful offenders, thus keeping them
from contact with older criminals.

In social and fraternal life, Judge At-
water was prominently identified, particu-
larly with the Sons of the American Revo-
lution, having been president of the New
Jersey State Society for four years from
1909 to 1912 inclusive. He was a member
up to the time of his death of the Eliza-
bethtown Chapter, No. i, of that society.
Among other clubs and societies with which
he was affiliated were the New Jersey State
Bar Association, the Union County Bar As-
sociation, the New Jersey Historical Soci-
ety, Princeton Club of New York, and the
Elizabeth Town and Country Club.

In church life he was prominent as a mem-
ber of the First Presbyterian Church of
Elizabeth, and was for many years a pre-
siding elder. For nearly twenty years he
was superintendent of the Sunday school.
He was charitable in the extreme, but his
charity was bestowed in an unostentatious
manner.

Judge Atwater married, in 1876, Ger-
trude Vanderpoel Oakley, daughter of Dr.
Lewis W. Oakley, of Elizabeth. They had
two children — a daughter, Henrietta Bald-
win, who married Herbert Underwood Far-
rand, and who has two children — San ford
Atwater Farrand and John Carroll Fai-
rand ; and a son, Edward Sanford Atwater
Jr., an attorney, of Elizabeth, New Jersey,
who has two sons — Edward Sanford At-
water, (3rd), and Charles Brown Atwater.

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TOWNSEND, Rev. Charles, D.D..

Prominent Clergyman, Litterateur.

There is no influence in any community
which makes a more permanent impression
than that of a beloved and revered pastor,
and one of the most beneficent of these, one
whose saintliness was admitted by all,
whether they were of his flock or not, was
the Rev. Charles Townsend, D.D., pastor
for almost twenty years of the First Pres-
byterian Church of Orange, New Jersey.
His family had been prominent in the so-
cial and civic life of Buffalo, New York,
where his grandfather, the Hon. Charles
Townsend, was one of the pioneer settlers,
later became one of the first judges in Ni-
agara county, and also rilled with ability
many other positions of honor and public
trust in the western part of the State of
New York.

The name of Townsend is a very an-
cient one, and arises from the location of the
first man who assumed it as a surname. He
evidently resided on the outskirts of some
town, and the name originally appears in
England as Atte Town's End. The family
of Townsend in England and America
traces its ancestry to Walter Atte Town-
shende, son of Sir Lodovic de Townshend,
a Norman nobleman, who came to England
soon after the Conquest. Lodovic married
Elizabeth de Hauteville, heiress of Rayn-
ham, and daughter of Sir Thomas de
Hauteville, a portion of whose property
came to the Townsend family. In 1200
we find one of the family, William Town-
send (or ad exitumville') , in Taverham,
County Norfolk. Thomas ette-Tunneshen-
de (Townsend) lived in the reign of Henry
III, 1217-72, at West Herling. William
A;te Tunesend lived in 1292; Thomas in
1714. The family became prominent in
Norfolk in the fourteenth century. The
coat-of-arms of this ancient family was a
chevron between three escallop shells.

Rev. Charles Townsend, D.D., was born
in Buffalo. New York, July 15. 1857, died

in Orange, New Jersey, December 14, 1914,
and is buried there in Rosedale Cemetery.
Having completed the courses of the ele-
mentary and high schools of his native city,
Mr. Townsend entered upon the field of
journalism, with which he was successfully
identified until he went abroad with his
parents, when he resumed his studies :n
Belgium, Switzerland and Germany.

Mr. Townsend returned to this country
after the death of his father in Germany,
and commenced the study of theology at
the Auburn Theological Seminary, from
which he was graduated with honor in the
class of 1883. He had been licensed to
preach by the Presbytery of Buffalo in
1882. The ability of Mr. Townsend had
not remained unnoted, and immediately af-
ter his graduation he was called to assume
charge of the First Presbyterian Church of
Lansingburgh, New York, and was ordain-
ed to the Christian ministry by the Presby-
tery of Troy in June, 1883. Ten years
were spent in this pastorate, during which
Rev. Townsend added greatly to his repu-
tation. The church funds had been at a
very low ebb when he took charge, and
when he left they were in a very satisfac-
tory condition, and the congregation had
greatly increased in numbers. In June,
1893, ne became pastor of the Woodland
Avenue Presbyterian Church at Cleveland,
Ohio, which was one of the largest and
most influential churches of this denomina-
tion in the country at the time. He was
installed by the Presbytery of Cleveland in
June, 1893, but in less than two years re-
signed his charge, because the delicate
health of a daughter made a residence in
Cleveland undesirable. At this time he ac-
cepted a call to the First Presbyterian
Church of Orange, New Jersey, was in-
stalled in this historic church by the Pres-
bytery of Morris and Orange in May, 1895,
and filled this charge until his death. He
was not alone popular among the members
of his congregation, but with all classes of
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ognizing not distinctions of religion when it
was a question of assisting a fellow being.
He was an eloquent and convincing preach-
er, and adhered strictly to topics connected
with religion when in the pulpit, holding
that it was no place for lectures on gener-
al subjects, however worthy their object
might be. Washington and Jefferson Col-
lege conferred upon him the degree of Doc-
tor of Divinity in June, 1903. He frequent-
ly represented the presbyteries of his con-
nection as commissioner to the General As-
sembly, and served each such presbytery as
its moderator. Calls came to him frequent-
ly from numerous other churches, but he
preferred long pastorates, and declined to
serve in Washington, Newark, Albany, and
other places. He was a man of many sided
ability and talent. So marked was this in
the line of art, that had he chosen to make
a life study of that rather than of preach-
ing, there is no doubt that he would have
stood at the front rank of American artists.
As it is, he painted many pictures which are
worthy of a place in the National Gallery.
Photography also engaged a considerable
share of his attention, and so notable was
his work in this direction that, at the time
of his death, the Camera Gub of Orange,
of which he was a member, donated two
hundred dollars to a charitable organiza-
tion in honor of his memory. He was
equally talented with his pen, and was a
frequent contributor to the literature of the
day, along secular and religious lines, and
some poems of which he was the author
are possessed of a high degree of literary
merit. He was of a genial and kindly na-
ture, and was a member of Hope Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons; The Authors'
Club, of New York City, the Royal Arca-
num ; and the Camera Club of Orange,
New Jersey.

Rev. Townsend married, June 10, 1884,
Mary Louise Mark-ham, of New York.
Children : Marian Louise, who married
Mahlon Hutchison ; Charles, deceased ;
Clady? Constance, married Guy Cory

Cleveland ; Charles Howard ; Roger Corn-
ing. Rev. Townsend was also survived by
a brother, E. Corning Townsend, of Buffa-
lo, New York, and two sisters, Mrs. George
B. Wellington, of Troy, New York, and
Cora Townsend, of Buffalo, New York. At
the time of the death of Rev. Townsend,
many organizations passed resolutions of
condolence, and two of these are here sub-
joined :

Whereas: In response to the call of our pres-
ident the Orange Camera Club is met together
this ipth day of December, nineteen hundred and
fourteen, to take such formal action as shall sin-
cerely though inadequately, express a sense of
our great loss and deep sorrow at the death of
our honored and beloved fellow member, Dr.
Charles Townsend. Therefore be it.

Resolved. That we give due and heartfelt ex-
pression to the personal bereavement experienced
by the membership of this organization, and to
the profound loss which the death of Dr. Town-
send means to this Club as such. Associated as
a member since February 2Oth, 1896, with all its
interests, ever solicitous for the highest and best
welfare of the Club, always in the administration
of its affairs when serving on any committees,
and ever invaluable both in service and in coun-
cil whenever called upon to associate himself in
its activities, the Orange Camera Club feels that
in the death of this most valued member, there is
incurred a loss which it will be impossible to
meet. As a Gub we put ourselves in memory
of the heavy obligations under which we find
ourselves to the skill, fidelity and devotion of
this departed member. Serving a term on our
Board of Governors, as a member at large, his
experience and his wisdom at the command of
the Club in whatever paths were opened to him,
and otherwise Dr. Townsend made himself con-
tinuously of the utmost value to this organization
so dear to him. Nor are we unmindful of his
broader and larger influence for good in the gen-
eral outside world of amateur photography. For
several years Dr. Townsend represented this
Club in the American Lantern Slide Exchange,
ever making his presence felt in its annual delib-
erations as a power in the conservation of the
best interests inherent in that branch of amateur
photography, his loss to that body will be felt as
keenly as it is to our own. Skilled in his own
photographic work, high in his conceptions of
this phase of art, clear and keen in critical ability,
generous and helpful to his fellow members,
broad and practical as a man of affairs, warm-

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hearted and devoted as a friend, we thus inscribe
our sentiment of loss with profoundest sorrow.
We would also voice our loss, not alone from a
photographic viewpoint, but would record the
fact that Dr. Townsend never failed to point us
to higher ideals as men, and his presence was a
continual inspiration to each of us. "His life
was gentle ; and the elements so mixed in him
that Nature might stand up and say to all the
world, this was a man !" It is therefore further
Resolved, That the foregoing be committed to
the formal records of our Club, and that a copy
of same be conveyed by the secretary to his fam-
ily. Done at a special meeting of the Orange
Camera Club, held Saturday evening, December
jgth, 1914, pursuant to a call of the President,
Mr. Richard F. Hetherington.

(Signed) GEORGE E. MELENDY,
LINDLEY H. BODE,
A. H. WILLIAMS,
Special Committee.

IN MEMORIAM
THE REV. CHARLES TOWNSEND, D. D.

Beloved Pastor of this Church for Ten Years,
1883-1893, Died at Orange, New Jersey, Decem-
ber 14. 1914. Held in grateful memory by this
congregation,

Resolved, That the Session of the First Pres-
hxttrian Church of Lansingburgh records with
sorrow the death of the Rev. Charles Townsend.
D. D., a former pastor of this church, who died
at his late residence in Orange. N. J., on Decem-
ber I4th, 1914. Dr. Townsend was called to the
pastorate of this church and was here ordained
and installed July 2, 1883, shortly following his
graduation from Auburn Theological Seminary.
For ten years this church prospered under his
vigorous and effective ministry, making large
accessions to its membership, and extensive im-
provements in its property. By his wholesome
cheer and hearty kindliness, his unfailing sym-
pathy and eager readiness to help. Dr. Town-
send increasingly endeared himself to his church ;
while his broad interest in public affairs, his gen-
ial friendliness and exceptional brilliancy of
mind won him a large circle of friends without,
and a very prominent place in the life of the
community. Frequently hearing warm expres-
sions of personal attachment to Dr. Townsend
and noting the wide spread sorrow his death has
occasioned among us, we are impressed anew
with the lasting influence of his ministry in this
place. Cherishing pleasant recollections of his
happy pastorate and lamenting his death, we
gratefully record in the Session Minutes of our
church, this tribute of esteem and affection. Re-

joicing in the distinguished success he has at-
tained in other pastorates, we much more re-
joice in the delightful continuance of the heart-
felt love which Dr. Townsend and his beloved
wife have always manifested towards this, their
first church, and in the frequent visits by which
they have kept the ties of old love and friendship
so closely knit. With a deep sense of our per-
sonal loss, we extend to Mrs. Townsend and to
the children, our affectionate sympathy, sincerely
praying that "the God of all comfort" may abund-
antly sustain them with His "sufficient grace."

Resolved. That this minute be presented to the
congregation for adoption at the morning ser-
vice on Sunday, December 20.

By order of the Session,

CHARLES H. WALKER, Moderator.
PAUL COOK, Clerk.

Dec. 18, 1914.

Elders: A. Hardy, Jas. J. Edelz, Warren T.
Kellogg. Joseph J. Hagen, J. K. P. Pine, Her-
bert L. Bryant, J. Edgar Sipperly, Edward W.
Arms, Joseph Macaulay. Mott D. Brown, John A.
Smith.

Trustees : W. N. Miter, L. W. Arms, Geo. F.
Wood. Neil K. White, Frank F. Kellogg, J.
Wright Gardner, per W. T. K. (out of town).

FRANCIS, Edward William,

Civil War Veteran, Manufacturer.

A man of serious aims, broad views on
all questions, generous ideals and shrewd
business opinions, was to be found in the
person of Edward William Francis, late of
East Orange, New Jersey. He was genial
and courteous on all occasions, and his ac-
curate estimate of human nature enabled
him to take a leading part in the selection
of the men necessary to fill the important
positions in the concern with which he was
identified for so long a period of time. He
was a descendant of William Francis, of the
Parish of Llysyfran, county of Pembroke,
South Wales, who sailed August 14, 1798,
in the ship "Cleopatra," from Fishguard.
William Arnold, son of William Francis,
and father of Edward William Francis,
was a man of large wealth, and he was en-
gaged in the business of importing fine
china. He married, January 10, 1839,
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Edward William Francis was born in
New York City, March 5, 1842, and died
at his home at No. 98 Walnut street, East
Orange, New Jersey, February 26, 1906.
He received a fine preparatory education at
a boarding school in Yonkers, New York,
but was obliged to spend one year in the
public schools of New York City, in order
to become eligible for entrance to the City
College. He soon became associated with
the Enoch Morgan's Sons Sapolio Com-
pany, and during the long period of forty
years filled the arduous post of treasurer of
the company. A description of this com-
pany and its importance is unnecessary in
this work. He always gave his political
support to the Democratic party, and for
many years was a member of the Town-
ship Improvement Society of East Orange.
He was an active participant in the strug-
gle of the Civil War, serving during two
enlistments. One was with the Ninth Reg-
iment, New York National Guard, and the
other was with the Seventy-first Regiment,
New York National Guard. His interest
in this latter regiment never abated
throughout his life, and during the Spanish
War he was instrumental in having his son
fight in the same regiment, and in this con-
nection, the latter took part in the battle of
Santiago, Cuba.

The fraternal affiliation of Mr. Francis
was with the order of Free and Accepted
Masons, in which he attained the thirty-
second degree. He had been a member of
a New York lodge, of which he became
grand master, but at the time of his death
his membership was with Hope Lodge, of
East Orange, New Jersey, which offici-
ated at his funeral. He was a life member
of the New Jersey Historical Society, and
one of the founders and a lifetime member
of Christ Church of East Orange. He had
no connection with any social order.

Mr. Francis married, in Grace Church.
Port Huron, Michigan. October 5, 1871,
Jane Akin, a daughter of Frederick Hoff-
man and Caroline (Williams) Vander-

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burgh, and a great-granddaughter of Colo-
nel James Vanderburgh, of Revolutionary
fame. Children : Caroline Louise, who
married Lincoln A. Wagenhals, of New
York City ; Arnold William, married Mar-
garet Andrews ; Alberta Jane, married
Covert L. Goodlove.

Mr. Francis was of a quiet and reserved
nature, making but few friends, but to
those few he was staunch and true in the
extreme. He was a man of cultured tastes,
extremely fond of literature, and one of
his chief pleasures was the collection of old
and rare editions, of which he had many
examples in his fine collection of more than
three thousand volumes. He took a deep
interest in the careers of ambitious young
men who were dependent upon their own
efforts for rise in life, and it was one of his
pleasures to start others on the road to
success which he had so brilliantly traveled.
Many a young man now in the full tide of
success owes his first upward step to the
guidance and substantial assistance given
him bv Mr. Francis.

BANISTER, James Albert.

Prominent Manufacturer, Useful Citizen.

The late James Albert Banister, of New-
ark, New Jersey, was one of that represen-
tative class of American citizens of whom
this country may well feel proud. While
devoting himself with intense interest to
furthering the business enterprises with
which he was connected, he never lost
sight of the fact that in doing so he could
also further the interests, to an appreciable
extent, of the community in which he lived
as well as those of the country at large.
For the facts in the following sketch of his
life we are indebted to his widow, and in
part we are using her own words. The
ancestors of Mr. Banister were Scotch-
English, and were pioneers in the settle-
ment of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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the numerous hardships with which the
early settlers were obliged to contend.
They literally hewed their homes out of
the virgin forests and established com-
fortable homesteads. They lived with "an
axe in one hand and a rifle in the other/'
while they vigilantly protected their fam-
ilies from stealthy attacks by the Indians.
Valuable service as scouts in the early
wars, an escape from the Wyoming Mas-
sacre, a life laid down in command in the
battle of the Minnisink. are prized records
in the family annals.

Elijah Bannister,* grandfather of the
subject of this sketch, during the intervals
in hunting and farming, took up the mak-
ing of boots and shoes, and his second
son, Isaac, at an earlv age left his home in
order to develop this industry in the vil-
lage of Mount Hope, Orange county, New
York, and later in Middletown, New York.

Isaac Banister was gifted with a fine
physique and with mental endowments of
an unusually high order. Without the
education of higher schools, but with a
speculative and inventive bent of mind,
he was a well read man, and a leader in
public debate so popular at that period.
Before the age of ten years his son, James
Albert, was required to read aloud to the
workmen the best literature procurable,
on widely diversified subjects. This train-
ing, in addition to the academic education
afforded at Middletmvn, stimulated the
boy to hope for a college and professional
course, but it was willed otherwise. His
father, who had prospered hitherto, en-
dorsed notes for a supposed friend who
proved unfaithful and untrustworthy, and
the savings of years of labor were lost to
preserve untarnished the family name. At
this juncture the entire family, consisting
of the parents and five children came to
Newark, New Jersey, in 1841, where

*Bannister was the name form used by Elijah ;
his son Isaac, used that of Banister, which has
been followed by his descendants.

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James Albert was placed in the best school
the city had to offer. This, however, he
found was not in advance of the knowl-
edge he had already acquired, and he
determined to turn his attention to busi-
ness.

James Albert Banister, son of Isaac and
Cynthia (Baird) Banister, was born in the
village of Middletown, Orange county,
New York, in 1831, and died in Newark,
New Jersey, February 4, 1906. At the
time he removed to Newark with his par-
ents, a boy, as now, who was really willing
to work, could find it at hand, and prob-
ably from that time forward until he was
!>:ist middle life, Mr. Banister never knew
what it was to have an idle day. His first
venture was in a dry goods store on Mar-
ket street near Broad. The hours were
long, especially so on Saturday. There was
no curfew in Newark, but the night watch
had a paternal interest in boys who wei-e
abroad late, and at first he used to accost
the lad and inquire what business led him
to walk past the old First Church toward
the White School House as the clock
struck one of a Sunday morning.

With the hope of at some time entering
the medical profession. Mr. Banister soon
found a position where he could at least
acquire a knowledge of drugs, in the store
of Roswell Van Buskirk, on the north-
west corner of Broad and Market streets,
remaining there until Mr. Banister opened
a drug store in Paterson, New Jersey, in
1851. After his marriage in 1852, Mr.
Banister found that his earnings as a
druggist were not sufficient to support a
family, and accordingly he returned to
Newark, there to become an assistant to
his father.

In 1845, his father had established a
boot and shoe manufactory which had
prospered steadily. Pleased with his son's
adaptability and helpful ideas, he admitted
him to a partnership which was continued
uninterruptedly until the father's retire-
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of a large army contract by James Al-
bert Banister, was the admission of Lyman
S. Tichenor into a partnership which con-
tinued until the death of Mr. Tichenor in
1881. Mr. Banister then continued the
business alone until 1892, when he formed
a stock company of which he became pres-
ident ; John W. Denny, treasurer ; and
G<eorge E. McLellan, secretary. This cor-
poration continued until the death of Mr.
Banister. Since that time, the business
has been continued as the James A. Banis-
ter Company.

Thus we have the brief record of the
business life of Mr. Banister, and into it
was crowded great energy and inventive
genius, with a constant aspiration to be in
the foremost rank and a determination to
be strictly conscientious in his relations to
the trade and to his employees. "No man
did more to win world-wide recognition of
the American shoe product, no man lived
a life of greater activity in the trade, and
won more laurels with a fuller measure of
esteem and respect." Above such recogni-
tion, he valued the trust and affection of
his employees, into whose personal affairs
he entered as a friendly helper. Simple
tastes and unbending integrity character-
ized his career, and his life was both an
incentive and an example.

Absorbing as was his business, it form-
ed but a small portion of his interest in
life. From early manhood, he was devot-
ed to the progress of the church, giving
his best to the promotion of a higher life
in religion and in civics. Generous and
sympathetic, his aid was rendered in a
quiet manner to many a widow and
orpan, and "such as had no helper." The
Young Men's Christian Association in-
terested him for many years, he was
chosen president in 1895, ar"d was the in-
cumbent of this office until his death. He
was a director of the Home of the Friend-
less and of the Christian Refuge. He was
a member of the Newark Board of Trade,
president of the Fairmount Cemetery As-

sociation, and a director of the National
Newark Banking Company, the Howard
Savings Institution, and the American In-
surance Company.

This sketch would be incomplete did it
not contain a mention of the home, the
very center of his devotion. Mr. Banister
married, in 1852, Lydia Slater Birdsall,
who died in 1875. He married (second)
in 1876, Adelaide Corwin, who survives
him. By the first marriage there were ten
children, of whom there are now (1915)
living: Isaac ; James Bryan, who succeed-
ed his father in business ; Albert Lincoln,
and Arthur Chadwick. The late William
Jackson Banister was the eldest son. By
the second marriage there were four chil-
dren : Ethel Adelaide, who married Dr.
William Talbot, of Newark; Dr. Robert
Louis Banister ; Mary Williams, who mar-
ried Dr. Harrv W. Redfield, of Cornell
University: Howell Corwin, who died in
infancy. To his family Mr. Banister left
the best legacy — the memory of a devoted
Christian life.

WEST, Charles W.,

Financier, Manufacturer.

Charles W. West, a prominent citizen of
Elizabeth, New Jersey, was descended
from an old English family, the members
of which have for many generations held
prominent positions in their respective
communities.

Colonel Charles A. West, grandfather of
Charles W. West, distinguished himself in
the Peninsular War. He was one of the
founders of that institution in Great
Britain, known as the Blue Coat School.

Captain Henry A. West, father of
Charles W. West, was a member of the
Twelfth Infantry, in the English army. He
married a daughter of Sir James Pitcairn,
whose cousin, the Duchess of Roxborough,
was lady in waiting to Queen Victoria, and
the sixth bridesmaid at the latter's wed-
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West, at one time English Ambassador to
the United States, and was descended from
the Earl De La Warre, known in history
as Lord Delaware, an early settler of Vir-
ginia, and founder of the State named after
him.

Charles W. West, the subject of this re-
view, was born April 8, 1834, on board of
a man-of-war in the Bay of Trafalgar, at
a time when Captain West, accompanied
by his wife, was in command of a detach-
ment of troops on their way from Gibraltar
to England. He died in his home in Eliza-
beth, New Jersey, September 17, 1885. He
acquired a comprehensive education in the
Blue Coat School founded by his grand-
father, and, when he had attained man-
hood, came to America. For a time he
lived in Brooklyn. About the year 1869 he
removed to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where
he resided during the remainder of his life.
For many years he was a broker, with
offices at No. 48 Broadway, New York
City, and was also a member of the firm of
Leinbach, Wolle & Company, at Trenton,
New Jersey, which firm originated the self-
opening paper bag, the forerunner for the
Union Bag.

Mr. West married. May 24, 1869, Louisa
A. Arnold, born in Harrow, England,
March 30, 1844, died in Elizabeth, New
Jersey, October 21, 1914. The marriage
took place in Trinity Church, New York
City. Their children were : Louise Harriet,
William Ernest, Charles Pitcairn, Con-
stance Maude, Henry Dalbiac, Amy Eliz-
abeth, Arthur Pelham, Alfred Llewellyn,
and Reginald Arnold.

Mr. West, although very popular in so-
cial life, was of a quiet and unassuming
disposition. He never discussed his family
connections, and preferred to be known as
a plain American citizen. Those who knew
him personally held him in warm regard.
He thoroughly enjoyed home life, and was
devoted to his family and friends. He
gave generously to charity, and was always
ready to assist anyone in trouble. He was

a devout churchman, and his high moral
character is deserving of the greatest com-
mendation.

PETERSON, Benjamin,

Citizen of Sterling Character.

The history of a State, as well as that of
a Nation, consists chiefly of the chronicles
of the lives and deeds of those who have
conferred honor and dignity upon society,
whether in the broad sphere of public la-
bors or in the more circumscribed, yet none
the less worthy and valuable, of individual
activity through which the general good is
ever promoted. The names borne by the
late Benjamin Peterson and his son, Bertel
Peterson, have ever stood for the most
sterling personal characteristics, the deep-
est appreciation of the rights and privileges
of citizenship in our great Republic.

Benjamin Peterson was born in Copen-
hagen, Denmark, March i, 1843, ar>d died
at his home in Paterson, New Jersey, Jan-
uary 30, 1910. His education was acquired
in the schools of his native city, and there
he was apprenticed to learn the cabinet
maker trade which he followed in Den-
mark until he was twenty- four years of
age. He then emigrated to America, deem-
ing that better opportunities awaited him
here, and for a time made his home in the
city of New York, and, in 1869, removed
to Paterson, New Jersey, where he con-
tinued to work at his trade. For many
years he had charge of the carpentering de-
partment in the Benjamin Eastwood plant.
He was a devout member of the Fourth
Baptist Church, and found his chief recre-
ation in affairs connected with this institu-
tion. He was a deacon and trustee in the
church, superintendent of the Sunday
school, and at times a teacher of the Bible
class. One of his chief pleasures was en-
tertaining the various church members at
his own home, which was noted for its
openhanded hospitality. He was also a
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paid the strictest attention to the duties at Auerato, near Monterey. He was also

connected with this post. In political mat-
ters he was a Republican, and he was a
member of the Order of Free and Accept-
ed Masons, and of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. Mr. Peterson married,
in 1869, Mary Baxter, who survives him,
and is living at No. 548 East Twenty-
fourth street, Paterson. Children : Bertel
and Mary.

PETERSON, Bertel,

Prominent in Mining Enterprises.

Bertel Peterson, son of Benjamin and
Mary (Baxter) Peterson, was born in Pat-
erson, New Jersey, December 3, 1870, and
died at Los Angeles, California. February
10, 1909. He was nine years of age when
his parents removed to the house in which
his mother is still residing. His education
was acquired in his native city, and was a
sound and practical one.

Shortly after his graduation he com-
menced making an especial study of min-
ing interests, and then went to Mexico,
and was identified with mining enterprises
from that time until obliged by ill health
to take a much needed rest. This, how-
ever was taken too late, and he suffered
from overwork, which resulted in the at-
tack of typhoid fever which brought on
death. He was buried in Ivy Hill Ceme-
tery, Philadelphia, and his father was laid
at rest beside him in less than a year. The
first four years that Mr. Peterson passed
in the west were spent in the employ of
the Carman Company, of Philadelphia,
which had mines at Vilodona. For a short
time he was connected with the Guggen-
heim mining interests, and then became su-
perintendent of the La Forma mine. H?
went to Sonora in 1894 to become man-
ager for the Grand Central Mining Com-
pany at that place, retained this position
five years, then associated himself with
three other experts, and formed the
Ajuchitlau Mining and Milling Company,

the manager of the El Rayo Mining Com-
pany at Chihuahua, Mexico, and while
there was seized with his final illness. Mr.
Peterson was a member of the Parral For-
eign Club, and at the time of his death
the club house was draped in black as a
mark of respect to his memory. He was
also a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 5,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; a
Lodge of Sorrow meeting was held in
memory of the departed brother. He was
a thirty-second degree Mason, was a
member of Texas Consistory, No. 3, Royal
and Select Masters ; and of El Maida
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Peterson had
joined the Fourth Baptist Church of Pat-
erson, when quite a youth, and he always
kept in touch with his Paterson friends,
one of the most favored of whom was Dr.
J. A. Reinhart, the principal of the local
high school. In 1904 Mr. Peterson mar-
ried Nellie Neilson, of Philadelphia, who
survived her husband, and is now living in
Philadelphia with their only child : Bertel
Neilson, who was born April 25, 1908.

KIDD, Harry J.,

Prominent Manufacturer and Citizen.

It is not always the men who occupy
public office who mold public opinion and
leave their impress upon public life, but
frequently the men who in the performance
of their daily duty wield the power that is
all the more potent from the fact that it
is moral rather than political, and is exer-
cised for the public weal rather than for
personal ends. Of the late Harry J. Kidd,
of East Orange. New Jersey, it may be
said that he was one of the prominent busi-
ness men in his line in the country, and
was a student of business in all of its com-
plex and varied interests in relation to the
trade of the world. He belonged to that
public-spirited, useful and helpful type of
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tered and directed in those channels through
which flows the greatest and most perman-
ent good to the greatest number. He was
in its highest and broadest sense a patriotic
American citizen, with the truest concep-
tion of the American idea of the common
brotherhood of man. His family was num-
bered among the early settlers in this coun-
try. Among those families who originally
received grants from Lord Baltimore were
the Kidds, and this grant of land has come
down through the generations to the father
of Harry ]. Kidd, William Kidd, who was
a typical, old-school, southern gentleman,
dignified and aristocratic. He married Jane
Skippon, of English parentage, a gifted
woman, of ability and high ambitions, qual-
ities which she transmitted to her four sons
and two daughters in rich measure, as their,
subsequent careers amply testify. Of all
the families who originally received grants
from Lord Baltimore, there are now left
only the Kidd and the Cross families, these
estates facing each other across the valley.
and they have now been united by inter-
marriage between the families.

Harry J. Kidd was born at Parkton, Bal-
timore county, Maryland, about thirty miles
from the city of Baltimore, June 13, 1864,
and died at his home, No. 26 Prospect
street, East Orange, New Jersey, Novem-
ber 4, 1914, his death being caused by in-
juries received the preceding day in an au-
tomobile accident.

Until the age of fourteen years, Mr.
Kidd's life was spent on the home planta-
tion, and he was then sent to Washington,
District of Columbia, where he resided at
the home of an aunt and attended school,
making the best use of his opportunities.
The indolent life which he would be oblig-
ed to lead on the plantation was not in ac-
cordance with the ambitious, energetic na-
ture he had inherited from his mother, and
he was but eighteen years of age when he
decided to make his own way in the world,
along busier lines than he would be able to
find at home. With an energy deserving

of all praise, Mr. Kidd obtained for him-
self a position as clerk in a leading retail
shoe store in Washington, and there learn-
ed all the details of the business in the
most practical manner, and became an ex-
pert and valued salesman. In 1892 he form-
ed a connection with the firm of Johnston &
Murphy, shoe manufacturers, of Newark,
New Jersey, and became their representa-
tive in the Southern States, having full
charge of their business relations there. He
largely increased the business of this house,
and made many personal as well as busi-
ness friends, during his years of activity
there. In 1902, in association with Luther
B. Snyder, he organized the firm of Snyder
& Kidd, retailing high grade shoes at No.
121 1 F street, North West, Washington,
District of Columbia. Five years later he
was admitted to a partnership in the firm
of Johnston & Murphy, of Newark, New
Jersey, the other members at that time
being Herbert P. Gleason, William J.
O'Rourke and George D. Gleason. In
1911, Mr. O'Rourke withdrew from this
firm, the Messrs. Gleason and Mr. Kidd
continuing the business. Mr. Kidd retain-
ed his interest in the retail business in
Washington, but gave his personal atten-
tion to the affairs of the Newark business.
Until 1907 he had made his home in Wash-
ington, but at that time he took up his res-
idence in East Orange, New Jersey, so that
he might be near the business which claim-
ed the greater share of his attention. He
was one of the most popular men in the
shoe trade in the country, and owed his
rise in this line of business solely to his
own efforts. He was a man of fine per-
sonal appearance, being nearly six feet in
height, and well proportioned. He was
of a genial and pleasant disposition, made
friends readily, and had the happy faculty
of retaining them. He had the respect of
all who knew him for his many sterling
qualities. He was broadminded and liberal
in his ideas, and years of travel had brought
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all its phases. He wielded a wonderful in-
fluence for good over all with whom he had
dealings, and was a gladly welcomed figure
in social circles. He found his greatest
pleasure, however, in the more confined
home circle, was a devoted husband and a
loving and indulgent father. He kept well
abreast of the times in every respect, giving
due thought and study to the public
questions of the day, and formed clear and
logical deductions. He was generous in his
support of all projects which had for their
object some worthy cause. For many years
he had been an attendant at the Calvary
Methodist Church, but during the last years
of his life had given much thought and
study to Christian Science, in which he had
become a firm believer.

Mr. and Mrs. Kidd were returning in
their electric limousine from a trip through
the South Mountain Reservation, when on
Mount Pleasant avenue the brake refused
to grip, the car was wrecked, and both Mr.
and Mrs. Kidd were sent to the Memorial
Hospital in Orange, where the death of
Mr. Kidd occurred. Mr. Kidd married, in
Washington, District of Columbia, in Feb-
ruary 11, 1891, Lillian M. Walker, born in
Washington, a daughter of John C. and
Margaret J. (Jones) Walker, an old fam-
ily of Fairfax, Virginia. They have one
daughter, Dorothy, who was born in 1901.

"Modern Shoemaking," at the time of
the death of Mr. Kidd, paid him a fine trib-
ute, saying in part as follows :

"A man of positive character, and honest in
the best and largest sense, Mr. Kidd's loss is
personal, and profound, in the large circle of
friends that made up his business and social as-
sociates. His life was such that we may say with
Chadwick: 'Thanks be to God that such have
been though they are here no more.' Those who
knew Mr. Kidd best valued him most, and his
character will always remain in their memory as
a standard of integrity, of high living and high
thinking, and an example of constant and unob-
trusive devotion to that which was best worth
while in this life."

ing letter, received by its editor from
George L. Starks, who was in Shreveport,
Louisiana, at the time, and who was for
twenty years a personal friend of Mr.
Kidd:

"Since last we met the grim old reaper, Death,
has gathered another one of our mutual friends
to the bosom of his fathers. One whom to know
was to love. And, as a prominent shoe retailer of
Nashville, Tennessee, once told me, to count
among your friends was an honor, Mr. Harry J.
Kidd, of the firm of Johnston & Murphy, New-
ark, New Jersey, who a few days ago met such
a sad death in an auto accident near his home at
East Orange, New Jersey. Harry had travelled
for years in the South for Johnston & Murphy,
and was loved and respected by all who knew
him. His loss is a great blow to me. We had
been friends for more than twenty years, and in
all that time he was the same cultured, genial gen-
tleman, always with a pleasant smile, and a kind
word for all. Never once in my long acquaint-
ance with him did I ever hear him utter an un-
kind word as criticism of his fellow men. It
takes no eloquence or words from me to call
your attention to his virtues, for to know Harry
J. Kidd was to read an open book of true man-
hood. He gave to the world, in sunshine and
storm, all he had. save honor and manliness, and
in return received the confidence, friendship and
respect of all who knew him. His memory will
live in the hearts of his friends until they, too,
are called to answer to that to which he and so
many others of my dear friends and comrades
have responded. The world is better off be-
cause Harry J. Kidd lived, and mankind was
blessed with his gentle, loving manner and pure
type of manhood. He reflected in mankind the
great Master's teaching : 'Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you.' "

'The Shoe Retailer" printed the follow-

BROWN, Abel Swan,

Man of Large Affairs.

Abel Swan Brown, late of Passaic, New
Jersey, was a descendant of James Brown,
one of the early settlers of Hatfield, Mas-
sachusetts. Rev. Abel Brown, father of
the Mr. Brown of this sketch, was ordain-
ed a minister of the Baptist church in
1837. He was active in the "Underground
Railway'" to assist slaves on their way to
Canada, and in 1839 was appointed agent

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of the Western Education Society, and
assisted in raising $80,000 to found a col-
lege. He had married, in 1835, Mary Ann
Brigham, who was an active worker in
the temperance cause, was the founder of
the Orphans' Home in Albany, and at the
time of her death at the early age of twenty-
seven years, editress of "The Golden Rule,"
in that city. Mr. Brown was associated
with E. W. Goodwin in the publication
of "The Tocsin of Liberty," at Albany,
New York, in 1842. He married (second)
in 1843, Catherine, a daughter of Samuel
Swan, of Hubbardston, Massachusetts.
Mrs. Brown was at that time the agent of
the Eastern New York Anti-Slavery So-
ciety, and she assisted Mr. Brown at his
meetings by singing and speaking. Mr.
Brown died in Canandaigua, New York,
in 1844, after a short illness, and his widow
married (second) in 1855, Rev. Charles
Spear, a Universalist minister of Boston,
now also deceased.

Abel Swan Brown, only child of Rev.
Abel and Catherine (Swan) Brown, was
born at Hubbardston, Massachusetts, July
3, 1845, and died at his home in Passaic,
New Jersey, September 6, 1899. His
mother having remarried, he was brought
up by his grandparents in Hubbardston,
and there attended school until he had at-
tained the age of sixteen years. He also
benefited by one term in a Boston school.
He then obtained a position in the dry
goods store of Josiah H. Clarke, of Wor-
cester, Massachusetts, where he soon
proved his ability as a salesman. He was
twenty years of age when he entered the
employ of the firm of Lathrop, Ludington
& Company, an important dry goods
house in New York, his uncle, Reuben
Swan, being a member of the firm. At the
end of three years he obtained a position
with H. B. Claflin & Company, of New
York, and held an important position with
this firm for a period of eleven years. In
1880 Mr. Brown organized the Syndicate
Trading Company, with the main office in

New York City and branch offices at .Man-
chester, England ; Paris, France ; St. Gall,
Switzerland; and Chemnitz, Germany. He
was elected to the presidency of this cor-
poration, an office ho filled with remark-
able executive ability throughout the re-
mainder of his life. The original firms
forming this company were : Adam, Mel-
drum & Anderson, of Buffalo, New York ;
Callender, McAuslan & Troup, of Provi-
dence, Rhode Island ; Brown & Thomp-
son, of Hartford, Connecticut ; Forbes &
Wallace, of Springfield, Illinois ; Sibley,
Lindsay & Curr, of Rochester, New York ;
Taylor & Kilpatrick, of Cleveland, Ohio.
Later, other leading department houses
joined the concern, until it was composed
of the largest and most progressive de-
partment stores of the United States. The
Syndicate Trading Company grew to be
the largest business of its kind in the
country, their annual purchases amount-
ing to upward of $20,000,000 worth of
goods annually. When the senior partner
of Denholm & McKay, one of the firms of
the Syndicate, died in 1890, Mr. Brown
acquired a controlling interest in this cor-
poration, which owned the Boston Store
in Worcester. He became the president
of the Boston Store, and after that he
spent a part of each week in Worcester,
and the other part in New York. Subse-
quently he held the same official position
in the Pettis Dry Goods Company, of
Indianapolis, Indiana; and became vice-
president of the Callender, McAuslan &
Troup Company, and of the Doggett Dry
Goods Company, of Kansas City, Mis-
souri.

He made his home in Brooklyn, New
York, until 1880, when he removed to
Passaic, New Jersey. After he had be-
come interested in the Boston Store, in
Worcester, he made his summer home
there, calling this "The Hermitage," this
being one of the "show places" of that
vicinity. His estate there consists of about
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"Wildwood Park," and in this place he
provided a day of enjoyment, annually,
for his employees in the Boston Store,
who came with their families. In Wor-
cester he attended the Main Street Baptist
Church, and was a member of the Bible
class of the Hon. Joseph H. Walker.
Later he was a member of the First Bap-
tist Church of Brooklyn, now known as
the Baptist Temple. In this he was su-
perintendent of the financial department,
a member of the music committee, trustee,
and chief organizer in 1877 of the Young
People's Baptist Union, the most active
organization of that denomination in
Brooklyn, which has since become a na-
tional organization of the Baptist denom-
ination. His wife was also an active work-
er in the church, both were prominent in
musical circles, Mr. Brown being president
of the Amateur Philharmonic Society.
In Passaic they joined the First Baptist
Church, of which he was a trustee, and
chairman of the music committee. He
took a leading part in the organization of
the Young Men's Christian Association,
of Passaic, and was a member of the
Board of Directors from its inception until
his death. He was a generous contributor
to this association, as well as to the Gen-
eral Hospital, and a number of charitable
institutions. He was patriotic and public
spirited to a degree, and organized the
movement to build the City Hall, one of
the finest in the entire State ; also the
public library building and the Passaic
Club house. In political matters he was
a stanch Republican, and while his in-
fluence was a wide spread one for good,
he consistently declined public office, on
account of lack of time. He was a mem-
ber of the New York Chamber of Com-
merce, and was one of the original com-
mittee sent to the monetary conference at
Indianapolis. His social membership, in
addition to that mentioned above was with
the Passaic Club, the Worcester Club,

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Tatnuck Country Club, Union League
Club, Merchants' and Wool Club of New
York City, and the Kenilworth Literary
Society of Passaic.

Mr. Brown married, in June, 1869,
Charlotte, a daughter of John Connah,
Jr., and his wife, Keturah E. Connah, of
New York City, and they had children :
i. Irving Swan, a real estate dealer in
New York City, president of what is known
as the Swan Brown Company. 2. Luther
Connah, president of the Boston Store,
Worcester, Massachusetts, as was his
father. Mrs. Brown resides at the original
home in Passaic, and is actively interested
with charitable, philanthropic and reli-
gious work in that city. Mr. Brown's
death in the very prime of life was a great
loss to the mercantile world and was re-
garded in the light of personal bereave-
ment by many business friends and em-
ployees, as well as by his immediate family
and personal friends. The length of the
life of such a man is measured by his
achievements, not by the mere number of
years he has counted. The resolutions
adopted at the time of his death by the
City Council of Passaic contained the fol-
lowing paragraph :

In his private life, in his business career and
in the active interest taken by him in public af-
fairs, he has left a noteworthy example and one
that reflects credit upon himself and luster upon
the community in which he took such pride. He
was exemplary in his private life and character,
a man of liberal disposition, abundant in his be-
nevolences, which were always bestowed with
judgment and without ostentation. We record
with satisfaction the fact that his name has be-
come widely known and highly esteemed far be-
yond the city limits in which he lived as a busi-
ness man of sterling character and unusual ability
and capacity. On the foundation of strict integ-
rity and sound business principles he built up a
large commercial structure, the uprearing and
conduct of which called for the shrewdest busi-
ness instinct and sagacity, the most practical com-
mon sense and unwearying personal energy and
industry.

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DRAKE, Edward Cortlandt,

Merchant, Active in Fnblic Concerns.

Edward Cortlandt Drake was one of the
best known and most influential citizens
of Newark, New Jersey, where he lived
the greater part of his life. He was a
member of a prominent and highly re-
spected family of Morris county in the
same State, which has made its home for
a number of generations in the picturesque
town of Mendham, the family homestead
being erected there in the year 1743. So
complete has been the development of the
Eastern States, and so entirely has every
trace of past conditions been obliterated,
that it is practically impossible for those
who dwell within their borders at the
present time, sunk in the security and sur-
rounded with all the circumstances of an
age-old civilization, to realize how short
a time has elapsed since their now quiet
farms and busy cities were parts of an un-
broken wilderness extending indefinitely
westward and inhabited by semi-hostile
savages. And yet it was not so many
years before the building of the old Drake
residence that what is now Morris county
actually lay within such a region and that
peaceful and familiar Lake Hopatcong
was but dimly known and then only as a
rendezvous for the tribes of the Lenni-
Lenape.

The town of Mendham itself is one of
the oldest places in Morris county, and the
natural beauty of site is taken advantage
of to the fullest extent by the work of
man. The wide and tree-bordered streets
make one think of the typical New Eng-
land town, and the simple and substantial
dwellings belong to a period when men
built for comfort rather than display, and
for their children as well as themselves.
Such a house is that of the Drake family,
where Edward C. Drake first saw the light
of day. His father, who had always lived
there, was Colonel James Wills Drake, and
his mother had been before her marriage,

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Nancy Carnes Doty, a member of another
old New Jersey family. Colonel James
Wills Drake was a prominent man in his
neighborhood. He was a surveyor and
civil engineer by profession, both callings
for which there was great demand in that
day, and he was also prominently associat-
ed with the New Jersey National Guard,
serving as captain, major and colonel, con-
secutively, in the Seventy-first Regiment,
Morris Brigade, under the administration
of Governor Williamson. He also repre-
sented his district in the State Legislature
during the term of 1840-41. His progeni-
tors were among the first settlers in Mend-
ham, coming at the same time as the
Byram, Cary and Thompson families. The
first person buried in the ancient graveyard
adjoining the Presbyterian church in 1745
was Mrs. Drake. On the farm of Colonel
James Wills Drake, about forty rods from
his dwelling, there was once an Indian
village ; arrow heads and other Indian
relics having there been found in abun-
dance. In the winter of 1779-80 when the
American headquarters were at Morris-
town, a portion of the army were barrack-
ed in rude log huts in both Mendham and
Morris townships. The headquarters of
two of the officers. Colonel Robinson and
Chevalier Massillion, a French officer,
were at the dwelling later occupied by
Colonel James W. Drake, about a mile
from Mendham village on the road to Mor-
ristown. the home at that time of Colonel
Drake's grandfather. During the sick-
ness, suffering and want of that winter,
there were pitted against the barn of Mr.
Drake at one lime forty coffins, that build-
ing being at the time in use as a hospital.
Edward Cortlandt Drake was born in
the old Drake dwelling in Mendham, and
there passed a considerable portion of his
childhood, attending private schools in
that place and in Morristown, where he
received the general part of his education.
He later removed to Newark and there
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where he finished preparing himself tech-
nically for the business career for which
his natural talents fitted him. Somewhat
later he opened a mercantile house in his
adopted city, devoting himself to the sale
of drygoods.

Mr. Drake's activity was by no mean*
measured by his mercantile enterprises,
however, for though a successful merchant
whose time was largely occupied in the
conduct of his business, he nevertheless
gave generously both of energy and at-
tention to many other departments of the
community's life. He was always particu-
larly interested in the conduct of public
affairs from a purely altruistic viewpoint
and because he truly desired the welfare of
the community. He never took part in
politics, as that phrase is used at the pres-
ent time, although a keen observer of po-
litical issues, both national and local, and
a staunch member of the Democratic
party. He was active only to the point
of doing all that he could in furtherance
of the principles in which he believed in
his capacity as a private citizen, but always
consistently declined the numerous offers
of office that were tendered him. How
prominent and influential he was in this
line, despite his aloofness from the game
of politics, and how important and popular
a figure he was in the life of Newark, may
be gathered from the fact that he was
mentioned by his party as candidate for
mayor of the city, but would not himself
consider it. The last decade of the past
century was marked in New Jersey by the
sittings of the important commission ap-
pointed to revise the system of jurispru-
dence in the State, and at two successive
sessions, those of 1803-94, was Mr. Drake
a member of that honorable body, attend-
ing its meetings and taking part in its de-
liberations.

Mr. Drake was also a member of club
circles in Newark, and was a member of a
number of prominent organizations such
as the Washington Association, the His-

torical Society of New Jersey, and th>-
Essex Club of Newark. No sketch of Mr.
Drake would be complete without a men-
tion of the factor of religion and his as-
sociation with his church extending over
a long period of years. He was an Epis-
copalian in belief, and was a member of
long standing in Grace Episcopal Church
of Newark. He was active in the work
of the parish, holding the office of vestry-
man for overy thirty years, and supported
materially the many philanthropies in con-
nection therewith.

Mr. Drake married, March 28, 1860, in
Elizabeth, New Jersey, Mary Jane Wood-
ruff, a resident of that place, and a daugh-
ter of Stephens Haines and Abigail Ogden
(Meeker) Woodruff, well known people of
Elizabeth. To Mr. and Mrs. Drake were
born five children, as follows : Nicholas
Murray, deceased ; Mary C., who became
Mrs. Howell, now deceased: Gertrude
Woodruff ; Helen Esther, now Mrs. Wil-
liam Chauncey Coles, of Summit: Edwina.
now Mrs. Archibald E. Montgomery, of
Tenafly.

BALL, James Thomas,

Prominent Merchant, Esteemed Citizen.

James T. Ball was of the sixth Ameri-
can generation of the Ball family, and of
the sixth generation of his direct ancestors
in Newark. Edward Ball, of the ancient
English family first mentioned in the Book
of Domesday, came from England in the
year 1665, first making settlement at Bran-
ford, Connecticut. The English family of
Ball bore arms thus described in Burke:
"Out of a ducal coronet a hand and arm,
embowered in mail, grasping a fireball, all
proper."

That Edward Ball, of Branford and
Newark, New Jersey, and Colonel William
Ball, settled at St. Mary's, Virginia, in
1657, sprang from' the same stock, there is
little doubt, but no known connection can
be shown. The Balls of Virginia, from

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whom President Washington maternally de-
cended, and the Balls of Newark, New Jer-
sey, both have ample claim to distinction and
neither need depend on the other for great-
ness yet they probably sprang from a com-
mon ancestor.

Edward Ball did not long remain in Con-
necticut, but short as the time was, he there
married Abigail Blatchley, and the same
year he appears as one of the Twelve Pro-
prietors of the town of Newark, his first
date of residence being October 30, 1665.
He was then about twenty-five years of
age, and a man of importance in the set-
tlement on the "Passaick" and in the coun-
ty of Essex, for he filled many town of-
fices, and in 1692 and 1693 was high sher-
iff of the county. His last appearance in
public life was as a member of the grand
jury in 1709 and 1710. Abigail Blatchley,
wife of Edward Ball, was a daughter of
Thomas Blatchley, also an Englishman and
a resident of Branford. Children : Caleb,
Joseph, Moses, Thomas; Abigail, married
Daniel Harrison ; Lydia, married Joseph
Peck.

Thomas, youngest son of Edward and
Abigail (Blatchley) Ball, was born in New-
ark, in 1687, ar>d there spent his life, dying
in 1744, the old cemetery of Newark being
his burial place. He left to his nine sons
four hundred acres of land, but all except
a portion left to Aaron, his second son, has
passed out of the family. He married
Sarah Davis, who survived him over thir-
ty-four years, dying February i, 1778, aged
eighty-seven years, a daughter of Thomas
Davis, who in his will named "Sarah, wife
of Thomas Ball." She is buried in the old
graveyard at Connecticut Farms (Union,
New Jersey), where she slept undisturbed
while two years later (June, 1780), over
her grave the battle was raging in which
a dozen of her descendants took part, one
of whom, Samuel Ball, son of Ezekiel, was
mortally wounded. Children of Thomas
Ball: A daughter, died unmarried ; Timo-
thy, married Esther Bruen ; Aaron, mar-

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ried Hannah Camp ; Apphia, married Si-
mon Learing; Nathaniel, married Esther
Osborn ; Ezekiel, of further mention.

From an old tombstone in the church
graveyard at Connecticut Farms, this in-
scription is taken : "Here lies the body of
Sarah, wife of Thomas Ball who died Feb-
ruary A. D., 1778, in the 88th year of her
age."

Ezekiel, sixth child and fourth son of
Thomas and Sarah (Davis) Ball, seems to
have been overlooked by the biographers
and record keepers of his day, as there
is nothing to show the date of his birth or
death, nor whom he married. He left five
sons: Stephen, a surgeon of the Continen-
tal army ; Timothy, Edward, William ; Sam-
uel, of further mention.

Samuel, second son of Ezekiel Ball, was
an officer of the Revolutionary army, and
at the battle of Connecticut Farms, fought
in June, 1780, against the British, received
a mortal wound. He married and left
three sons : Oliver, of further mention ;
Gardner and Samuel.

Oliver, eldest son of Samuel Ball, the
Revolutionary patriot, died in Newark, in
1845, aged sixty-six years. He married
Elizabeth Ward, who died in 1865, aged
eighty- four years. His four sons were:
Edwin N., a real estate dealer of Newark ;
Augustus I., member of the carriage man-
ufacturing firm of Quinby & Company,
Newark; Hooper C., a manufacturing jew-
eler of Newark ; Horace W., of further
mention. His three daughters, Harriet,
Matilda and Julietta married, respectively,
Abraham Johnson, of Lyons Farms, George
Rolff, of Danbury, Connecticut, and Hor-
ace Ailing, of Newark.

Horace W., youngest son of Oliver and
Elizabeth (Ward) Ball, was born, lived
and died in Newark, where during his bus-
iness life he was a manufacturing jeweler.
He married Elizabeth Daniels, and left
sons, Alfred P. and James Thomas.

James Thomas, son of Horace W. and
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ark, New Jersey, July 14, 1846, and after
a useful life of fifty-two years died there
January 7, 1898. He attended Hedges'
private school in Newark, but he was a
youth of such delicate health that he was
taken out of school and sent abroad, where
he spent several years in travel and with
relatives in England. Returning home
with greatly improved health, and having
decided upon a mercantile life, he joined
forces in 1865 with James Marshall and
opened a clothing store at the corner of
Broad and Bridge streets, Newark, under
the firm name of Marshall & Ball, a name
that became a household word in Newark
and northern New Jersey. They prospered
in their new venture, and in a short time re-
moved their store to a more central part of
the city, choosing a site opposite the New
Jersey Central railroad station. These
quarters soon proving insufficient to accom-
modate their business, the young partners
moved to the present location, 807-810
Broad street. The history of Marshall &
Ball covering the period of 1865-1898 was
one of success and expansion. For thirty-
three years Mr. Ball gave it his strict per-
sonal attention, and incorporated into the
business the strong phases of his personal
character, honesty and square dealing. Re-
garding his personal honor as sacred, he
placed the same high valuation upon his
business honor, and "quality" became the
store motto. No article was placed on sale
that he could not conscientiously vouch for,
and to quality was added the "square deal"
with all patrons. On this foundation Mar-
shall & Ball built, and to this day adhere.
He was liberal m his treatment of employ-
ees, and as men proved their loyalty and
worth they were given profit sharing inter-
est in the business. He builded well, and
after half a century his work endures.

Mr. Ball was most kindly hearted and
genial in disposition, possessing the quality
of not only attracting friends but of hold-
ing them. He belonged to several clubs in
Newark, and was everywhere a social fav-
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affiliated with St. John's Lodge of Newark,
and held in the order, as in the business
and social world, the undivided love and
respect of his associates. His clubs were
the Essex, Republican, and Essex and New-
ark County Country Club of Orange, the
New York, Knickerbocker and Chelsea of
New York. In political faith a Republi-
can, he was one of the presidential electors
on the McKinley ticket in 1896.

His religious affiliation was with Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church, which he
served as vestryman. He gave liberally to
all worthy objects, and from whatever
angle his life may be viewed there is no
room for unfriendly criticism. He was a
wise, progressive business man, a public-
spirited citizen, a loyal friend, and consis-
tently faithful to all religious or moral ob-
ligations. He bore well his part in the
development of his city, and rendered to
every man his due.

Two hundred and three years after his
great-great-great-great-grandfather, Ed-
ward Ball, married Abigail Blatchley, in
Connecticut, James T. Ball returned to the
same State for his bride, and on Decem-
ber 2, 1868, he married, at Stamford, Mary
F., daughter of Thomas and Caroline
Dunn. He married (second) Mary Eliz-
abeth, daughter of George B. Jenkinson. of
Newark. Children, all by first wife: i.
James Marshall, deceased. 2. Elizabeth.
3. Mary Isabel, married - - Gifford. 4.
Florence Louise, deceased. 5. Frederick
W., who continues the business of Marshall
& Ball ; he married Bertha Duren, daugh-
ter of George B. and Elizabeth Duren,
there are two sons — James T. and Freder-
ick W. Jr. 6. Elsie, youngest child of
James T. Ball, is deceased.

NELSON, William,

Lawyer, Historian, Litterateur.

"An open book to him New Jersey lay,
The annals of her fortune fairly writ;

A scene each page by fact or fancy lit,
Wherein their parts did many actors play;

He mark'd the Pilgrim founder win his way

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Amid the wild with piety and wit :
The Redman saw beyond the mountain flit,
Yet learned his language, and his simple lay.

"Or colony or sovereign State, he knew
Her laws, her legends and her noted men ;

Her roads he saw by stage and motor-car
Travers'd, and how canal and railway grew —

The leaves were turn'd till twilight fell, and then
He clos'd the book, and life's full calendar."

The above beautiful lines by Joseph F.
Folsom are a fitting introduction to a re-
view of the life of the late William Nelson,
a man whose name is known throughout
the country. In matters of biography,
local history and genealogy he was con-
sidered an authority, and in this connec-
tion was in constant correspondence with
men and women in every State in the
Union. From his earliest youth these
fields contained matter of interest to him.
and in the course of time he had so identi-
fied himself with his research work that he
became an expert of high standing. But
it was not with these matters alone that
Mr. Nelson was identified. On questions
of religion he was equally well verged, and
in matters of charity and philanthropy
there was no more enthusiastic worker.

William Nelson, son of William and
Susan (Cherry) Nelson, and grandson of
Thomas and Jane (Coulter) Nelson, was
born February 10, 1847, and died August
10, 1914. The public schools of Newark,
New Jersey, furnished him with educa-
tional advantages, and he was graduated
from the high school in the class of 1862.
His literary ability was already noticeable
during his school years, and he was chosen
as one of the editors of the high school
paper, for which he wrote a story entitled
"Isabel, a Tale of the Mexican Banditti."
which he reprinted in 1884. He was but
sixteen years of age when he became a
reporter on "The Daily Advertiser." He
then spent two years in teaching English
in the German schools in Newark and
South Orange, and in 1865 he taught a dis-
trict school at Connecticut Farms, now
Union. Removing to Paterson, New Ter-

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sey, on June 19, 1865, that city was his
place of residence from that time until his
death. He became a reporter on the staff
of "The Paterson Press," giving his at-
tention to this vocation for a period of ten
years, during which time he utilized his
spare moments in the study of the law, a
study he later continued in the office of the
Hon. John Hopper. His studies not hav-
ing been pursued regularly, it was not
until 1878 that Mr. Nelson was admitted
to the bar, but in the meantime he had
been of great service to his city owing to
his knowledge of the law, and had become
a public man of no mean reputation. In
April, 1868, he was elected a member of
the Paterson Board of Education. In
1869 he drafted a supplement to the city
charter, altering the provisions relating to
the Board of Education; and in 1871 he
drew up on original lines a new charter for
the city, which for the most part is still
in operation. In May. 1871, he was elect-
ed clerk of the Passaic County Board of
Chosen Freeholders, and was re-elected
annually until 1894. In 1877 he was ap-
pointed clerk of the Paterson District
Court, holding this office for ten years.
Tn 1902 he was appointed United States
Commissioner, an office he held for twelve
years, during which time many noted
counterfeiters and offenders were haled be-
before him. His resignation from this of-
fice was on account of failing health. On
numerous occasions he was honored by
being selected as delegate to National,
State. Congressional and local conventions
of the Republican party. At the Republi-
can National Convention at Chicago, Mr.
Nelson was the first officer of the conven-
tion to announce to General Benjamin Har-
rison his nomination for the presidency.

Yet all these demands upon his time did
not prevent his taking an active part in
the development of the religious, social,
historical and literary circles of the city.
For many years Mr. Nelson served on
the advisory board of the Paterson Gen-

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eral Hospital, and he was also a trustee of
the Pennington Methodist Seminary. His
religious membership was with the First
Presbyterian Church, on Main street, and
in this he served as elder and as clerk of
the session. In 1893 was printed "The
First Presbyterian Church of Paterson,
New Jersey," being compiled by Mr. Nel-
son from records of the church running
from 1813 to 1891. Later he became a
member of the Presbyterian Church of the
Redeemer, on Broadway. As a teacher of
a Bible class, his expounding of the Scrip-
tures, and his faithful, conscientious in-
struction, gained a large attendance.
Throughout his life his interest in church
affairs was an active one, and this was
evident in the support he gave to the Sun-
day vesper services on Half Moon Bay,
Thousand Islands, where he was accus-
tomed to spend his summers. Following
is a communication received after the
death of Mr. Nelson :

"One of the spots which Mr. Nelson loved best
was the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence
river. Here for the past fifteen years he spent
his summer months at his home on Cherry Island,
one of the beautiful islands on the Canadian side
of the St. Lawrence. He greatly enjoyed the
simple, wholesome life which did much during
the past few seasons to restore his failing
strength, but after the summer of nineteen hun-
dred and twelve his physician advised his not
going so far from home. This was a great dis-
appointment to Mr. Nelson, and only the night
before he died he remarked that if he could get
to Cherry Island he would feel well on the road
to recovery.

"A beautiful and unique feature of the life on
the St. Lawrence is the Sabbath evening service
which is held in Half Moon Bay, a sheltered nook
with overhanging rocks and a veritable nature's
temple. Here the islanders gather, remaining in
their boats, while a simple service is conducted
by a noted divine, and sometimes by a layman,
from a rough rock pulpit on the shore.

"When the news of Mr. Nelson's death reached
the friends and neighbors in the Thousand Isl-
ands, a very simple and beautiful memorial ser-
vice was held in Half Moon Bay. Mr. Edward
Dickson. of Toronto, conducted the service, from
which we quote the following: 'All who gather

here tonight know of Mr. Nelson's deep interest
in and great enjoyment of this beautiful feature
of our island life, and of how faithfully he al-
ways supported these services. Mr. Nelson was
a member of the committee having the services
in charge, and often secured the supplies for the
pulpit and frequently took the service himself.
One summer, while all the other members of the
committee were away, Mr. Nelson became re-
sponsible for all the work connected with these
gatherings. We all knew him and loved him,
and we shall greatly miss him from our Island
circle, especially when we gather here, and al-
ways when we sing, as we shall now do in closing
this simple memorial service, Mr. Nelson's fav-
orite evening hymn :

" 'Now the day is over, night is drawing nigh,
Shadows of the evening, steal across the sky,

Jesus, grant the weary, calm and sweet repose,
With Thy tenderest blessings, may mine eyelids
close.' "

Mr. Nelson married, in 1872, Martha
Buckley, daughter of the late Mayor Ben-
jamin Buckley, of Paterson, New Jersey.
Mrs. Nelson died in 1885. On July 25,
1889, Mr. Nelson married Salome Wil-
liams Doremus, daughter of Henry C.
and Ann Eliza (Banta) Doremus, and his
home life was an exceptionally happy one.
True companionship and cheerful, sympa-
thetic co-operation were his in every phase
of his life, and the home was one of culture
and warm-hearted sociability. When ill
health overtook Mr. Nelson, the co-opera-
tion of his wife became especially valuable,
and this was given with an efficiency which
was invaluable. During the last summer
of his life, Mr. Nelson was too ill to bear
the long trip to the St. Lawrence and the
benefit of mountain air was sought at
Matamoras, Pennsylvania, where he pass-
ed away in August, and was buried in
Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson. The
expressions and tokens of love, respect
and sympathy were innumerable and sin-
cere, and many found their way into print.
As an example of what Mr. Nelson was in
his home life, a letter by his former sten-
ographer. Miss Ella M. Hill, is quoted in
part : "Often, in my own home and to
others, I have made the remark that a
stenographer had an excellent opportunity

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to know the man by whom she was em-
ployed, and I have always been proud to
say that in the four and a half years that
I spent in Mr. Nelson's office, I never saw
one thing that was not absolutely gentle-
manly and honorable."

Mr. Nelson was connected with numer-
ous organizations of varied scope and
character, either as a corresponding, hon-
orary or regular member ; among the lat-
ter we find the following : New Jersey
Historical Society, Washington Associa-
tion of New Jersey, American Historical
Association, American Bar Association,
Revolutionary Memorial Society of New
Jersey, American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, American Anthro-
pological Association, American Biblio-
graphical Society, American Folk- Lore
Society, American Antiquarian Society.
New York Historical Society, Pennsyl-
vania Historical Society, Alabama His-
torical Society, Minnesota Historical So-
ciety, New England Historical and Gen-
ealogical Society, New York Genealogical
and Biographical Society, Hamilton Club
of Paterson, Drawing Room Club of Pat-
erson, Nassau Club of Princeton, Grolier
Club of New York, Carteret Book Club
of Newark, Bibliophile Society of Boston,
Brothers of the Book, and the Ganonoque,
Ontario, Yacht Club. All of these bodies
sent resolutions of sympathy at the time
of his death.

While a part of the literary work of Mr.
Nelson consists of legal essays, the bulk
of it has to do with historical, biograph-
ical, ethnological and antiquarian subjects.
A great number of his publications were
first given to the world in the form of ad-
dresses before learned bodies, among
these being: "Alexander Hamilton in
New Jersey,'' which was originally read
before the Washington Association of
New Jersey, in Morristown. February 22,
1897 ; "Life of William Colfax." was read
before the New Jersey Historical Society,
January 10, 1876; "Discovery and Early

History of New Jersey," was read before
the Passaic County Historical Society,
June ii, 1872. His contributions to the
press were frequent, and mainly related to
historical subjects. The Paterson History
Club published a number of his pamphlets.
The last large publication which bore his
name was "Nelson's Biographical Cyclo-
pedia." issued in two volumes in 1913, by
The Eastern Historical Publishing Com-
pany of New York. Works of this nature
become indispensable to those engaged in
genealogical, biographical or historical
work, and this Cyclopedia is one of an ex-
ceptionally high standard. Among the
monograph writings of Mr. Nelson we
find : "Summary of the Law of New Jer-
sey in Relation to Public Bridges," "Early
Will-Making in New Jersey," "The Law
of Marriage and Divorce in New Jersey/'
"Jos. Coerten Hornblower, Chief Justice
of New Jersey 1832-1846," "Clifford Stan-
ley Sims — Soldier, Statesman, Jurist,"
"Genealogy of the Doremus Family in
New Jersey," "The Indians of New Jer-
sey,'' and "Indian Personal Names in New
Jersey."

Mr. Nelson was elected a member of the
New Jersey Historical Society in 1872,
and in June of that year he read before
the Passaic County Historical Society one
of his first papers, "Discovery and Early
History of New Jersey." From that time
until his death, he never lost his enthusi-
asm in collecting, preserving, and present-
ing all phases of New Jersey history. His
essays on this subject have become stand-
ard references, and for many years he has
been regarded as an authority on all mat-
ters connected with the history of New
Jersey. In 1880 he was elected to suc-
ceed Adolphus P. Young as recording sec-
retary of the society, and, while the in-
cumbent of this office, commenced editing
ihe Archives of the State of New Jersey,"
bringing out Volume IX of the First
Series in 1885, in association with Fred-
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In 1890 Mr. Nelson was elected corres-
ponding secretary of the society, an office
he held continuously until his death, dur-
ing this time corresponding with people all
over this country, and with many in for-
eign lands. In 1890 he also again collab-
orated with Judge Ricord, bringing out
Volumes XIII, XIV and XV, containing
the "Journal of the Governor and Council
of New Jersey." Being then engaged in
other work, he allowed Judge Ricord to
carry on the work alone to Volume XIX,
but Mr. Nelson brought out Volume XI
in 1894, this commencing a series of vol-
umes devoted to extracts from American
newspapers relating to New Jersey, and
this was followed by Volume XII. With
but few breaks, this series, commenced in
1704, has been brought up to 1780, the
manners and customs of New Jersey dur-
ing this period being shown in, most avail-
able form. The activity of Judge Ricord
in connection with this work ceased in
1893, and Mr. Nelson edited the succeed-
ing volumes alone, the one most frequent-
ly consulted being Volume XXIII, pub-
lished in 1911, and containing his "Ab-
stracts of Wills." In 1895, when the His-
torical Society celebrated its fiftieth an-
niversary. Mr. Nelson, as corresponding
secretary, published his "Semi-Centennial
Celebration," as Volume VIII of the Col-
lections of the Society, and it is the only
volume edited or compiled by him. He
has, however, aided in the compilation and
editing of the "Proceedings of the So-
ciety" since 1885.

He was a tireless and conscientious
worker, and every letter was answered,
however trifling the communication might
have been. His colleagues on the board
of trustees remember with pleasure the
monthly reports of his labors in corres-
ponding, how in detail and in variety they
abounded in information, the best of which
was annually presented in a full report to
the society, and later printed in the "Pro-
ceedings." During the last weeks of his

life, when other earthly interests com-
menced to fade, those of his historical
work still remained with him, and were
able to lighten his hours of pain to a cer-
tain extent. It was the endurance of Wil-
liam Nelson in the field of history that
won for him recognition and reputation
that makes it a pleasure for his surviving
contemporaries to crown his memory with
love and honor. While the limits of this
article make it impossible to reprint all the
resolutions which were offered at the time
of the death of Mr. Nelson, we quote from
two of them :

In the death of William Nelson, August 10,
1914, the New Jersey Historical Society suffers
an unusual loss. Men may come and men may
go and the world still moves, yet there are
spheres in which the loss of but one active spirit
may appreciably slacken the wheels of progress.
Such a world is our Society and such a spirit
was that of our departed corresponding secretary.

His place was unique, because in himself were
the peculiar qualities and efficiencies which made
his office prominent and useful not only in New
Jersey historical circles but throughout the
United States. His efficiency as a local historian
was the result of years of research, investigation
and authorship. His knowledge of original
sources was intimate, his zeal for discovering
facts was inextinguishable, and his publications
make an extensive bibliography.

The by-products of his talents would make, if
printed, a large library, a small part only of which
may be found in the annual reports presented to
this Society in the form of answers to inquiries.
Add to this mass of information his verbal com-
ments and answers to endless queries and the
imagination halts in wonder.

Recognizing the vast range of knowledge which
Mr. Nelson had covered, and his valuable literary
contributions to the state of New Jersey and to
historical research in general. Princeton Univer-
sity conferred upon him in 1896 the degree of
A. M., and an alcove in the University Library
was named "The Nelson Alcove," in honor of
his historical and literary contributions.

Some later and more extended tribute will de-
tail the labors of William Nelson ; the intent of
this minute is briefly to express for the Society,
its officers and members, that deep regret and sin-
cere appreciation which his passing compels.

His many excellent qualities and his relations
to domestic, social, political, professional and re-

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ligious circles are best known to his former as-
sociates. To the New Jersey Historical Society-
he is best known as a historian, and a kindly,
obliging and faithful officer. The work done by
him as editor of the Archives and of the Pro-
ceedings will stand as long as the Society en-
dures.

The officers and members of the Society, re-
membering with gratitude the services of this ef-
ficient beloved officer, desire to express to his be-
reaved wife Mrs. Nelson their sincere sympathy,
and to assure her of their trust that she may be
comforted and sustained by Him who ruleth all
things, however painfully, for our good.

FREDERICK A. CANFIELD.
J. LAWRENCE BOGGS,
JOSEPH F. FOLSOM.
Committee on Resolutions.

Resolved, That the Bar Association of Passaic
County desires herewith to record its sense of
loss arising from the death of the late William
Nelson, which occurred during the past summer
vacation, and who for many years was a well
known member of the Bar of Passaic County ; as
well as to record its recognition of the many fine
qualities possessed by our deceased member as a
lawyer, and the learning and ability which he de-
voted to the affairs of his clients entrusted to his
care; and

Be it further resolved, That these resolutions
be spread in full upon the minutes of the Asso-
ciation, and also upon the minutes of the Passaic
County Circuit Court.

WILLIAM A. SUMNER,
FREDERICK W. VAN BLARCOM,
PETER J. McGiNNis,

Committee on Resolutions.

RANKIN, John Chambers, Jr.,

Man of Affairs, Public Official.

New Jersey is justly proud of the purity of
"her public record, and of the fact that the
monster. Fraud, rarely dares appear within
the confines of her government. This state
of affairs is created and maintained only by
the constant vigilance and unwearied labors
of public-spirited citizens — citizens of the
type of the late John Chambers Rankin,
Jr., ex-mayor of Elizabeth. His interest in
all matters relative to the city's welfare was
deep and sincere, and wherever substantial
aid would further public progress it was
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business mind, combined with progressive
ideas, made his assistance in city affairs in-
valuable.

His father, Rev. John Chambers Rankin,
was a Presbyterian missionary to Hindoo-
Stan, India, and married Sarah Trimble
Comfort, a daughter of Rev. David Com-
fort, for half a century pastor of the Pres-
byterian church at Kingston, New Jersey.
Mr. and Mrs. Rankin lived at Simla, Hin-
doostan, many years, all their children being
born there. Among them, in addition to
ex-Mayor John Chambers Rankin. were:
Walter L., who was at one time principal
of School No. I, Elizabeth, New Jersey,
president of Carroll College, Waukesko,
Wisconsin, died July 20, 1910; Sarah T.,
who married Robert T. Arrowsmith, of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Rev. Edward P.,
pastor of the Presbyterian church at Shaw-
ano, Wisconsin. Upon his return to this
country, Rev. Rankin became the pastor
of Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church,
and was the incumbent of this for a period
of forty-four years. He died in 1900.

Ex-Mayor John Chambers Rankin Jr.
was born in Simla, Hindoostan. July 15,
1847, and died at the Elizabeth General
Hospital, after an operation for the remov-
al of cancer, March 20. 1903. He became
a student at the Basking Ridge Academy,
where he received his preparation for a uni-
versity career. He then matriculated at
Princeton University, becoming a member
of the class of 1867, but left this institution
in 1866, preferring to devote his energies
to business life for which he felt himself
well fitted. The results he achieved proved
the correctness of this action. In Septem-
ber of 1867 he accepted a position in the
stationery and printing establishment of
William H. Arthur, at the corner of Liber-
ty and Nassau streets. New York City, and
was later associated in the same line of bus-
iness with E. Wells Sackett. This associa-
tion proved so profitable a one to the firm
that, in January, 1881, Mr. Rankin was ad-
mitted as a member of it, the style being

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changed to E. Wells Sackett & Rankin.
Subsequently Mr. Rankin purchased the in-
terests of the senior partner, and became
the sole proprietor of the business, which
he reorganized in January, 1891, under the
corporation laws of the State of New Jer-
sey, the concern being known as the John
C. Rankin Company. They located at No.
34 Cortlandt street, New York City, and
it is one of the largest printing and station-
ery houses in the city. The business abili-
ties of Mr. Rankin were in request in many
other directions, and he served as a direc-
tor of the Union County Trust Company,
Elizabeth.

To give a full account of the public ser-
vices of Mr. Rankin would necessitate giv-
ing the public history of the city for almost
a quarter of a century in detail. From the
time he attained his majority he was an ac-
tive worker in the interests of the Repub-
lican party. His public career commenced
with his election to the Board of Education
in 1877, by the Republicans of the Fourth
Ward. He served three terms in this hon-
orable body, was president of the Board in
1879 ar>d 1880, and introduced many bene-
ficial innovations. Elected a member of the
City Council in 1881, he served seven years
in that body, during four of which he was
president of the council. He was elected
mayor of the city in 1889, and served eight
and a half years, and guided the city safe-
ly through some of its most trying days.
Of his line of conduct while at the head of
city affairs. Mr. Frank Bergen has the fol-
lowing to say :

I was associated for more than ten years with
Mr. Rankin, in the service of the city, through
a very trying period of the city's history, and I
learned to know him well. He was a brave and
forceful man. I never knew anyone more loyal
to a cause or to a friend than he. His eagerness
to accomplish his objects sometimes led him to
make exertions too great even for his strength.
He was too generous to spare himself, even
when there seemed to be no great necessity for
extremely hard work. This was particularly so
in his discharge of his duties as a public official.

In any community such a man as Mr. Rankin
would soon and very naturally become a leader,
and it is a comfort to his friends to remember
that his work for the city was marked by a high
degree of intelligence and a full measure of suc-
cess. As a member of the City Council and pres-
ident of that body, during the years when the
city government seemed about to fall to pieces
under the pressure of financial burdens, he was
full of resources, and tireless not only in work-
ing himself, but in urging others to do all in their
power to extricate the city from its embarrass-
ment. He tried to apply to the city's affairs the
same business methods whereby he succeeded in
his own business, and the result was beneficial
and gratifying.

Mr. Rankin was appointed a member of
the State Board of Assessors, by Governor
Voorhees, in January, 1901, and in 1902-
was chosen president of the board, an office
of which he was the incumbent at the time
of his death. His term would have ex-
pired, January 29, 1905. The only time
that Mr. Rankin was defeated in a political
contest was in 1893, for the office of State
Senator for Union County, when Fred C.
Marsh was elected. The religious affilia-
tion of Mr. Rankin was with the Westmin-
ster Presbyterian Church, of Elizabeth, of
which he was a member. He was a mem-
ber of many organizations, among them
being : Washington Lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, of which he was a past
master ; Court Columbus, Independent
Order of Foresters ; Mattano Club, of Eliz-
abeth ; Elizabeth Town and Country Club ;
Suburban Golf Club, Unionville, New Jer-
sey; Baltusrol Golf Club, Raltusrol, New
Jersey ; all of these organizations placing
their flags at half mast at the time of the
death of Mr. Rankin, and formulating suit-
able resolutions.

Mr. Rankin married in Belvidere. New
Jersey, November 29, 1870. Anna Alethea,
a daughter of Samuel Tyler and Ann Pin-
ner (Freeman) Dickinson, and made his
home in Elizabeth, to which city he had
removed in 1869. They had children:
Anna, born August 20, 1871. died the same
day ; Edna Dickinson, born September 16,

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1873, widow of George W. Rogers; Nellie
Ives, born August 21, 1875, wife of James
Leon Alexander ; Mabel Norton, born Jan-
uary 5, 1878, died August 16, 1889; Anna
Alethea, born October 16, 1881, wife of
Ralph Manning Brown ; Ethel Rumple,
born November 8, 1883, wife of James
Burke Irwin.

No better estimate can be given of the
character of Mr. Rankin than that express-
ed by ex-Governor Voorhees, a few ex-
tracts from which are here given :

Few men succeed in so strongly impressing
their personality upon a community as did Mr.
Rankin. Few are better or more intimately
known by their associates. He made his influ-
ence felt by reason of the strength of his charac-
ter and his untiring labor. The estimation in
which he was held is best shown by repeated calls
to public office. In every position he distinguished
himself for his faithfulness and zeal for the pub-
lic good. His loyalty to the city was intense, and
his devotion to its interests unceasing. When
elected mayor he found the people despondent,
disheartened and discouraged. He filled them
with enthusiasm and a spirt of local self-pride
and helpfulness. His advent into office marked
the beginning of a new era in the city's growth
and improvement. The movement for its better-
ment he inaugurated under circumstances the
most trying and discouraging, and we feel today
the influence of his work.

In everything that he did he showed the same
characteristic, energy and high purpose. Obsta-
cles seemed only to arouse his energies, and yet
his was a tender and sympathetic heart. He was
generous, charitable and loyal to his friends.
Quick to respond to the cry of the needy and
eager to relieve the unfortunate. It was a strange
coincidence, and yet a fitting one, if he must needs
die, that death should come to him at the hos-
pital in which he had been so long interested,
and whose very existence depended upon his ef-
forts in its behalf. His charities — no one will
ever know. The eyes of many will glisten today
with the tear of sorrow and regret as they learn
of his death and recall his many kindnesses.

YARDLEY, Samuel Swan,

Enterprising Citizen.

Among the many families of promin-
ence whose names are inseparably con-

nected and associated with the State of
New Jersey from its early history to the
present time, is the Yardley family, a fami-
ly conspicuous for its men of sterling pro-
bity and integrity, eminent in business and
social circles, active and public-spirited,
both in church and state affairs, and whose
women have also brought the name into
deserved notice. The family is a large
one, and many branches are found in the
various States of the Union, particularly
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where
they have made the name conspicuous by
their achievements in the varied callings
chosen by them for their active careers,
and their records cast no shadow on the
untarnished name.

Samuel Swan Yardley, son of Charles
Rurleigh and Margaret Tufts (Swan)
Yardley, was born in South Orange, New
Jersey, December 5, 1873, and died in his
native city, March n, 1914. His mother,
an energetic, earnest and progressive wo-
man, has been an active factor in many of
the movements for the enlargement of use-
fulness of the women of New Jersey, and
under the auspices of the board of man-
agers of the Columbian Exposition, of
which she was a member, she made a col-
lection of the books and writings of the
women of New Jersey, amounting to over
four hundred published volumes, besides
considerable additional unpublished mat-
ter. She also compiled in two volumes a
choice selection from two hundred and
seventy authors who contributed news-
paper and magazine articles from time to
time, not previously published in book
form. These, together with all the other
volumes collected, were placed on exhibi-
tion in the women's department at the
World's Fair, and later were placed in
Trenton, the capital of the State, and in
recognition of her efforts in behalf of
the authors of New Jersey, she was award-
ed by the managing committee of the ex-
hibition a gold medal. For several de-
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Sorosis, the Women's Club, of Orange,
and the Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, in the latter named
organization having been honored by elec-
tion to the office of regent of the national
organization. In 1894 she organized the
New Jersey State Federation of Women's
Clubs, consisting of fifty-two women's lit-
erary and other clubs, of which she was
the president, and an exhibit of this work
was sent to the Atlanta Exposition.

Samuel Swan Yardley acquired his pre-
liminary education in Miss McKinnon's
school, the Dearborn Morgan school and
Mr. Bahler's school, in Orange, and then
pursued advanced studies at Andover Phil-
lips Academy, which he attended four
years and from which he was graduated,
and at Yale College, being forced to re-
linquish his studies there after a few
months, owing to impaired health, and
subsequently he pursued a special course
at Stevens Institute of Technology at Ho-
boken, New Jersey. Being thus thorough-
ly well equipped, he entered upon his ac-
tive career, engaging as chemist with a
well known firm of Newark, New Jersey,
W. Reuziehausen & Company, refiners of
gold and silver, with whom he remained
until his untimely death, in the prime of
life, his future bright with promise. He
WHS painstaking and conscientious in the
performance of his duties, characteristics
which are essential in every line of work,
and he was held in high esteem by his
employers, who valued his services high-
ly. He was a member of the New Jersey
Naval Reserve ; Hope Lodge. No. 124,
Free and Accepted Masons ; and the Paint
and Powder Club. He was also a con-
sistent member of Christ Church, East
G; ange, in which he took a keen interest
and an active part in the work of the var-
ious societies connected therewith. As
every true American citizen should do,
he kept well informed on the issues of the
day, and gave a loyal support to the prin-

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ciples in which he believed, and wherever
he was known he was held in the highest
regard by reason of his sterling worth
slid fidelity to principle.

Mr. Yardley married, April 18, 1900, in
Grace Church, Newark, Maria Dorothy,
daughter of Frederick William and Emma
(Beiderhass) Reuziehausen, of Newark.
One child, Frederick William, born Sep-
tember 7. 1902.

ORCUTT, Calvin Barber,

Financier, Active in Charitable Work.

A central figure in the business life of
Elizabeth, New Jersey, for many years,
Calvin Barber Orcutt owed the success
which crowned his efforts to his discre-
tion, his foresight and superior business
ability. His example was probably of
more benefit to mankind than that of he-
roes, statesmen and writers. In addition
to his extensive business interests, his en-
ergies were largely devoted to the further-
ance of many enterprises which had for
their object the uplifting of man and the
promulgation of higher standards among
humanity. Honorable in business, loyal
in citizenship, charitable in thought, kindly
in action, true to every trust confided to
his care, his life was the highest type of
Christian manhood. His parents, Phineas
C. and Sophronia (Barber) Orcutt, were
of old families of Vermont and Connecti-
cut, and inherited the sterling qualities of
a long line of English ancestors.

Calvin Barber Orcutt was born in
Wyoming, New York, September 5, 1847,
and died in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Janu-
ary 30, 1911. His elementary education
was acquired in the common school at
Wyoming, and he then worked his way
through the academy at Wyoming, known
as Millbury College. The curriculum at
this institution was but a limited one, and,
after his arrival in the city of New York,
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erage by himself, and thus fitted himself
for a higher position in the financial world.
For a time he was in the employ of a
drug house in New York City, but soon
formed a connection with Fisk & Hatch,
bankers, who dealt largely in government
securities. His faithful discharge of the
duties entrusted to him soon earned him
promotion. While this firm was financing
the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, the at-
tention of the late Collis P. Huntington
was attracted to Mr. Orcutt, and he select-
ed him to have charge of the marketing
of the coal produced along the route which
came to tidewater at Newport News, Vir-
ginia. Subsequently, when the legislature
compelled the separation of the coal busi-
ness from the railroad company, the Ches-
apeake & Ohio Coal Agency Company
was organized, with Mr. Orcutt as its
president. He was also one of the organ-
izers of the Newport News Ship Building
and Dry Dock Company; was president
of the Newport News Light and Water
Company ; and a director in the First Na-
tional Bank of Newport News, and the
Seaboard Transportation Company.

He was one of the founders of the Young
Men's Christian Association in Elizabeth,
and donated a fine gymnasium and locker
room in memory of his son. In addition
to this he paid the remaining debt of $7,000
still resting on the new building in Jersey
street. He served as president of the board
of trustees, and was president of the As-
sociation in 1909. He assisted in founding
the Elizabeth Rescue Mission in 1894, and
until his death gave liberally of both his
time and money towards its maintenance.
Another institution in which his co-opera-
tion and support were of inestimable bene-
fit was the Elizabeth General Hospital, of
which he was a director for more than fif-
teen years, and he was an active worker in
the interests of the Home for Aged Women
and the Orphan Asylum. He was a devout
member of the Second Presbyterian Church,

having united with this church by letter Oc-
tober 2, 1868, was an elder, and superinten-
dent of the Sunday school from June 16,
1875. He was ordained and installed a
ruling elder, October 30, 1887. He was
chairman of the finance committee of the
Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. He
was a member of the Chamber of Com-
merce of New York City ; New England
Society and the Congregational Society in
the City of New York; Society of Naval
Architects and Marine Engineers of New
York ; Lawyers' Club ; Automobile Club of
America ; Thousand Islands and Chippewa
Bay Yacht clubs, and numerous others.

Mr. Orcutt married, in North Granville,
New York. September 18, 1872, Harriet
M., a daughter of Addison and Sarah Me-
linda ( Wyeman ) Willett, and had children :
Mary Willett; Russell Barber, born Octo-
ber 12, 1883, died October i, 1901 ; Helen
Marguerite.

It is difficult to sum up in few words a
character of such dignity, sweetness and
beneficence as that of Mr. Orcutt. It can
perhaps best be accomplished by repeating
the tribute paid to his memory at his funeral
by his pastor and friend, the Rev. E. B.
Cobb, D. D., who said :

"I can think of no more appropriate words in
which to give expression to what I am sure you
all think, than the words of King David with ref-
erence to Abner, 'Know ye not that a prince and
a great man is fallen this day in Israel?' For Mr.
Orcutt was truly a prince and a great man. First
of all he had a 'Princely Mind.' God had richly
endowed him with that which for want of a bet-
ter name, we call brains. And this intellect with
which he had been endowed, had been cultivated
in one of the best of all schools, the school of ex-
perience. More quickly than most, he was able
to grasp the meaning of great problems, and to
work these problems out through all their intri-
cate details. And what he was able thus to grasp
and work out. he was able also to put down upon
paper and to express in speech, and his intellect
thus disciplined, he further developed by contin-
ually measuring up to still larger problems, and
by constant and judicious reading. He had a
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Indeed, if I should be called upon to state what in
my judgment was his most prominent character-
istic, I should at once name his big, warm, gen-
erous, tender and loving heart, a heart which al-
ways beat in sympathy with others, especially
with those who were in need, and which was con-
tinually impelling his mind to think of ways in
which to relieve this need, and his hands and his
feet and his purse to execute these ways. He
was a truly liberal man, not ready merely to give
when asked, but devoting much time and strength
also in devising new ways in which to give. In
the highest, richest, sweetest meaning of these
words, 'He was an ideal friend — he did a Prince-
ly Work.' If you should go to Newport News,
Virginia, where the strength of his business activ-
ity was expended, you would see there buildings,
organizations and institutions, which would at
once arrest your attention because of their size
and importance, which confessedly are the mon-
uments of his broad vision and indefatigable toil.
Or if, returning to this city, you should look into
the church in which he was a ruling elder, and
into the Sunday School of which for thirty-five
years he was the efficient superintendent, you
would see building, equipment, organization and
membership — another monument of his consecrat-
ed life. Or if you should cross the street to the
Young Men's Christian Association Building, you
would find a gymnasium, with all modern equip-
ment, fitted up by Mr. Orcutt in memory of a
young son of eighteen who preceded him into
glory a few years ago. Should you visit the Res-
cue Mission, or go to the Elizabeth General Hos-
pital, where he was one of its active managers for
many years, or any other charitable and philan-
thropic institutions of this city, you would find
them in all, to a greater or less degree, other
monuments of his generous thought. Or if you
should be permitted to look into the hearts of
many in this and other communities who have re-
cently suffered financial loss, or passed through
the deep waters of affliction, or in other ways
have been in distress, you would find enshrined
in them all the name of this good man who in
quiet yet numerous ways had ministered to them
in their time of need. He has left a 'Princely
Name.' A good name which is more to be de-
sired than riches — the name of a man who feared
God and kept His commandments — who loved his
fellow men and prayed unto God always — a name
which will grow brighter and brighter as removed
a little farther from him in time, we are the bet-
ter able to appreciate how great he really was."

These words describe the personal char-
acter of Mr. Orcutt most perfectly.

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BABBITT, Robert Oscar,

Lawyer, Man of Admirable Traits.

Robert Oscar Babbitt, of Jersey City,
whose long and active career at the bar
brought him into prominence throughout
the State of New Jersey, was born in Mend-
ham, Morris county, on the 5th of Novem-
ber, 1848, his parents being Robert Millen
Babbitt and Henrietta Jolley. On his fath-
er's side he was of English descent, and on
his mother's of French extraction.

He obtained his preparatory education
in the district schools and in the academy
of William Rankin at Mendham, and pre-
pared for Princeton, but did not enter the
university. He studied law for two years
with Frederick G. Burnham, of Morris-
town, and, removing to Jersey City in 1871,
entered the office of Potts & Linn. He was
admitted to the New Jersey bar as an at-
torney in February, 1873, and as a counsel-
lor in November, 1878. After his admis-
sion to practice, Mr. Babbitt became a mem-
ber of the firm of Potts & Linn, with whom
he had pursued his studies, and continued
this association, under the firm name of
Potts, Linn & Babbitt, for one year, after
which the firm was reorganized as Linn &
Babbitt, and so continued for seven years.
In 1882 he formed a partnership with Rob-
ert Linn Lawrence, which remained in ex-
istence until September, 1900, when it was
dissolved, Mr. Babbitt retiring in order to
devote his whole time and attention to his
large legal Spanish-American business,
which had been for many years his special-
ty. In the successful conduct of important
affairs in this field of practice, he achieved
a wide as well as a high reputation.

Mr. Babbitt died at Laredo, Texas, De-
cember 31, 1903, on the journey from the
city of Mexico to his home in New Jer-
sey, his death following an attack of pneu-
monia. He is survived by his wife, Mary
Elizabeth (McCrea) Babbitt, of an old
Orange county, New York, family, whom
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Robert Millen, Helen and Mary. Mr. Bab-
bitt was a member of the Lawyers' Club of
New York, and of the Carteret and Union
League clubs of Jersey City. He was in-
dependent in politics, and never accepted
public office.

No record of Mr. Babbitt's life would be
complete without an appreciation of his
character, and no better insight into this
can be found than in the following quota-
tions, the first from the pen of a friend and
associate in the City of Mexico, the second
from that of a lifelong friend in New Jer-
sey:

"Personally, he was a splendid specimen of an
American gentleman of the old school, courteous,
considerate, kindly, always brimming over with
the liveliest humor, and above all a conservative,
clear-headed business man."

"His was a very rich nature — rich in senti-
ment, in the feeling for the noble in art and litera-
ture and life, with a delight in the beautiful, wheth-
er in the character or in the works and words of
men. He had the passion of the artist for a fine
painting. He took exquisite enjoyment in the
writings not only of poets, but of essayists, think-
ers and philosophers. He surrounded himself
and enriched his home with many beautiful
works of art, and the priceless treasures of the
world's literature. Through his busy and la-
borious life he kept continuously drawing at these
fountains of noble sentiment and culture, and
thus made himself a most companionable and
stimulating man, charming with delightful talk,
full of quickening thoughts and memories of
those who have done and written great things in
the world.

"But his sentiment was not exhausted upon
beautiful things. He was rich in feeling for liv-
ing men, and sympathy for all human interests.
Full of admiration for whatever is fine and
worthy and unselfish in human character and ac-
tion : quick and ardent in sympathy and generosity
for noble causes that help the world and aim at
human good : compassionate and open-handed
toward whatever was pitiable or whomever was
in need. His heart was big and loving and
kind. In somewhat strange union with this
warmth and depth of sentiment in him, was a
masterful force of nature. He did things. He had
an unbreakable pertinacity of purpose. He had
an exhaustless fund of energy. He loved to ac-
complish things and he did accomplish them.
During the last few years of his life he did a

work which will put thousands of men directly or
indirectly in his debt for generations to come. He
was a builder-up, a man of large, useful, con-
structive affairs, who had in his power and gift
to leave a conspicuous world mark as the result
of his life."

MacILVAINE, Edward Shippen,

Civil War Veteran, Financier.

Edward Shippen Macllvaine, late of
Trenton, New Jersey, who was well known
in the world of finance, was a scion of an
old and distinguished family, whose history
is a most interesting one.

In the early part of the sixteenth century
the Makilvanes were large landed propri-
etors, powerful and influential. The es-
tates of Upper and Nether Grimet extend-
ed for many miles along the Doon. The
houses of Grimet were quite extensive, but
are now in ruins. The site, marked by
foundations and piles of cut stones, is own-
ed by the Marquis of Ailsa, Earl of Cassil-
lis. The ancient castle of Thomaston,
beautifully situated within sight of the
Firth of Clyde, opposite Ailsa Crag, was
acquired by the Makilvane family by mar-
riage. It was built by a nephew of King
Robert the Bruce, about 1335, who died
soon after its completion, when it was
possessed by the Corries of Kelwood.
Robert Corrie, and Euphan. his spouse,
daughter of Thomas Tortherwald, who
was slain at the battle of Durham, had a
charter from King David II. for the lands
of Cowlyn and Buchan in the county of
Dumfries. One of their descendants mar-
ried a Macllvaine, and brought with her
this magnificent castle in which the family
lived for several generations. It was pure
Norman in style, built of cut sandstone,
surrounded by a moat, with drawbridge
and portcullis, and was of remarkable
strength, as proved by the many long-con-
tested fights waged against its walls. In
the old statistical account, Thomaston is de-
scribed as one of the great places of the
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strong and of very considerable extent."
In the description of Carrick, in Ayrshire,
by Sir James Balfour, Lyon King at Arms,
is a list of "the most ancient gentrey, now
possessors thereoffe, as — Mackilvanes of
the House of Grimmat, Shaws of the
House of Keires, and Cathcarts, descendit
of the Housse of Carltone, Fergusons, of
the House of Kilkerrane, Corries, of the
Housse of Kelwood, Mures, of the Housse
of Muchemarrane, Mac Alexander, of the
Housse of Corstyre." Pitcairn frequently
mentions the "Makilvenes" as Lords of
"Grymet." They were allied by marriage
to several powerful families, among these
being the Kennedys. Through maternal
lines they have descent from the Bruce,
the royal Stewarts, the Maxwells and the
Montgomeries.

(I) Alan Makilvane was confirmed in
the possession of the lands of Grimet and
Attiquin by a charter from King James the
Fifth, October 10, 1529. He married,
about 1520, in Ayrshire, - - Kennedy, a
niece of the Earl of Cassilas. The Makil-
vanes had evidently come from the High-
lands to Ayr but a short time previously,
as the only reference made to them in that
locality was by Pitcairn, who mentions the
young laird of Attiquin in 1512. The orig-
inal name was Mac Beth, "son of the liv-
ing one," and they were a sept of the pow-
erful clan Chattin. The name was chang-
ed in various ways, that of the head of the
family now in Scotland being Mac Bean.
The coat-of-arms now registered in the of-
fice of the Lyon King of Arms at Edin-
burgh, about 1673, but borne much earlier,
is : Gules, two covered cups or, in chief, a
star argent. The emblem of the clan was a
sprig of boxwood, signifying "Live for-
ever." Alan Makilvane lived in turbulent
times ; of him this record has been found :
"July 28, 1528, Alan Makilvne, Laird of
Grymet, for not entereing his friend Gil-
bert Kennedy of Kirckmechell for slaugh-
ter of some of the Campbells uoo." There

i6r

was a bitter feud and much blood shed
between the Kennedys and the Campbells,
and concealing and protecting their accus-
ed friends was a necessity.

(II) Gilbert Macilvane, entered as Gil-
berto Mcllvene filio et haerdi Alan Mcll-
vene de Grumet, was killed in the battle of
Fawside. He married Janet Cory or Cor-
rie. and had a charter in confirmation of
his lands from Queen Mary, May 4, 1546.

The family of Corrie was one of
distinction in the sixteenth century.
"Thomas Corrie de Kelwood fined for not
entering Bargany for the slaughter of the
young laird of Attiquane Urn 15 12." The
same Thomas Corrie had a charter for
Kelwood from King James IV. in 1507.
The Corries had intermarried with the
families of Napier, Blair and Chalmers
before uniting with the Macllvaines.

(III) Sir Patrick Macllvaine, of Grim-
et, son of Gilbert and Janet (Cory or Cor-
rie) Macllvaine, became vested in his fath-
er's lands of Nether and Over Grimet and
Attyquyne, October 25, 1547. He fought
with the Earl of Cassillis at Lady Gorse,
in 1601, and was knighted on the field of
battle for bravery. He married Julianna
Schaw, of the Schaws of Leir, and died in
1613.

(IV) John Macllvaine, son of Sir Pat-
rick and Julianna (Schaw) Macllvaine,
had a charter granted him by King James
VI. in 1597, for his lands. He died before
his father, being killed at the battle of Lady
Gorse. It is recorded that at this battle
John Macllvaine received a fatal thrust by
falling down the bank upon his own
spear. Pitcairn says, however, "The young
laird of Grimak was struckin throu the chin
and he and horse boyth struckin to the
eird." He married - - Kennedy.

(V) John Macllvaine, son of John and
(Kennedy) Macllvaine, was living

in 1632. He married Anna Corrie, of the
Corries of Kelwood, who died in the year
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fice in Edinburgh. She inherited the es-
tates of her family by the death of her
brother.

(VI) John Macllvaine, son of John and
Anna (Corrie) Macllvaine, died Septem-
ber 21, 1669. He is believed to have mar-
ried - - Cunningham, niece of William,
Earl of Glencairn. She is mentioned in the
will of Quentin Macllvaine in connection
with his nephews, "the young sons of John
Macllvaine of Grimet." Quentin Macll-
vaine made disposition of Thomaston in
his will, but in a codicil stated that it was
no longer in his possession, having been
sold for ithe payment of fines and debts.

(VII) John Macllvaine, a son of John
and - - (Cunningham) Macllvaine, suc-
ceeded to Grimet, but with him the proper-
ty passed from the family as a result of
their being Convenanters. At this time re-
ligious persecutions forced the family to
take refuge for a short time in the North
of Ireland, making their home by the
shores of Loughneagh, in Ulster. Their
names are to be found on record as mem-
bers of the session of the Old Kirk until
1692, and their names appear on almost
all the documents signed by the gentry, and
known as the "Solemn League and Cove-
nant."

(VIII) Joseph Macllvaine, a son of
(probably) John Macllvaine, was born in
1700, and died in Ayr, in May, 1762. his
will being in the register's office in Edin^
burgh. He was a man of prominence and
influence in Ayr, holding positions of im-
portance. He married (first) June i, 1721,
Anna Rogerson, daughter of Thomas Rog-
erson, of Dumfries, descended from a fam-
ily of County Tyrone, Ireland, which de-
scended from Rory, son of Ruadbrigh, the
"red haired king." He married (second)
Jane, daughter of Adam Hunter, baillie of
Ayr. Children, all by the first marriage :
William, of further mention : David, born
September 22, 1723, married Elizabeth
Graydon ; John, born April 17, 1725; Eliz-
abeth, born June 5, 1726, married William

Gairdner ; Robert, born May 16, 1728;
Anna, born January 8. 1731, married, 1762,
John Fleming.

(IX) William Macllvaine, a son of
Joseph and Anna (Rogerson) Macllvaine,
was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, March 31,
1722, and died in Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, at his estate Fairview, near Bristol.
He and his brother David came to Ameri-
ca about 1745, and settled in Philadelphia,
where they were prominent as merchants
and ship owners. In one storm they lost
forty vessels. He was a charter member
of the Philadelphia Assembly in 1749, and
an elder of the First Presbyterian Church
from 1760 to 1770. In 1756 he was a mem-
ber of the "Independent Company of Foot,
Philadelphia," commanded by Captain John
Kidd. Some years prior to his death Mr.
Macllvaine retired from business and led
the life of a country gentleman at his home
in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. His will
is dated there, January 26, 1770, and prov-
ed, October 4, 1770. He appointed Wil-
liam Humphrey, of Philadelphia, executor.
Mr. Macllvaine married (first) Anne Em-
erson, daughter of Caleb and Mary
(North) Emerson, of Philadelphia. Mary
(North) Emerson, was a descendant of the
Right Honorable Dudley North, and of
Sir Edward North, treasurer and guardian
for Queen Elizabeth. The Emerson fam-
ily of Dtirham is descended from the
Counts of Habsbruck, tracing back several
generations before the Norman Conquest.
Mr. Macllvaine married (second) Mar-
garet Cross. Children, all by first marriage:
i. William, of further mention. 2. Jo-
seph, of "Bristol township, Bucks county,
gentleman." 3. Mary, married General
Joseph Bloomfield. Governor of New Jer-
sey, 1801, 1803-1812. He was born Octo-
ber 18, 1753. son of Dr. Moses and Eunice
Bloomfield, served as a surgeon in the Rev-
olutionary War ; attorney-general of New
Jersey ; brigadier-general : member of Con-
gress, 1817-1821 : died October 3, 1825.

(X) William Macllvaine. son of Wil-

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Ham and Anne (Emerson) Macllvaine,
was born in Philadelphia, July 8, 1750, and
died at his home in Burlington, New Jer-
sey, September 16, 1806. In 1766 he went
to Scotland, where he entered the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh, and received his degree
of Doctor of Medicine from this institu-
tion. He returned to America in 1773, and
resided in the family homes in Philadel-
phia and Bristol. He took an active part
in the Revolution from its very beginning,
and was captain of the Light Infantry As-
sociated Company, in Bristol, of which his
brother was major. July 4, 1776, it was
ordered by the Committee of Safety at
Philadelphia "That Captain Davis and
Captain Macllvaine be empowered and di-
rected to take up six shallops to transport
a battalion of troops from this city to Bor-
dentown, to sail tomorrow." William Mac-
llvaine was surgeon in Captain Read's reg-
iment in 1776. He was commissioned a
justice of the peace for Bucks county, Sep-
tember 7, 1784, and as a judge of the Court
of Common Pleas, September 10. 1784. Af-
ter his second marriage he removed to Phil-
adelphia, where he practiced his profession
until 1793. In that year of the yellow fever
epidemic he sent his family to Burlington,
New Jersey, for refuge from the scourge.
He remained in Philadelphia, true to his
calling, contracted the fever, and was nurs-
ed back to health by an old black servant.
He succeeded in keeping the fact of his ill-
ness from his family, but upon his restor-
ation to health, he joined them in Burling-
ton, and was a resident practitioner there
until his death. While living in Philadel-
phia he was a regular attendant at the First
Presbyterian Church, but in Bristol and
P>urlington he attended the Episcopal
church, and h\> children were baptized in
it.

Dr. Macllvaine married (first) Novem-
ber 6, 1773, Margaret Rodman, born Sep-
tember 20, 1752, died February 22, 1881,
a daughter of Judge William and Mary
(Reeve) Rodman, of "Flushing," Bucks

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county, Pennsylvania, and a granddaugh-
ter of John Reeve, of Burlington, New Jer-
sey. He married (second) Rebecca Cox,
born February 3, 1760, died September

13, 1783, daughter of William Cox, Esq.
He married (third) Mary Shippen, born
August 15, 1757, died March 14. 1831, a
daughter of Edward Shippen, chief justice
of Pennsylvania, and his wife, Margaret
(Francis) Shippen. Dr. Macllvaine and
his second and third wives were buried in
St. Mary's churchyard, Burlington. By the
first marriage there were children: r.
Mary Anne, born August 10, 1774, died
May 30, 1814; married, December 7, 1811,
General Jonathan Rhea. 2. Rachel, died
November 16, 1720; married Dr. John
Ruan. 3. Hannah, died in infancy. 4.
Elizabeth, died in infancy. Children by
third marriage : 5. William, born May 2,
1786, died August 9, 1854. 6. Edward
Shippen, of further mention. 7. Marga-
ret, born November 25, 1788, died January

14. 1864. 8. Joseph B., born January 15,
1790, died July 14. 1847; married Mary
Anne Murray. 9. Mary, died unmarried,
December 7. 1869.

Edward Shipnen. great-great-grandfath-
er of Mary (Shippen) Macllvahie, was
born in Yorkshire, England, in 1639. He
was president of the Provincial Council of
Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Ly-
brand.

Joseph, son of Edward Shippen. of Phil-
adelphia, was born in Boston, February
28, 1678-9. "He was among the men of
science of his day. and in 1727, he joined
Dr. Franklin in founding the Junto, 'for
mutual information and public good.' " He
died in Germantown. Philadelphia, in June,
1741. He married (first) July 28, 1702,
Abigail Grosse, and (second) Rose Budd,
widow of John McWilliams and of Charles
Plumley.

fudge Edward Shippen. "of Lancaster,"
son of Joseph and Abigail (Grosse) Ship-
oen, was born in Boston, July 9, 1703. He
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Logan, and was associated in business with
him in 1732, under the style of Logan &
Shippen. In 1749 he was associated with
Thomas Lawrence, in the fur trade, the
firm doing business under the name of
Shippen & Lawrence. For many years he
served in the City Council, was mayor of
Philadelphia in 1744, and judge of the
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in
1749 and 1750. He removed to Lancaster
in May, 1752, was there appointed pro-
thonotary, and filled this office until 1778.
He had large transactions as paymaster for
supplies for the British and Provincial for-
ces, when commanded by General Forves,
General Stanwix and Colonel Bouquet,
and managed them with so much integrity
as to receive public thanks in 1760. He
served as county judge under the Provin-
cial and State governments. In early life
he laid out Shippensburg. In 1748-49 he
was one of the founders of the College of
New Jersey, and was a member of the first
board of trustees, holding this position un-
til his resignation in 1767. He was a fine
French scholar, and was one of the sub-
scribers to the Philadelphia Academy, later
the University of Pennsylvania. His death
occurred in Lancaster, September 25, 1781.
Judge Shippen married (first) September
20, 1725, Sarah Plumley, born November
8, 1706, died April 28, 1735, a daughter of
Charles and Rose (Budd) Plumley. He
married (second) in August, 1747, Mary,
widow of John Nowland.

Chief Justice Edward Shippen, son of
Judge Edward and Sarah (Plumley) Ship-
pen, was born in Philadelphia, February
16, 1728-9, and died in that city, April 16,
1806. He was admitted to the Middle
Temple, London, in 1749, and was admit-
ted to practice as a barrister in 1750. No-
vember 22, 1752, he was appointed judge
of the Admiralty Court in Philadelphia; in
1765 he was appointed prothonotary of the
Supreme Court; December 12, 1770, ap-
pointed a member of the Governor's Coun-
cil; May i, 1784, appointed judge of the

Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia;
September 16, 1784, judge of the High
Court of Errors and Appeals; in 1785,
elected a justice of the Dock Ward ; Octo-
ber 4, 1785, appointed president of the
Court of Quarter Sessions and General
Jail Delivery; January 29, 1791, appointed
an associate judge of the Supreme Court,
an office he filled until 1799, when he was
appointed Chief Justice, and held this of-
fice until his death, April 16, 1806. Judge
Shippen married, in Christ Church, Phila-
delphia, November 29, 1753, Margaret,
born in Talbot county, Maryland, August
I7< !735' died in Philadelphia, May 28,
1794, a daughter of Tench Francis, attor-
ney-general of Pennsylvania, and Eliza-
beth (Turbett) Francis.

(XI) Edward Shippen Macllvaine, son
of Dr. William and Mary (Shippen) Mac-
llvaine, was born in Philadelphia, October
I, 1787, and died September 13, 1843. In
young manhood he became a resident of
Hunterdon county, New Jersey, and was
a representative for the county in the Gen-
eral Assembly from 1830 to 1835. For
some years prior to his death he was de-
barred from taking an active part in pub-
lic life by gout, from which he was a great
sufferer. He was commissioned first lieu-
tenant of the First Battalion of Cavalry,
First Regiment of Hunterdon county, New
Jersey, militia, May 13, 1815. In 1824,
while an aide-de-camp to his uncle, Gover-
nor Bloomfield, he escorted General La
Fayette from Princeton to Trenton, dur-
ing the latter's visit to America. Mr. Mac-
llvaine married, October 21, 1812, Esther
Rodman, born June 29, 1791, died Octo-
ber 17, 1860, a daughter of William and
Esther (West) Rodman. She was widely
known for her beauty and brilliant mind,
was with her brother-in-law, J. Clancy
Jones, while he was envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary to Austria,
and was present at the coronation of Fran-
cis Joseph. Her letters of that time, and
her poems, have great literary merit. Mr.

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and Mrs. Macllvaine had one child : Wil- Jersey. He was elected judge of the Court

liam Rodman, of further mention.

William Rodman, father of Esther
(Rodman) Macllvaine, was born at
"Flushing," Bensalem township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, in October, 1757,
and died there, July 27, 1824. He was a
son of William and Mary (Reeve) Rod-
man, and a grandson of Dr. John and
Mary (Willett) Rodman, of Burlington,
New Jersey. May 23, 1778, William Rod-
man took the affirmation of allegiance and
fidelity to the State of Pennsylvania, di-
rected by the Act of 1777, and for this he
was "disowned" by the Society of Friends.
October 4, 1781, he was appointed brigade
quartermaster of the militia, under Briga-
dier-General Lacey, stationed at New-
town, Pennsylvania, and served until the
militia was disbanded shortly prior to the
close of the Revolutionary War. He was
a justice of the peace for Bucks county
from 1791 to 1800, when he resigned his
commission to take his seat in the Senate
of Pennsylvania. There his career was a
prominent one, as chairman of a number of
important committees, and twice he receiv-
ed a large vote for the speakership. After
four years' service in the Senate he de-
clined re-election. He was elected to Con-
gress in 1810, taking his seat at the extra
session, November 4, 1811, and his service
ended with the Twelfth Congress, March
3, 1813, which was the Congress which de-
clared war against Great Britain. In 1799
he served as captain of dragoons in the
service of the United States for the sup-
pression of the "Fries" insurrection in
Northampton county, Pennsylvania ; was
a presidential elector in 1809, and cast his
vote for James Madison.

(XII) William Rodman Macllvaine,
son of Edward Shippen and Esther (Rod-
man) Macllvaine, was bom in Ewing
township, Hunterdon (now Mercer) coun-
ty, New Jersey, December 10, 1820. He
Ived on the homestead during the early
part of his life, and later in Trenton, New

of Common Pleas of Mercer county by a
joint meeting of the Legislature in 1853 ;
re-elected in 1858 and in 1863, serving fif-
teen years. He was a senior warden of
St. Michael's Episcopal Church, in Tren-
ton. His career was one of great useful-
ness, and he was always known as a pure-
minded, honest and upright citizen. He
married. May 11, 1842, Christina Reeder
Scudder, born October 26, 1823, died at
Trenton, February 18, 1894. Children:

1. Edward Shippen, of further mention.

2. Jasper Scudder, born May 20, 1844, was
graduated with first honors at Princeton.
He became a Presbyterian minister, and
died while a missionary in China, Febru-
ary 2, 1881. 3. Maria, born February 12,
1849, cued unmarried, October 12, 1868.
4. Francis Rodman, born July 12, 1855,
died August 7, 1856.

Jasper Smith Scudder, father of Chris-
tina Reeder (Scudder) Macllvaine, was
born in 1797, died October 20, 1877. His
ancestors came to New Jersey from Long
Island in 1709. He was paying teller of
the Trenton Bank for about thirty years ;
treasurer of the State Hospital from the
time it was built until shortly before his
death ; and was the first president of the
Mechanics' Bank of Trenton.

(XIII) Edward Shippen Macllvaine,
son of William Rodman and Christina
Reeder (Scudder) Macllvaine, was born
in Ewing township. Mercer county, New
Jersey, March 28, 1843, and died in Tren-
ton, New Jersey, January 8, 1910. He was
graduated from the Lawrenceville School
in 1858, and entered Princeton College as
a sophmore and a member of the class of
1861. Ill health obliged him to interrupt
his studies, and he was traveling abroad
when the news of the outbreak of the Civil
War reached him. He at once returned to
this country and accepted a position under
Captain James F. Armstrong, commanding
the United States sloop-of-war "Jacinto,"
and later served on the "De Soto." He

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was one of the first volunteers in Company
A, Mercer Brigade, National Guard, during
the Civil War. He was the owner of a
fine plantation in North Carolina, and at
the close of the war spent five years on it.
Returning to the Macllvaine homestead in
1870, he lived there until 1883, then re-
moved to Trenton, where the remainder of
his life was spent. From 1887 to 1910 he
was treasurer of the Lawrenceville School ;
was treasurer of the Alumni Association
for many years ; treasurer of the Ameri-
can Bible Society and the Session of the
First Presbyterian Church of Trenton,
1886 to 1908 ; and was a director of the
Trenton Banking Company from 1900 to
1910, having been a charter stockholder of
this corporation. Following is a copy from
the records of this institution : "The di-
rectors of the Trenton Banking Company
desire to place on record the high appreci-
ation of the character and faithful services
of Mr. Edward Shippen Macllvaine whose
recent death has brought sincere grief to
all who were in any way associated with
him. Mr. Macllvaine was connected with
the Trenton Banking Company for ten
years, having been elected a director in
1900, and served the bank with unremit-
ting zeal and the utmost integrity from that
time until the day of his death. His lov-
able nature and fine character endeared
him to all with whom he came in contact."
Mr. Macllvaine married, March 28,
1866, Anne Belleville Hunt, daughter of
Captain William Edgar Hunt, United
States Navy. Children: i. Margaret Ship-
pen, married, June 12, 1889, John A. Roeb-
ling, civil engineer, son of Washington A.
Roebling and Emily (Warren) Roebling.
Washington A. Roebling was the builder
of the Brooklyn Bridge. Children : Sieg-
fried, Paul and Donald. 2. Anne, unmar-
ried, lives in Trenton. 3. Maria, married
Henry Van Kleeck Gillmore, son of Gen-
eral Quincy and Margaret Hardenburgh
("Van Kleeck) Gillmore. 4. Francis Ship-

pen, civil engineer, was graduated from
Princeton University in the class of 1904.

Commander William Edgar Hunt,
United States Navy, father of Mrs. Anne
Belleville (Hunt) Macllvaine, was born
at Lamberton, New Jersey, July 18, 1806,
a son of Peter and Maria (Furman) Hunt,
and a nephew of William Edgar, of New
York. He was an orphan at the age of
ten years, and a relative, Admiral Leroy,
was appointed his guardian. Six years
later Admiral Leroy secured his appoint-
ment as a midshipman from New Jersey in
the United States Navy. In 1831 he was
appointed acting master of the "John
Adams." June 21, 1832, he was commis-
sioned lieutenant, and in 1841, was appoint-
ed to special duty with Captain (later Com-
modore) Stockton, and was with him when
the gun exploded on the "Princeton,"
when many lives were lost. Although
Lieutenant Hunt was standing near Cap-
tain Stockton when the latter fired the gun,
he received no serious hurt. During the
Mexican War he was actively engaged in
the transportation of troops and ammuni-
tion to the coast of Mexico. In August,
1855, ne was commissioned commander,
and in 1859 was appointed to command the
"Levant" in the Pacific Ocean. In Septem-
ber, 1860, he was heard from, when the
"Levant" was at Honolulu, but as nothing
was heard of the vessel or of those on her
after that time, it is supposed that a severe
typhoon which occurred in that section
about that time, caused the destruction of
the ship and all on her.

Commander Hunt married (first) in
Trenton, May 29, 1833, Susan Elizabeth
Clarke, born June 21, 1810, died April 16,
1848, a daughter of Dr. James and Mary
(Belleville) Clarke. He married (second)
May 30, 1849, Annie Belleville Clarke, a
sister of his first wife. Children, all by the
first marriage : Moore Furman ; Annie,
died young; Sue, died young; James
Clarke; Virginia Higbee ; William, died

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young; Aubselue ; Anne Belleville, mar-
ried Edward Shippen Macllvaine, as
above stated.

Dr. James Clarke was born about 1787,
died February 20, 1847. He was a distin-
guished physician, his large practice lying
on both sides of the Delaware river. The
first American ancestor of his family was
a founder of Princeton University, and a
large landowner near there. He was de-
scended from the families of Middleton,
Johns. Fitzrandolph and Blossom.

RANSOM, Charles Archibald,

Lawyer, Prominent Journalist.

Journalism has ever called into the circle
of her followers the brightest minds and
the most gifted sons of the nation. The
naturally keen intellect is sharpened by its
contact with others as brilliant and gains
thereby an added strength and power. The
most careful analysis, closest reasoning and
logical thought processes are brought into
play, and the journalist of ability, by reason
of his strong intellectuality, rises above the
ranks of the many to become a leader in
thought and action, his influence extending
throughout the world. The late Charles
Archibald Ransom, of East Orange, New
Jersey, was a man of this stamp. Called
away in the very prime of life, he has left
a record as a man of marked ability in
everything he undertook, and of sweetness
and force of character.

(I) Amasa Ransom, his grandfather,
was a farmer in Colchester, Connecticut,
in which place he resided many years.

(II) Stephen Billings, son of Amasa
Ransom, and the father of Charles Archi-
bald Ransom, was born in Colchester, Con-
necticut, October 12, 1814. and died De-
cember 10, 1893. His early life was the
usual one of a farmer's son. He prepared
himself to teach, and from seventeen until
the age of twenty-one he taught during the
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helping his father. While teaching, he
studied the classics and the sciences. He
went to Virginia in the fall of 1835, with
the idea of engaging in teaching there, but
being unsuccessful in this endeavor, he em-
ployed most of the winter in traveling
about Virginia and Maryland, meanwhile
spending two months in the city of Wash-
ington, where he heard many debates in
Congress. In the autumn of 1836 he enter-
ed upon an engagement as teacher in the
old academy at Mendham. Morris county,
New Jersey, leaving there at the end of
two years to engage in a similar occupation
at Belvidere, Warren county, in the same
State. The profession of law always had
a peculiar fascination for Mr. Ransom,
and he took up the study of law while in
Belvidere, under the preceptorship of the
Hon. Phineas B. Kenney, at the time coun-
ty clerk. His next place of residence was
Hope, Warren county, New Jersey, where
he taught the village school for the period
of one year. His last experience as a teacher
covered a period of six months, in 1841,
which he spent in teaching in New Ger-
mantown, Hunterdon county, New Jersey.
He then registered as a law student in the
office of Colonel William Thompson, of
Somerville, finishing his legal studies under
his supervision. He was admitted to the
bar of New Jersey as an attorney, Septem-
ber 5, 1844, and as a counsellor, in Octo-
ber, 1847. He established himself in the
practice of his profession at New German-
town, and combined this with land survey-
ing. The following spring he removed to
Somerville, Somerset county. New Jersey,
and was actively engaged there until the
removal of his office to Jersey City, New
Jersey, in 1854. Two years later he took
up his residence in the same city.

From the time he cast his first vote at
Mendham in 1838, he had been an ardent
supporter of the Democratic party, and he
remained an adherent of it until he joined
the Free Soil party in 1848, and supported

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Martin Van Buren. He was one of the
most active organizers of the National
Prohibition party in 1869, never wavered
in his allegiance to it, and was the nominee
of that party for Governor of New Jersey
in 1880. In 1884 he was a delegate to its
National Convention. From the time Mr.
Ransom opened his office for professional
work he was engaged in many important
cases. He was primarily an advocate.
Thoroughly patriotic, Mr. Ransom com-
manded a company of militia in New Ger-
mantown, 1845-46.

Mr. Ransom married (first) May 14,
1845, Maria C, daughter of Jacob Apgar,
a merchant of Hunterdon county, who
went to California upon the discovery of
gold there, and died in that State in 1849.
He married (second ) July, 1856, Eliza
Woodhull. daughter of Stephen R. Hunt,
a lawyer of Somerville.

(Ill) Charles Archibald, son of Stephen
Billings and Eliza Woodhull (Hunt) Ran-
som, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey,
June 22, 1857. Having passed successfully
through the public schools of his native
city, in 1872 he became a student at the
Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham. Massa-
chusetts. He next matriculated at Wesley-
an University in Middletown, Connecticut,
entering in September, 1875. In the of-
fice of his talented father. Mr. Ransom
read law under his preceptorship and was
admitted as an attorney to the bar of New
Jersey in January 1881. Shortly after this
event he became a member of the staff of
the "New York Tribune," and when the
"New York Press" was organized by the
late Postmaster Frank Hatton and Robert
Porter, he became associated with them in
the same capacity and remained with them
until 1889. He was one of the leading
spirits in the organization of the "Jersey
City News." He was a legislative corre-
spondent at Trenton for more than twenty
years, and for the same length of time was
a member of the Correspondents' Club of

Trenton. Upon the election of Governor
(now President) Wilson, Mr. Ransom was
reappointed. He represented as legislative
correspondent the "Newark News," the
"Jersey City News," "Hudson Observer,"
"New York Press," "New York Herald"
and "New York Evening Post." Mr. Ran-
-mn was appointed by Governor Fort, of
New Jersey, executive clerk to the Gover-
nor, and also was made clerk of the Court
of Pardons. When Woodrow Wilson suc-
ceeded Governor Fort. Mr. Ransom was
reappointed to both positions. His social
membership was with the New England
Society of Orange and the Sons of the
American Revolution.

M r. Ransom was much interested in the
Naval Reserve, and was actively associated
with it for many years. He became a sea-
man in the First Division, Battalion of the
East, May 20, 1895. equipment yeoman
September 21, 1896, and chief yeoman of
battalions. March 23, 1900. At the expira-
tion of his time of service, he received his
discharge, afterwards becoming junior
lieutenant, Naval Reserve, under the re-or-
ganization on October 2, 1908.

Mr. Ransom married, December 17,
1907, Ann Baldwin, the daughter of Fer-
dinand and Ann L. (Baldwin) Passanp, of
Baltimore. Maryland. The death of Mr.
Ransom occurred suddenly at his home in
East Orange. New Jersey, February 15,
1913. This sad occurrence was deeply de-
plored. The State and community had ben-
efited through his presence. His career
had been one of marked success, and his
public spirit and his efforts in behalf of the
upbuilding of many worthy enterprises
were widely recognized. The energy which
he threw into all he undertook, stimulated
others to like efforts. His reputation for
culture was well deserved, and he sustain-
ed intimate relations with the leading men
of his time. Mr. Ransom is buried in
Rosedale Cemetery. Orange.

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LANNING, Hon. William Mershon,

Lawyer, Jurist, Financier, Author.

Men of marked ability, forceful charac-
ter and culture, leave their impress upon
the world, written in such indelible char-
acters, that time is powerless to obliterate
their memory or sweep it away from the
minds of men. To this class belonged the
Hon. William Mershon Lanning, of the
State of New Jersey. He had inherited in
rich measure the sterling virtues character-
istic of many generations of the Lanning
family, and greatly added to the family
prestige.

Robert Lanning, the American progeni-
tor of the family, was supposed to have
come to this country from Wales, and was
a resident of Maidenhead (now Lawrence-
ville), in 1698, and was one of the trustees
to whom was conveyed the land for the-
Maidenhead (now Lawrence ville) Presby-
terian church. He married, and had chil-
dren, of whom one or more were baptized
at Maidenhead, July 13, 1715, Stephen,
Richard, John, Daniel, Robert and Frances.

Stephen Lanning, son of Robert Lan-
ning, died in 1780. He married Abigail
Hart, and had children : Ralph, Robert,
Elijah, Stephen and Sarah.

Elijah Lanning, son of Stephen and Abi-
gail (Hart) Lanning, was born in 1753,
died in 1793, and he and his wife are buried
in the old Ewing graveyard. He married
Sarah Mershon, who died December n,
1831, and they had children: Mary.
Eunice, Elijah, Nathaniel, Jemima, Abigail,
Angeline, Sarah, Julia, Rachel and Han-
nah.

Nathaniel Lanning, son of Elijah and
Sarah (Mershon) Lanning, was born June
2, 1775, died January 25, 1845. He mar-
ried, May 25, 1820, Mary Howell, born
February 8. 1788, died May 25, 1840. Chil-
dren: Elijah Webster, Elizabeth, Rebecca,
Nathaniel, James, John and Sarah.

Elijah Webster Lanning, son of Nathan-
iel and Mary (Howell) Lanning, was born

in Ewing township, Mercer county, New
Jersey, May 23, 1821, and died November
3, 1906. He was a farmer by occupation,
and an elder in the Presbyterian church for
more than a half a century. He married
(first) Cornelia Ann Mershon, (second)
Sarah Coleman. Children by first mar-
riage: William Mershon, whose name
heads this sketch, and Wallace. Children
by second marriage: Alfred M., Cornelia
Jane, Herbert, and Harry Webster.

Hon. William Mershon Lanning was
born on the farm of his father in Ewing
township, Mercer county, New Jersey,
January i, 1849, an<^ died February 16,
1912. In 1866 he was graduated from the
Lawrenceville Academy, and at once en-
gaged in the profession of teaching, being
thus occupied in the schools of Mercer
county until 1880, the last six years of this
period being passed as an instructor in the
old Trenton Academy. He was commis-
sioned a justice of the peace of Ewing
township, May i, 1876, and while qualify-
ing for that office obtained an insight into
legal matters which proved the starting
point for his entrance into the profession
of law. From 1877 to 1880, while still pur-
suing his career as a teacher, he devoted all
of his spare time to the study of law, at
first with George A. Anderson, and subse-
quently with General Edward L. Camp-
bell, and was admitted to the bar as an at-
torney. November 4, 1880; three years
later he was admitted as a counsellor. April
19, 1886, he was elected to the office of
city solicitor of Trenton, was re-elected the
following year, and served until 1888. Jan-
uary 31. 1888, he was appointed judge of
the District Court of the city of Trenton,
and held this office until he was legislated
out of office in 1891. In 1894 he was a
member of the Constitutional Commission ;
in November. 1902, was elected to Con-
gress on the Republican ticket from the
Fourth District of New Jersey, but resign-
ed in June, 1904, in order to accept the of-
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District of New Jersey, to which he had
been appointed by President Roosevelt.
President Taft, in May, 1909, appointed
him to the position of United States Cir-
cuit Judge for the Third Judicial Circuit.
The degree of Doctor of Laws was con-
ferred upon him by Washington and Jef-
ferson College in 1908, and Princeton Uni-
versity conferred the same degree in 1910.

Judge Lanning was considered an au-
thority on State law and. in 1887, he. with
the late Judge Garret Dorset Wall Vroom,
by authorization of the New Jersey Leg-
islature, compiled the "Supplement to the
Revision of the Statutes of New Jersey,"
and by the same authority, the same gentle-
men, in 1895, compiled the entire statutory
law of the State in the edition known as
"The General Statutes of New Jersey."
Judge Lanning published a book on town-
ship law in 1885, known as "Helps for
Township Officers," which was so widely
read as to make a second edition necessary.

In business affairs Judge Lanning was
no less capable than in legal matters, and
had he chosen to follow a business career,
he would undoubtedly have achieved emi-
nence in that. He was at various times a
director of the Mechanics' National Bank
of Trenton, and for some time filled the
office of its chief executive : he was a man-
ager of the Trenton Savings Fund Socie-
ty, and served as counsel for both of these
institutions ; trustee of Lawrenceville
School : manager of Mercer Hospital ; one
of the original trustees of the Trenton Free
Public Library ; trustee of the General As-
sembly of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America : a director of
the Princeton Theological Seminary ; and
member of many committees of the Pres-
byterian Church, including the Committee
on Organic Union of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States of America
and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church ;
and a member of the New Jersey Society
of the Sons of the Revolution. In 1914 the
Board of Education of the Township of

Ewing honored his memory by erecting a
school building close to the site of the house
in which he had been born, and named it
the "William M. Lanning School."

Judge Lanning married, August 3, 1881,
Jennie Hemenway, of Hermon, St. Law-
rence county. New York. She was gradu-
ated from the Oswego Normal School, and
after teaching for a time in the schools of
New York State, became a teacher in the
State Normal School at Trenton. Chil-
dren : Kenneth Hemenway and Robert
Salisbury.

The high esteem in which Judge Lan-
ning was held is scarcely to be overestimat-
ed. In all classes of society, his death was
deeply and sincerely deplored, and public
opinion will be found capably expressed in
the following extracts. A memorial pre-
sented to the New Jersey State Bar Asso-
ciation reads as follows :

"In the death of William M. Lanning, Judge
of the United States Circuit Court for the
Third District, the Bar of New Jersey has lost
one of its most distinguished members, the Fed-
eral Bench, one of its ablest officers, the com-
munity one of its most worthy citizens, and all
within the circle of his personal acquaintance,
have lost a much loved friend."

'Judge Lanning exemplified in his life and
career the qualities which make for a noble, an
inspiring type of manhood. Favored with only
moderate educational advantages, he showed
himself to be possessed of the true spirit of cul-
ture by supplementing his training with self-
cultivation until he could justly claim fit com-
panionship with those possessed of richer intel-
lectual acquirements. His zeal for advance in
knowledge, his willingness to toil to secure it,
and his ability to grasp the underlying princi-
ples of the law which, in mature years, he
adopted as his life work, placed him, in a short
time, well in the front rank of the younger
practitioners of Mercer county He was keen-
ly sensitive to all the obligations of profession-
al honor and the best traditions of old school
lawyers suffered no impairment at his hands
His early selection as the legal adviser of the
city of Trenton was a recognition of superior
legal attainments acquired during the time with-
in which the average practitioner is still strug-
gling for a firm foothold in the ranks. His ap-

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pointment. a little later, to the judgeship of the
District Court of the city of Trenton, happily
for him, gave the opportunity to show his pe-
culiar qualifications for judicial position, and
demonstrated anew the fact that the dignity of
public service and the honor that will flow from
duty well performed does not depend upon the
rank of office, but that the official may exalt his
station by his personal character and the quality
of the service he renders.

"When Judge Lanning, after three years' ser-
vice as Judge of the City District Court, left
the bench again to devote himself wholly to ac-
tive practice, the prestige and standing of the
court had been much advanced and his reputa-
tion as an able and conscientious lawyer had
been greatly increased. From this time he
stood in the forefront of the bar of Mercer
county, and was regarded as among the lead-
ing lawyers of the State.

"His election to Congress was without sacri-
fice of civic principle, without resort to discred-
itable conduct on his part, and he entered, some-
what regretfully, upon the discharge of his du-
ties as a representative, with the same zealous
purpose to act well his part which had always
characterized his work as a lawyer and a judge.

"His career as a legislator was brief, for with
the generous approval of all who knew him he
was named by President Roosevelt for the more
congenial position of Judge of the United
States District Court for the District of New
Jersey, to succeed the late Judge Kirkpatrick
Here he found a work that he liked and that
was suited to him. His tasks, his abilities and
his duties so complemented each other it was
but natural to see him soon gain a reputation
as a strong Federal judge. And when President
Taft promoted him to the position of Judge of
the United States Circuit Court, it was uni-
formly regarded as an acknowledgment of
demonstrated fitness and as a due reward for
duty ably and honorably performed. Through-
out his career on the Federal Bench in the Dis-
trict and the Circuit Court, he grew steadily in
public esteem as a strong, able and impartial
judge. He was commissioned by nature for a
judicial position before man gave him the op-
portunity to mount to the seat for which he was
so well qualified by temperament, by an indefat-
igable industry and by a conscientiousness that
could brook neither partiality to friend nor in-
justice to foe.

"But he was more than an able lawyer, more
than an impartial, upright judge. He was in
the true sense of the word a loyal son. a true
hushand. a devoted father, a good citizen, a

Christian gentleman. An unswerving consci-
entiousness ran like a golden thread through
all his course of action in public as well as in
private life. They who labored for public wel-
fare, for honest methods in public life, and for
social uplift, found sympathy and support in
him. He was essentially a religious man and
duty was the star by which his life course was
guided He was devoted to the church denomi-
nation in whose fold he had been reared, whose
tenets he had been taught, yet he was liberal
in his judgment and catholic in his sympathies.
"The index to his character was revealed in
a word privately uttered at the decease of his
father, but a few years before his own untime-
ly death, that his parent had left a rich inheri-
tance, not in money, but in a good name, and it
would seem that the Bar of New Jersey can pay
no better tribute to his memory than to record
that just as he received from his father the
priceless inheritance of an untarnished name, so
he has. in turn, as his most valuable bequest,
transmitted, unsullied, that inheritance to those
who came after him."

Remarks of United States Circuit Judge
Joseph Buffington, on the opening of Court
at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 16,
1912:

"It becomes the sad duty of this Court to
record on its minutes today the fact of the
death of William M. Lanning, Circuit Judge of
the Third Circuit, which occurred at an early
hour this morning at his home in Trenton, New
Jersey. This is neither the time nor the place
for a tribute worthy of our colleague and
friend, but I cannot forbear to give voice to
that deep sense of loss which the Bar, the
Bench, his State and Country will feel in the
ending of a life before its allotted time, largely
as I believe, through his self-sacrificing devo-
tion to judicial duty. In these days when courts
and judges are so freely criticised, he was one
who went unblamed, and it is my privilege to
here record my profound conviction that Judge
Lanning in every relation of life and duty meas-
ured up to the highest standards of one who is
called upon to do his quiet and faithful part in
the administering of human justice. Born in
the plain walks of life and with a broad, human
sympathy for all sorts and conditions of men,
place and authority never changed the simplici-
ty of his nature. With a frame used to the
hard work of a farm in his youth, he had in his
matured life a capacity for work that knew no
halting while any case was undecided. The

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law's delays had no place in his calendar or his
court. With a robust honesty of heart, he
sought, as for a pearl of great price, the right
of every case and to find that right, no labor
was too long, no record too large, no detail too
small. His knowledge of legal decisions and
principles was profound, but with a great
breadth of sound and saving common sense he
never let the practical be overpowered by the
technical. He was essentially a learned common
sense judge. As advancement came to him and
his sphere broadened, he broadened with that
sphere. While cheerily carrying, as his col-
leagues know, more than his share of judicial
work, he freely gave of his great working pow-
ers and of his warm, sympathetic personality,
to the affairs of his city, his State and his
church. His counsel and wise-guiding will be
missed in his city, in the boards of great, edu-
cational schools, in the councils of a great
church. In the courts of this circuit he will
be missed in a measure we all dread to face.
Patient in hearing, courteous in manner, stu-
dious in research, honest in instinct, tenacious
for the right as he saw it, but when convinced
he was wrong turning to the right with a frank-
ness that bespoke the honesty of a true and
fearless nature, he was all a judge should be.
Reverently drawing aside the veil of his inner
life, as a colleague of years may do, I wish to
bear testimony to his unsullied life and to a
great man's simple and childlike faith in the
Friend in whose keeping we leave him."

BIGELOW, Moses,

Financier, Public Official.

The lives of such men as Moses Bige-
low, the last ante-bellum mayor of Newark,
New Jersey, whose term of office extend-
ed through more than half of that momen-
tous struggle, are a source of inspiration
which cannot well be overestimated. At
that time there was a strong feeling of sym-
pathy with the South manifested in New-
ark, and this largely increased the difficul-
ties he found it necessary to contend with
during his administration.

Mayor Moses Bigelow, only son of Tim-
othy and Hannah Ogden (Meeker) Bige-
low, was born on the family homestead at
Lyons Farms, Newark, January 12, 1800,
and died in the same city, January 10. 1874.

The schools of Newark and Elizabethtown
furnished his education, which his earnrst,
studious nature made a thorough one, and
which was supplemented by much and well
chosen reading. For a time he took up the
study of law in the office of Governor Wil-
liam Pennington, and while it proved of
great interest to him, upon attaining his
majority, he preferred to identify himself
with a manufacturing career as far as bus-
iness pursuits were concerned. For more
than fifty years he was active in this line
of industry, and was also connected with a
variety of other enterprises. In associa-
tion with John P. Jackson and J. M. Meek-
er he secured the incorporation of the Mor-
ris & Essex railroad in 1835 ; he draughted
the charter of the Mechanics' Fire Marine
Insurance Company, a prosperous institu-
tion for many years ; and was an incorpor-
ator and director of the Bank of New Jer-
sey, the Howard Savings Institution, the
Firemen's Insurance Company, the Repub-
lic Trust Company, the Citizen's Gas Light
Company, and a number of local corpora-
tions. He served as the first president of
the New Jersey Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, and was appointed
by the Supreme Court as one of the trus-
tees of the Trenton Asylum for the Insane,
which office he filled efficiently for many
years.

In 1856 he was elected mayor of the city
of Newark, being the first representative
of the Democratic party to hold that of-
fice, and so wise and discreet was his man-
agement of municipal affairs, that he was
re-elected four times. One biographer
writes of him : "He was unusually well-
equipped for such a position. Cautious, re-
ticent, independent and firm, his conduct
was uniformly even and correct yet his
success never led him to unseemly self-as-
sertion or personal ambition. As mayor he
inaugurated a system of block maps to
facilitate taxation and numbering of
houses; procured the establishment of sink-
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brought about the purchase of private wa-
ter rights and the formation of the Newark
Aqueduct Board ; organized a police de-
partment, a dispensary of medicines for the
poor, and a board of health ; and directed
the codification of the city ordinances, and
the modification or repeal of various ob-
noxious ordinances. During the Civil War
he made the financial affairs of the city
his especial care and negotiated all public
loans, and it is high tribute to him to re-
cord that all his plans were approved and
adopted by the common council. In per-
son he had an impressive presence ; he was
of superior intelligence and entire sinceri-
ty, and withal, liberal in benevolence. He
was intensely fond of literature, and his
evenings were devoted to his books and his
library."

Mayor Bigelow's direct and searching
criticism was the immediate cause of the
establishment of the Newark Police De-
partment. In part, he said : "The present
organization of the police (evidently the
constables and marshals), and of the
watch department, I think very defective.
The peace and tranquility of the city
and the security and protection of the prop-
erty of the citizens require an active and
energetic performance of the duties of each
department. The service rendered under
the present organization is altogether inad-
equate to the expense incurred. I would
recommend that it be made a subject of
your inquiry whether it would not be more
economical and whether the energy and
efficiency of each would not be promoted
by reorganizing the police and watch de-
partments and putting them under one
head."

Just prior to the Civil War, the senti-
ments of Mayor Bigelow when once pub-
lished, were of great influence in determin-
ining the stand taken by Newark on this
momentous question. At the close of his
annual message to the Common Council, in
January. 1861, he said:

"In closing this communication, I feel it to be
my duty to refer to the importance and solemn-
ity of the present crisis in the political affairs
of Our Country, the first effect of which has
been a general prostration of its industrial in-
terests, and, unless, soon adjusted, will cause
unprecedented deprivation and suffering. I re-
gard the Union of these States as indispensable
to the liberty, peace and prosperity of our
people, and the great source of happiness at
home and honor and respect abroad When
compared with the question of its preservation,
the transitory issues of party should be regard-
ed as mere 'dust in the balance.' The great prob-
lem is now before us : How can it be preserv-
ed? Our Constitution was formed to perfect
and perpetuate it, establish domestic tranquility
and promote the general welfare, and its noble
and patriotic framers laid its foundation in the
spirit and principles of compromise and conces-
sion, political and social comity, and fraternal
forbearance; — and if, in the conflicts of party
strife, or amid the excitements of party pas-
sion, we have departed from this spirit, we
should hasten to retrace our steps — for if we
are to live under one Constitution, with one
country and one destiny, we must be one people,
not in form and name, but one in affection, and
one brotherhood loyal to the rights and institu-
tions of all. and with a union of hearts and
hands, sustaining in a sincere and generous spir-
it the compromises of the Constitution as the
only means of preserving the great Ark of our
safety — the Union.

"Without a prospect of continued and per-
manent peace there can be no permanent happi-
ness and prosperity : and shall our dearest in-
terests be sacrificed or put in jeopardy by con-
test about abstractions which the laws of cli-
mate, production and immigration, together
with territorial position, will practically settle
under the Constitution and Supreme Judiciary
of the country, to which all are bound to sub-
mit? As citizens of New Jersey, and the rep-
resentatives of her most flourishing and impor-
tant city, I congratulate you upon her record as
a State faithful to the Constitution and loyal to
the rights and institutions of all her sisters in
the Confederacy. Let us endeavor to extend
and perpetuate this spirit within her borders,
and in emulation of the teachings and example
of Him who 'spake as never man spake,' con-
tinue to 'render unto Caesar the things that are
Caesar's,' firmly trusting that under Providence
our great and powerful Union of States will
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its eastern and western shores — 'though distinct
as the billows, yet one as the sea.' "

Hon. Moses Bigelow married, February
4, 1836, Julia Ann Breckinridge, a daugh-
ter of Dr. Samuel Fowler, for a long time
a member of Congress, and noted as a min-
eralogist; and a granddaughter of Colonel
Mark Thompson, an officer in the Conti-
nental Army, deputy to the Provincial Con-
gress, and member of Congress during the
time of Washington. They had children :
Samuel Fowler, who attained high office
and fame in the legal profession ; Moses,
a sketch of whom also appears in this work ;
Frederick, who achieved distinction for his
excellent work in matters connected with
religion ; Josephine.

Always a man of action, Mr. Bigelow
demonstrated his public spirit by actual ser-
vice which redounded to the welfare of the
community. He possessed marked admin-
istrative ability, and his dominant charac-
teristics were stamped upon his countenance.
Calm and deliberate, he never engaged in
any undertaking, whether of a public or
private nature, without due and careful
consideration ; then, when his plans were
well and clearly formed, he strode forward
without hesitation to the goal he had set
for himself.

BIGELOW, Moses,

Manufacturer, Admirable Citizen.

When "Finis" closes the book of life of
any individual, it is customary for friends
and acquaintances to glance in review over
the pages of its history and ponder over
the lessons it contains, treasuring up the
good as an example of conduct that may
well be followed. A study of the life record
of Moses Bigelow, of Newark, New Jer-
sey, shows much to admire and to emulate.
While intensely devoted to business, and a
man of very decided views and strong con-
victions, he was by nature of a gentle and
affectionate disposition. His moral stand-
ard was high and he lived up to it. His

genial companionship, his tenacious regard
for the simple truth, his unostentious gen-
erosity and large-hearted Christian benevo-
lence were among the qualities which en-
deared him to his friends.

Moses Bigelow, son of the Hon. Moses
and Julia Ann Breckinridge (Fowler) Bige-
low, was born in Newark, New Jersey, in
1838, and died March 26, 1897. He was
educated in Dr. Hedges' School and the
Freehold Institute, and, like his gifted fath-
er, was a deep> and earnest ^uclcnt from his
earliest years. Upon attaining manhood
he became associated with his father in the
manufacture of varnishes, and was identi-
fied with this industry many years. As a
citizen, he was always active and influential
in advancing the welfare of his place of
residence, and was liberal in his contribu-
tions toward this end. But it was not alone
of his wealth that he gave ; he contributed
that which was of far greater value — his
time, personal service and counsel. Among
the numerous official positions he held
were : Promoter, trustee and treasurer of
the Newark Technical School ; trustee and
treasurer of the New Jersey Reform
School at Jamesburg ; and his talks with
the boys who attended the former and were
inmates of the latter, were of incalculable
benefit. In the political affairs of the city
he was also a factor to be reckoned with,
and at various times filled public office. He
affiliated with the Democratic party, serv-
ed as assemblyman, and was delegate at
large from New Jersey to the Democratic
National Convention of 1892. He was also
delegate to several other State and Nation-
al conventions. He was a member of the
Essex County Country Club ; a member
and at one time governor of the Essex
Club of Newark ; member of the Jeffer-
sonian Club of Newark, and of the Re-
form Club of New York City.

Mr. Bigelow married, at the Church of
the Heavenly Rest, New York City, June
17, 1875, Eliza Rebecca, a daughter of
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sex county ; granddaughter of General John
Mifflin Brodhead, of Pennsylvania; and
great-granddaughter of Colonel Robert Og-
den, of New Jersey. They had children:
Moses Bigelow (third), born in 1876; Hen-
ry Brodhead, deceased, born in 1878; Hen-
rietta Fowler, born in 1880, married Robert
Hamilton Southard ; Frederic, born Febru-
ary 17, 1882; John Ogden, born September
30, 1883. Mr. Bigelow was a man of most
sympathetic and kindly nature and never
withheld his aid from the afflicted or dis-
tressed. That his confidence and faith
were in this way sometimes betrayed can-
not be doubted, yet he never repined at loss-
es which came through extending assis-
tance to those less fortunate than himself.
In his death the community lost a truly
noble man and a valued citizen.

KELLAM, Luther H.,

Financier, Fnblic Benefactor.

Although of Pennsylvania birth and a
prominent business man of Philadelphia,
Mr. Kellam was for eighteen years a resi-
dent of Camden, then until his death, many
years later, was an honored citizen of Had-
donfield. New Jersey. While his business
interests were confined to Philadelphia, he
entered with a wholehearted interest into
the civic life of Camden and Haddonfield,
serving loyally and efficiently the church,
the Young Men's Christian Association, and
generously supporting the philanthropies of
both places. He was an earnest supporter
of good government, and while president
of the Law and Order Society fought vig-
orously for the abolition of the race track
at Gloucester, his efforts contributing large-
ly toward the final victory over that menace
to civic righteousness. In Haddonfield he
served two years in borough council, and
in his building operations aided in its im-
provement by the erection of only fine
homes. His life was long and honorably
spent, his example worthy of emulation, and
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ship he measured up to the full stature of
a man.

The ancestors of Mr. Kellam were early
settlers in New London county, Connecticut,
where his great-grandfather, Luther Kel-
lum, resided until 1803, then migrated to
Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. He
was a soldier of the Revolution, serving
under several enlistments during the war,
his actual service amounting to six full
years, in which time he saw hard service
and was in three severe battles, including
White Plains. He settled in Susquehanna
county when it was almost an unbroken
forest, but he strove manfully, felled, plow-
ed, sowed, and reaped, finally reaching a fair
degree of prosperity and seeing his children
in positions of independence, allied with the
best blood of the region. He was born in
Stonington, Connecticut, January 3, 1760,
died in Forest Lake township, Susquehanna
county, Pennsylvania, June 5. 1845, a true
Christian, and although in his eighty-sixth
year, in full possession of all his faculties.
His wife, Amy Hewitt, born in 1764. died
November 5. 1827.

Samuel Hewitt, son of Luther and Amy
(Hewitt) Kellum, moved to Ohio, where
he died, in Sandusky, in 1815. He mar-
ried, at Bridgewater, Pennsylvania. June

13, 1811, Fanny, daughter of Caleb and
Susan (Wilcox) Bush. Children: Lyman
Woodward and Samuel L.

Samuel Lewis, youngest son of Samuel
Hewitt and Fanny (Bush) Kellum, changed
the spelling of his name, and in this branch
Kellam is the accepted form. He was born
at Bridgewater. Pennsylvania, June n,
1814, died at Elizabeth, New Jersey, Febru-
ary 22, 1887. He married, October 22.
1835, Alice Lathrop Bagley, born October

14, 1812, died at Mauch Chunk, Pennsyl-
vania, August 8, 1852. Children: Helen
Josephine, died in infancy; Everett Manly,
died in infancy; Luther Hewitt, of further
mention ; William Oscar, died in childhood ;
Emma Louisa, died in childhood.

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Alice Lathrop ( Bagley ) Kellam. wa.^ bom
in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1844,
died at his residence in Haddonfield, New
Jersey, July 16, 1914. He attended the
public schools of the anthracite coal region
of Pennsylvania, and later took a full course
at Dickinson College, when he was honor
man in mathematics. In 1867 he moved
from Mauch Chunk to Philadelphia. He
engaged in the coal business most suc-
cessfully in association with his brother-
in-law, George B. Newton, continuing until
his retirement. He resided in Camden,
New Jersey, for eighteen years, moving to
Haddonfield in 1899, and there residing
until his death. In Camden he served as
vice-president and director of the Economy
Building and Loan Association, and as di-
rector of the North Camden Building and
Loan Association. He fought the forces
of evil in civic life, was president of the
Law and Order Society, worked untiringly
in behalf of the Citizens' League, was most
generous and helpful in his connection with
the Young Men's Christian Association and
the hospitals of Camden, as well as with
other philanthropies. In Haddonfield, Mr.
Kellam was a director of the Camden Coun-
ty Building and Loan Association, and per-
sonally caused a number of fine homes to
bo erected. He continued his interest in
public affairs, served two terms as borough
councilman, and was one of the potent
forces for good in his community. In re-
ligious faith he was a Presbyterian, belong-
ing in Camden to the First Church., which
he served for many years as treasurer. In
Haddonfield he united with the First Pre--
byterian Church, and there labored with
his old zeal for the advancement of all that
tended to better the community, loyally sup-
porting all good causes.

Mr. Kellam married, at Elizabeth. New
Jersey, August 31. 1865, Charlotte, daughter
of Lawrence Durling and Almira (Fellows)
Knowles. She was born in Mauch Chunk,
May 31, 1839. died in Haddonfield, Au-
gust 9, 1909. Children : Alice Bagley, mar-

ried Wellington Bechtel, and resides in Had-
donfield ; Lawrence Durling, deceased ;
Samuel Luther, deceased ; Ralph Newton,
a lawyer of the Philadelphia and New Jer-
sey bar, married Elizabeth Cowley, daughter
of F. George Crump, and resides in Mer-
chantville, New Jersey.

KEAN, John,

Lawyer, Man of Affairs, Statesman.

Senator John Kean was the third John
Kean to win prominence, the first having
been his great-grandfather, John Kean, of
South Carolina, who was a delegate to the
Continental Congress 1785-87, and cashier
of the first Bank of the United States at
Philadelphia. He married Susan, daugh-
ter of Peter Van Brugh and Mary (Alex-
ander) Livingtson, the former a son of
Philip Livingston, Second Lord of the
Manor of Livingston, New York, the latter
a daughter of James Alexander, Surveyor-
General of New York and New Jersey.
John Kean died 1796, and his widow mar-
ried (second) in 1800 Julian Niemcewiecz,
a Polish patriot and litterateur, who came
to America with Kosciusko. The same year
she bought "Liberty Hall" built by her
Uncle William Livingston, first governor
of the State of New Jersey, and changed
its name to Ursino, after Count Niemce-
wiecz's place in Poland, from which time
it has been in the Kean family.

Peter Philip James Kean, born in Eliz-
abethtown. New Jersey, 27th February,
1 788 ; died at New Lebanon, New York, Oc-
tober 2, 1828; son of John and Susan (Liv-
ingston) Kean. He graduated from Prince-
ton University 1807. He was prominent
in the military affairs of the State of New
lersey. and in 1824, when the Marquis de
Lafayette revisited the United States, Gov-
ernor Isaac N. Williamson appointed Ma-
jor Kean to the reception committee to wel-
come him to the State ; a post to which his
fluent knowledge of French proved an add-
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Mr. Kean was colonel of the Fourth Regi-
ment of the State of New Jersey. He mar-
ried, i8th February, 1813, Sarah Sabina,
daughter of General Jacob and Mary
(Cox) Morris. General Jacob Morris was
a son of Lewis Morris, signer of the Dec-
laration of Independence.

John (2) Kean, born March 27, 1814,
at Ursino, son of Peter Philip James Kean,
was a graduate of Princeton, class of 1834,
and one of the leading men of his day. He-
was one of the original stockholders of the
Camden & Amboy Railroad, was one of
the organizers and builders of the Central
Railroad of New Jersey, its vice-president
for many years, and from 1841 to 1847
served as its president. He was for a long
time president of the National State Bank
of Elizabeth, president of the Elizabeth-
town Gas Light Company, and interested
in many other enterprises of note. He was
active in politics, first as a Whig, later as
a Republican. He was vestryman of St.
John's Protestant Episcopal Church in
Elizabeth for many years, and possessed
many exceedingly fine qualities that endear-
ed him to a very large circle of friends.
His personal appearance was most striking,
his finely proportioned body agreeing with
his great height. It is said he never forgot
a face and was most courteous in his treat-
ment of all. He died in New York City
in January, 1895, aged eighty-one years.

He married, January 13, 1847, Lucy,
daughter of Caleb Ogden and Caroline
Louise (Pitney) Halsted. Children:
Peter Philip, died in 1848; Caroline Morris,
married George Lockhart Rives ; Susan
Livingston ; John, mentioned below ; Julian
Halsted, graduate of Yale University, class
of '76, and Columbia Law School, LL.B.,
a prominent business man of Elizabeth,
New Jersey ; Christine Griffin, married W.
Emlen Roosevelt ; Lucy Halsted ; Hamil-
ton Fish, an eminent banker of New York
City, senior member of Kean, Taylor &
Company, and prominent as executive and
director in many large corporations, he is

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active in Republican politics in New Jersey,
he married Katharine Taylor, daughter of
Robert and Kate Wilson (Taylor) Win-
throp of New York ; Elizabeth d'Haute-
ville ; Alexander Livingston.

John (3) Kean, son of John (2) and
Lucy (Halsted) Kean, born in "Ursino"
(near Elizabeth), New Jersey, December
4, 1852, lived and died there November 4,
1914. John Kean (3), after preparing in
private schools, entered Yale University,
class of '76, but did not graduate, receiving
however from Yale in 1890 the honorary
degree of Master of Arts. He entered Co-
lumbia Law School, was graduated LL. B.,
class of '75, was admitted to the New Jer-
sey bar in 1877, but never practised. He
was associated in business with his father,
whom later he succeeded in many of his
official positions and enterprises, becoming
president of the National State Bank of
Elizabeth, president of the Elizabethtown
Water Company, president of the Eliza-
bethtown Gas Light Company, vice-presi-
dent of the Manhattan Trust Company,
trustee of the Atlas Assurance Company
(Limited) of London, and was largely in-
terested in other corporations of note. He
took an active interest in politics from his
earliest youth.

His wealth and corporate connections
rendered him a man of importance, while
his congeniality gained him many friends,
so that in 1882 he was the Republican nom-
inee for Congress. He served in the For-
ty-eighth Congress (1883-85), was defeat-
ed for reelection, was renominated and
elected two years later, serving in the Fif-
tieth Congress (1887-89). He was an im-
portant factor in the legislation of that
period, and won a firm position among the
national leaders. He was chairman of the
New Jersey Republican State Committee
in 1891-92, and in the latter year, was the
party candidate for governor of New Jer-
sey, but was defeated by William T. Werts.
In 1889 he was the unanimous choice of
the party caucus for Senator, was duly

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elected and from 1889 until 1911, was
United States Senator from New Jersey,
having been reelected in 1905. Those twelve
years brought out the full strength of his
ability, and proved his right to rank with
the great leaders of his day although he
figured but little in public debate. He was
chosen secretary of the Senate caucus, and
was chairman of the committee on contin-
gent expenses. He was a practical poli-
tician, keeping himself in the background,
but furnishing facts, figures and plans by
which others worked. His house in Wash-
ington was known both as a political and
a social centre.

After retiring from the Senate in 1911,
at the expiration of his term, Senator
Kean lived quietly at "Ursino" until his
death, November 4, 1914, a singular and
interesting character, a useful man in his
own chosen path, a friend well worth hav-
ing, and one of the men of his day against
whose honor there was not even an impu-
tation. Senator Kean never married.

BREESE, Captain James Buchanan,

Distinguished Officer of U. S. Marines.

Captain James Buchanan Breese, late of
Trenton, New Jersey, was a descendant of
English ancestry, his great-great-grandfath-
er having come to America in the first half
of the eighteenth century.

Sidney Breese, the American progenitor
of the family of which Captain Breese was
a distinguished representative, was the son
of an English clergyman, was born in
Shrewsbury, England, in 1709, and died in
New York City, June 9, 1767. He was a
Jacobite but, the cause of the Young Pre-
tender failing, he came to America as pur-
ser on board a man-of-war, and remained in
this country. He was an eccentric char-
acter, and wrote his own epitaph which may
be still seen in Trinity Churchyard, New
York City. It reads: "Ha Sidney ! Sidney!
lyest thou here? I here lye till time is
flown to its Eternity." He married, Febru-

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ary 14, 1733, Elizabeth Pinkethman, born
in New York City, in 1710, died in Shrews-
bury, New Jersey.

Colonel Samuel Breese, son of Sidney
and Elizabeth ( Pinkethman) Breese, was
born in New York City, May 28, 1737, died
in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, 1801-02. He
was colonel of the Third Regiment, Mon-
mouth County, New Jersey, and in his
records we read that "his mother, nee Eliza-
zeth Pinkethman, a wealthy woman of New
York, was devoted to Washington and the
cause he represented, and advanced him
large sums of money for the prosecution
of the war." Colonel Breese married, Janu-
ary 7, 1768, Elizabeth Anderson, born in
Philadelphia, December 21, 1743, died in
Semonda, New York, in March, 1832. Col-
onel Breese was esteemed for his integrity ;
he was a gentleman of the old school and
very popular in New York and Philadelphia
society.

Arthur Breese, Esq., son of Colonel Sam-
uel and Elizabeth (Anderson) Breese, was
born in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, August 18
or September 16, 1770, and died in New
York City, August 14, 1825. He married in
Poughkeepsie, New York, November 4,
1793, Catherine Livingston, born in Pough-
keepsie, August 18, 1774. died in Utica,
New York, August 21, 1808. The Living-
ston line will be found forward.

Hon. Sidney Breese, son of Arthur and
Catherine (Livingston) Breese, was born
in Whitesboro, Oneida county, New York,
July 15, 1800. and died at Pinckneyville,
Illinois. June 27, 1878. He was graduated
from LTnion College in 1818, studied law,
removed to Illinois in 1821, and was there
admitted to the bar. In succession he fill-
ed the offices of town postmaster, Assistant
Secretary of State, State's Attorney, and
United States Attorney for Illinois. He
was a commissioned officer in the State
militia, and served as lieutenant of volun-
teers during the Black Hawk War. In 1835
he was appointed circuit judge, and in 1841,
Judge of the Supreme Court of the State.

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He was elected to the United States Senate
in 1843 on the Democratic ticket, served
until 1849 and. while chairman of the com-
mittee on public lands, made a report favor-
ing the establishment of a transcontinental
railway. He was a member of the House
of Representatives of Illinois, and was elect
ed its speaker in 1850. He was again ap-
pointed judge of the Circuit Court in 1855.
and was its chief. He was elected justice
of the Supreme Court of the State in 1857,
became Chief Justice in 1873, and held thi-
office until his death. He was one of the
organizers of the Illinois Central railroad,
and was regent of the Smithsonian Insti-
tution from 1845 to *&49- He published a
volume of "Decisions of the Supreme
Court," 1829; a work on Illinois in 1869;
"The Origin and History of the Pacific
Railroad," 1869. Judge Breese married in
Kaskaskia, Xew York, September 4, 1823,
Eliza Morrison, born July 23, 1808. a
daughter of \Yilliam Morrison.

Captain lames Buchanan Breese, son of
Judge Sidney and Eliza (Morrison) Breese,
was born in Clinton county, Illinois, in 1847,
and died February 7, 1887. His record as
given at the headquarters of the United
States Marine Corps, Washington, District
of Columbia, is as follows : "James B.
Breese was appointed a second lieutenant
in the United States Marine Corps, March
18, 1864; he was promoted first lieutenant.
May i, 1868, and resigned while holding
the latter rank, December 5. 1870." Dur-
ing the Civil War he entered the United
States Marine Corps, as ensign, and when
he left it many years later, he had attained
the rank of captain. At the time of the
expedition to Corea, he was attached to the
Flagship "Colorado," as lieutenant of ma-
rines, under Captain McLaine, and at the
storming of the forts, June 10, 1871, was
with Lieutenant Tilton the first to enter and
hoist the Stars and Stripes. At the Exhibi-
tion in Paris in 1878 he served as military
aide to the American Commission. After
his retirement from service he resided in

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Trenton, New Jersey, with his family until
his death, an honored and respected citizen,
hi^ remains being interred in Riverview
Cemetery.

Captain Breese married Josephine Orms-
by Yard, who now lives in the family man-
sion on State street, Trenton, and had chil-
dren: Edward Yarde, Elsie Morrison,
James Buchanan and Mary Ormsby. The
final "e" in the name of the.eldest son, Ed-
ward Yarde Breese, was added at the desire
of his Grandfather Yard, as that was the
original English form of the name.

(The Yard Family).

William Yard, great-great-great-grand-
father of Mrs. Breese, emigrated from Dev-
onshire, England, where his father, Richard
Yard, was high sheriff, and landed at Phila-
delphia in 1688. He was among the earliest
settlers of Trenton, New Jersey, and served
as clerk of the courts in 1720.

Joseph, son of William Yard, was a mem-
ber of the King's Council of New Jersey,
and donated a part of the site for the First
Presbyterian Church in Trenton, of which
city he was a resident. He was the last sur-
vivor of the first Board of Trustees of this
church, and by his will donated a legacy to
Princeton College.

Archibald Williams Yard, son of Joseph
Yard, was a business man of Trenton, and
was almost eighty years of age at the time
of his death in 1810.

Edward M. Yard, son of Archibald Wil-
liams Yard, was born in 1761, and died in
Trenton, New Jersey, in 1839. As a young
lad he obtained a position in a counting-
house in Philadelphia, but soon went to sea
on one of the vessels belonging to his em-
ployer. This was succeeded by a second
voyage when, the Revolutionary War hav-
ing commenced, the vessel was captured by
the British, and young Breese was compell-
ed to serve on a British man-of-war for a
period of two years, and was then taken to
an English prison. He managed to escape
and, after many adventures, arrived in this

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country, after an absence of seven years.
Immediately after the war he was engaged
in the mercantile trade between here and
Madeira, sailing the vessels of his father and
two other distinguished merchants of Tren-
ton, and later became interested in the trade
between this country and the West Indies.
'In 1795 he engaged in East India trade, and
he was among the first to establish trade
with China. Later he devoted much time
and attention to shipping until the embargo
in 1808, when he retired. He married Abi-
gail, who died in 1821, a daughter of Dr.
Joseph Phillips, of Maidenhead, and had
three children.

Captain Edward M. Yard, son of Ed-
ward M. and Abigail (Phillips) Yard, was
born in Trenton, November 24, 1809, died
May 2, 1889. and is buried beside his wife
in the Allegheny Cemetery. Pittsburgh. He
was but eighteen years of age when. No-
vember i, 1827, he became a midshipman
in the United States Navy, took part in
the war with Mexico and California, and
was one of the pioneers in the latter State.
From 1861 to 1865 he was a conspicuous
figure in the Civil War, rising through the
various grades to that of captain, by rea-
son of his gallantry and bravery. He retir-
ed from the navy in 1866 after a con-
tinuous period of service of almost thirty-
nine years. He commanded the United
States sloop-of-war "Bailey." and did ord-
nance duty in the Navy Yard at New York
in 1863, and at the Pittsburgh Ordnance
Proving Ground in 1864-65. Captain Yard
married, in 1853, Josephine Ormsby, of
Pittsburgh, who died the following year,
leaving an only child: Josephine Ormsby
Yard, who married Captain Breese, as
above stated.

(The Livingston Line).

Colonel Robert Livington, first Lord ot
the Manor, was born in Scotland. December
13. 1654, and died in Albany, New York,
in 1728. He married in Albany. July 0,
1679 (O. S.), Alida (Schuyler) Van Rens-

selaer, born in Albany, 1655-56, died in
New York, 1739.

Colonel Gilbert Livingston, son of Col-
onel Robert and Alida (Schuyler) (Van
Rensselaer ) Livingston, was born in Liv-
ingston Manor, March 6, 1698-90, died in
New York State, April 25, 1/46. He mar-
ried, December 22, 1711, Cornelia Beekman,
born January 18, 1693, died in New York,
June 24, 1742.

Henry Livingston, son of Colonel Gilbert
and Cornelia (Beekman) Livingston, was
born in Poughkeepsie, New York, August
29, 1714, died in the same city, February
10, 1799. He married Susannah, a daugh-
ter of John Conklin.

Major Henry Livingston, son of Henry
and Susannah (Conklin) Livingston, was
born in Poughkeepsie, New York, October
13, 1748, and died there. February 29, 1828.
He was commissioned major of the Third
Regiment, LTlster county. New York, Au-
gust 28, 1775, was with General Montgom-
ery at the siege of St. John's until the occu-
pation of Montreal, returning to his home in
December, 1775. He then retired from
service probably by reason of ill health. He
married at Stamford, Connecticut, May 18,
1774, Sarah Welles, born in Stamford, May
9, 1752, died in Poughkeepsie. September

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Catherine Livingston, daughter of Major
Henry and Sarah (Welles) Livingston, mar-
ried Arthur Breese, Esq., as mentioned
above.

MADDOCK, Harry Smith,

Prominent Manufacturer and Financier.

There is no manufacture in which in re-
cent years so much progress has been made
as in that of pottery, and it is the one on
which the health of the community depends
in a great measure. Active and careful at-
tention to all the details of this interesting
manufacture is an essential, and there is
none engaged in it at the present time, who
is more careful and conscientious in this re-

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sped than was the late Harry Smith Mad-
dock, of Trenton, New Jersey, president
of the Thomas Maddock's Sons' Company,
and closely identified with some other of
the most important enterprises of Trenton.
It is only appropriate that, in connection
with his life, we should give a short re-
view of his family.

The Maddocks are of English origin,
and John Maddock, great-grandfather of
the subject of this review, removed from
Old Chester, England, to Staffordshire,
where he made the acquaintance of John
Davenport, a manufacturer of porcelain.
Two of the sons of John Maddock, John
and Thomas, became adepts in the art of
decorating porcelain ware, in the factory
of Mr. Davenport, and John Maddock, Jr.,
organized the firm of John Maddock &
Sons, Porcelain Manufacturers, at Burs-
lem, and this is still in successful existence.
His brother, Thomas Maddock, married
Mary Crompton, and upon his death in
1836, his widow with several of the chil-
dren came to the United States. She set-
tled in New York City and its vicinity.

Thomas Maddock, second son of Thom-
as and Mary (Crompton) Maddock, left
England in 1847 with his first wife, came
to the United States and settled in New
York, where he started a business for the
decoration of porcelain at No. 39 Greene
street. In 1849 he removed to larger quar-
ters at No. 29 Spruce street. Warram &
Hawghout later made an arrangement with
them, by which they were to remove to
the quarters of this firm at No. 563 Broad-
way, and decorate exclusively for them.
From every point of view this was a most
successful arrangement. In 1853 the firm
of Maddock & Leigh decorated a dinner
service for the United States government
for use in the White House while President
Franklin Pierce was in office, and they also
decorated a service for the St. Nicholas
Hotel, of New York City, which was open-
ed in that year. The following year im-
paired health, owing to too close attention

and devotion to business affairs, compelled
Mr. Maddock to sell his interest to his part-
ner, and he retired to his farm near Ber-
nardsville, Somerset county, New Jersey.
Upon the complete restoration of his health
in 1856, he removed to Brooklyn, New
York, and there purchased the Star Hotel,
which he conducted eight years. He join-
ed the Thirteenth Regiment, National
Guard, in 1859, and in 1861 his regiment
acted as the escort of the Prince of Wales
during his visit to this country. In 1866 he
bought a crockery and glassware business
in Jersey City, New Jersey, and having
disposed of the Brooklyn hotel early in
1867, removed to Jersey City. He pur-
chased an interest in the Carroll Street Pot-
tery, at Trenton, New Jersey, in 1872, the
style of the firm being Millington & Ast-
bury. The firm name of this pottery,
which had been established in 1859, was
later changed to Millington, Astbury &
Maddock, and they added the manufacture
of sanitary earthenware. When Mr. Mil-
lington retired in 1874 the firm was contin-
ued under the name of Astbury & Mad-
dock until the death" of Mr. Astbury in
1878, when Mr. Maddock associated with
himself his three sons, who had been en-
gaged in individual enterprises in Jersey
City, and the firm of Thomas Maddock &
Sons was established in 1882. The adjoin-
ing pottery, known as the City Pottery,
was purchased in 1886, and in 1890, that
part of the plant between Ewing and Car-
roll streets was destroyed by fire. In 1892
the Trenton China Pottery, then in the
hands of a receiver, was purchased, and
operated as a separate corporation under
the name of the Maddock Pottery Com-
pany Lamberton Works. The City Pottery
section was destroyed by fire in 1892. Mr.
Maddock married (first) in England,
Honor Bossom, and (second) in America,
Isabelle M. Middleton.

Harry Smith Maddock, son of Thomas
and Isabelle M. (Middleton) Maddock,
was born in Brooklyn, New York, July 15,

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1861, and died at his home in Trenton, dist denomination. Fraternally he was a

New Jersey, January 24, 1914, after an ill-
ness of less than four days. He was very
young when his parents removed to Jer-
sey City, and there attended the public
schools and the Hasbrouck Institute. He
was of a bright, ambitious and energetic
nature, and was yet a young lad when he be-
came associated with his father in the pottery
business, a thorough knowledge of which
he acquired under the conscientious tuition
of his father. He had not quite attained
his majority when the firm of Thomas
Maddock & Sons was established. In this
relation he had ample opportunity for the
display of his remarkable executive ability.
He was a keen student of human nature
and an excellent judge of character. This
enabled him to make the best selection of
men to fill the positions in his control, and
the friendly interest he always showed in
the welfare of those under him made them
regard him with a degree of affection not
often found between master and man. His
stern sense of justice never permitted him
to leave a complaint uninvestigated, and the
natural result of this was a harmony which
was very satisfactory to both employer and
employed. Business matters, however,
were not allowed to engross all of his at-
tention, and he served as police commis-
sioner of Trenton for a period of thirteen
years, during three terms of which he serv-
ed as president of the Police Board. Among
other business enterprises with which he
was connected were The Mechanics'
National Bank of Trenton, of which he was
a director ; a director of the Maddock Pot-
tery Company : a director of the Jonathan
Batley Crucible Company ; director of the
Manufacturers' Association of New Jer-
sey, and treasurer of the insurance com-
pany in connection with this organization.
One of his chief recreations was farming,
and he maintained a beautiful summer
home near Pennington, New Jersey, He
•was not a member of any church, but his
religious views were those of the Metho-

member of the Order of Free and Accepted
Masons, in which he attained the thirty-
second degree ; Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks ; Ancient Arabic Order of
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Lotos, Tren-
ton, Trenton Country, Republican and Fel-
lowcraft clubs, all of Trenton.

Mr. Maddock married, at Trenton, New
Jersey, September 8, 1887, Kate Lent, a
daughter of William and Anna Manser,
and their son Harold S. was born Novem-
ber 18, 1890 ; now vice-president of Thomas
Maddock's Sons' Company. While the ideas
of Mr. Maddock were conservative to a
certain extent, he kept well in touch with
the trend of the times, and incorporated in
his plans for the development of the inter-
ests in his charge, the best ideas to be gath-
ered from other undertakings of a similar
nature. He was a man of strong convic-
tions, which he advocated with emphasis ;
of strong principles, to which he consistent-
ly adhered ; yet when the general good ap-
peared to demand it, he could yield with
grace to the will of the majority.

SMITH, Charles Perrin,

Leader in Community and National Affairs

In the death of Charles Perrin Smith,
the city of Trenton, State of New Jersey,
and the country at large, lost a man of in-
estimable value, a man whose every thought
was unselfish devotion to his country, a
man who lived only to better the condition
of his fellow men. The name he bore is
one of the most frequent occurrence as a
surname in all English speaking lands.

In the history of the world the "smith"
has been a pioneer of civilization in every
country, in every clime and in every age.
He forged the swords and plowshares, and
made the coats of mail and war chariots of
all the nations of antiquity. His value as
a member of the community has never been
denied. Among our Anglo-Saxon ancestors
the smith was a member of his lord's coun-

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cil, and at feasts sat in the place of honor,
at the lord's right hand. The name Smith,
anciently spelled Smythe, is derived from
"smite," and signifies "striker," or "one who
beats," referring to the use of the hammer.
It was one of the first occupative surnames
adopted by an English speaking people
when they stepped out of the twilight of
the Middle Ages into the light of modern
civilization. The surname has been borne
by many distinguished men both in Eng-
land and America, from early times to the
present, and it now seems to be as sugges-
tive of energy, industry and excellence as
it was a thousand years ago.

Charles Smith, great-grandfather of
Charles Perrin Smith, married Margaret
Perrin, a descendant of the Perrins of Vir-
ginia, who were prominent in the Huguenot
colony of that State. Samuel, eldest brother
of General George Washington, married the
widow of a Virginia Perrin.

Perrin, son of Charles and Margaret
( Perrin ) Smith, suffered greatly in the de-
struction of property by the conflagration
of Norfolk, the despoiling of his plantation,
and the carrying away of his negroes by
the British and refugees. He married Mar-
garet Wishart, a sister of Thomas Wishart,
who lost his life in the Continental army,
and of George, who was captured by the
enemy and never returned.

George Wishart Smith, son of Perrin and
Margaret (Wishart) Smith, was an officer
in the Maryland Line during the War of
1812, and at the head of his command took
part in the repulse of the enemy at St.
Michael's, by which action that part of the
State was relieved from further invasion.
He was a resident of Talbot county, Mary-
land, at the time of his marriage, but a
short time prior to his death had removed
to Philadelphia, where his death occurred.
He was related by marriage to the Calverts,
Singletons, Moseleys, Dudleys, Hancocks,
Lands, Scantlings, and other prominent
families of the State of Virginia. He mar-
ried Hannah Carpenter Ellet, who in the

paternal line was a direct descendant of
Governor Thomas Lloyd and Samuel Car-
penter, intimate friends and coadjutors of
William Penn. Watson says : "The name
of Samuel Carpenter is connected with
everything of a public nature in the early
annals of Pennsylvania; I have seen his
name at every turn in searching the records.
lie was the Stephen Girard of his day in
wealth, and the William Sansom in the im-
provements he suggested and the edifices
he built. He was one of the greatest im-
provers and builders in Philadelphia, and
after William Penn the wealthiest man in
the Province." Governor Thomas Lloyd, a
member in high standing of the Society of
Friends, because of religious persecution,
left his native country, Wales, and with his
family joined Penn in the colonization of
Pennsylvania. He was a son of Charles
and Elizabeth (Stanley) Lloyd, the latter of
the Stanley-Derby family, and the former
of Dolobran, and a descendant of Aleth,
Prince of Dyfed whose line can be traced
to the sixth century. The Lloyds are allied
to many distinguished noble families, and
trace their descent to Margaret, daughter
of Philip le Hardie, King of France, and
who was queen of Edward I. of England.
The name is found in honorable connection
with some of the most important events in
English history. Rachel, a daughter of
Governor Thomas Lloyd, married Samuel
Preston, of Maryland, who was mayor of
Philadelphia in 1711. Their daughter Han-
nah married Samuel Carpenter, son of the
Samuel Carpenter mentioned above, then
the family became allied by marriage with
the Ellets. The maternal line of Hannah
Carpenter ( Ellet ) Smith is descended from
John Smith, a colleague of Fenwick in the
settlement of West Jersey.

Charles Perrin Smith, son of George Wis-
hart and Hannah Carpenter (Ellet) Smith,
was bom in Philadelphia, in 1819, during a
temporary residence of his family in that
city, and died at his home in Trenton, New
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lad when he removed to Salem, New Jer-
sey, and in that section his education was
acquired. He was heir to great wealth,
which was managed by an executor, and he
placed it in the Bank of Maryland, at Balti-
more, which later failed, and in the course
of a few days, all of it was lost. The
entire course of his life was changed by this
failure. Instead of having wealth at his
command, he was obliged to depend upon
his own efforts for support, but this ap-
peared to furnish an impulse which would
otherwise have been lacking. At an early
age he formed a business connection with
"The Lyceum," at that time the most im-
portant institution of its kind in the State.
He wrote for the press on many subjects
and gradually achieved success. At the age
of twenty-one years he became the editor
and proprietor of "The National Standard,"
and not long afterward, of "The Harri-
sonian." These papers were financially in
straits at the time Mr. Smith took charge
of them, but he labored with undaunted
courage and energy until he had cleared
them from their difficulties, and made them
active factors in the Harrison presidential
campaign. He also made them the medium
for encouraging other important measures,
among these being the cause of manufacture
in Salem, the erection of the lunatic asylum
at Trenton, the abolition of imprisonment
for debt, the more frequent and thorough
establishment of public schools, and the
furnishing of relief and employment to the
poor. Temperance and morality were
themes constantly discussed in these publi-
cations, with very satisfactory results. The
Whig Association of Salem was called into
being by Mr. Smith, and he was its presi-
dent. He was one of the organizers of
the Salem Insurance Company and the
Building Association, becoming a director
of the last mentioned. He was the first to
broach the subject of a County Agricultural
Society, and was called into office as secre-
tary of this association. Although the com-
munity was a Democratic one, Mr. Smith

was honored by almost unanimous election
to membership in the Board of Freeholders,
and also as director. When the National
Guard was the only military organization
south of Trenton, he was captain in this
body, and he served as judge-advocate of
the Salem Brigade. He served as a mem-
ber of the Whig County Committee for a
period of eleven years, and the zeal and
energy which he supported by his writings
in "The National Standard," in favor of the
Whig party, resulted in placing every
branch of the State government in the hands
of that party. In 1848 he permitted his
name to be used as a candidate for the
office of surrogate. He was defeated by a
very small majority, but the vote cast for
him was with two exceptions the largest
ever cast for any candidate in the county.
In 1851 he abandoned editorial work, and
about thi« time toured about six thousand
miles in the west and northwest, later pub-
lishing valuable statistical and other in-
formation concerning this trip.

He wrote and published much concern-
ing the importance of developing the re-
sources of West Jersey by the construc-
tion of a railroad, and in connection with
this idea, called a public meeting on his
>i\vn responsibility. His efforts in this di-
rection were opposed by the Camden &
Amboy Railroad Company. He was nom-
inated for the Legislature at this time, and
while he had many and bitter opponents,
he won the election, his vote in the Demo-
cratic city of Salem being "twice as large
as ever before cast for any candidate under
any circumstances." While in the Senate
he was assigned to membership in the com-
mittees on education and treasurer's ac-
counts. It was largely owing to his in-
strumentality that the bill to establish a
State Normal School was reported and
passed. Among the most important bills,
the passage of which he advocated, were
those against bribery at elections, and pro-
viding employment for the poor. It is not
possible, within the limits of this article, to

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discuss in detail all the benefits arising from
the presence of Mr. Smith in the Legisla-
ture, but the influence of the measures he
introduced and supported, is a wide-reach-
ing one. It was largely owing to his de-
termined efforts that Lincoln was nominated
to the presidency, and of the wide-spread
and beneficial effects of that movement,
there is no need to speak. At the outbreak
of the rebellion, Mr. Smith considered his
duty clearly defined. Ardent in his sup-
port of the Union from the outset, he em-
ployed all his personal and official influence
in encouraging patriotism through the me-
dium of the press. When Lincoln passed
through Trenton on his way to Washington
to be inaugurated, Mr. Smith was selected
to take charge of the official delegation from
Philadelphia, and he otherwise fully par-
ticipated in the ceremonies at the State
Capitol. His work in connection with the
Civil War can best be described in the
words of an eminent authority, who wrote:

"On the i6th of April, 1861, Mr. Smith form-
ally addressed a letter to Governor Olden, earn-
estly proffering his services to the State and
Nation for any duty whereby they could best be
rendered available. The Governor accepted his
offer, and promised employment. It having trans-
pired that Fort Delaware was liable to be cap-
tured by disloyalists. Mr. Smith was dispatched
to Philadelphia to take such action in arousing
the authorities as he might deem necessary.
Through his representations, based on informa-
tion of a reliable nature transmitted to him, the
fort was garrisoned by the Commonwealth Ar-
tillery and the danger averted. He also procur-
ed tents for the unsheltered regiments through
General Patterson, and medical and surgical
supplies through General Wool. The following
service was referred to by the adjutant-general
in his annual report: Mr. Smith was hastily dis-
patched to New York, and under extraordinary
circumstances procured nearly twenty-five thous-
and rounds of musket ball cartridges and one
hundred thousand percussion caps for the four
regiments already en route for the seat of war,
and placed it on board the flotilla at midnight
during the prevalence of a severe storm. The
ammunition, transportation, etc.. were only ob-
tained through most persistent efforts, and sole-
ly upon his personal responsibility, at a period

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when neither the New York authorities or rail-
road companies would extend credit to the State
He was frequently dispatched to New York,
Philadelphia and Washington, on important
missions, passing down the Potomac in front of
the enemies' batteries, visiting our camps in Vir-
ginia, and. in brief, proceeding everywhere and
doing everything required of him. He made a
midnight trip to Washington while the enemy
were crossing the Potomac above that city, and
rumors of burning bridges and Cavalry raids
were rife along the route, and he disregarded
warnings to leave Washington while there was
yet time until he had faithfully performed his
duty. His visits to the War Department were
eminently successful, and on one occasion, as
informed, he saved for the State seventy-five
thousand dollars through tact and energy in ob-
taining interviews with the Secretary of War
at critical and seemingly impossible periods.
These journeys were generally dernier resorts,
and were always successful. Governor Olden,
in expressing his acknowledgments, emphatical-
ly remarked : 'You have performed for the
State important service, and relieved my mind
of great anxiety ;' and again he was character-
ized in the Executive Department as one who
never failed. Among other services he was in-
strumental, at the request of the Governor, in re-
taining Hexamer's famous battery in the service
of the State after it had resolved, and was al-
ready striking tents, to take service in New
York A very brief delay, and the heroic rec-
ord of this battery would not now form one of
the most brilliant chapters in the military his-
tory of the State."

Mr. Smith was one of that class of busy
men who, because of their activity, appear
always to have time left for new duties and
responsibilities. He was a member of an
important committee of the Sanitary Fair
in Philadelphia, of the Camden Auxiliary
Sanitary Committee, and one of the or-
ganizers, by appointment, of the Trenton
branch of the New Jersey Sanitary Commis-
sion. Governor Olden entrusted to him
the nomination of officers for one of the
best regiments raised in West Jersey, and
he named all with the exception of the chap-
lain and surgeon. His recommendations for
other regiments were also invariably suc.-
cessful. He became commander of the
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the only organization of its kind in the
State. He was the leading spirit in the
organization of the Union League of Tren-
•ton, and was indefatigable in his activities
in its interests, his name being the first on
the roll of about one thousand, and at vari-
ous times he filled almost all the offices.
As vice-president of the State Loyal League
he was frequently called upon to discharge
the duties of the executive office. In con-
nection with his work for these various as-
sociations, it is but proper to state that his
services were given without expectation of
remuneration of any kind, and that even
his traveling and other incidental expenses
were defrayed by himself. So great was
his patriotism and confidence in the govern-
ment that, when affairs were at the lowest
ebb, he invested all of his available fortune
in government funds. Governor Olden re-
nominated Mr. Smith, as a LInion man,
clerk of the Supreme Court, and with but
a very few exceptions, he received the rec-
ommendation of every man of prominence
in the State, irrespective of political party.
Among the duties discharged by Mr. Smith
was that of taking charge of and entertain-
ing Secretary of State Seward. Private Sec-
retary Lincoln, and others of the govern-
ment committee, on the occasion of the re-
ception of the remains of Minister Dayton,
upon their arrival from Europe. Immedi-
ately after the election of November, 1867,
Mr. Smith inaugurated a movement for
the nomination of General Grant to the
presidency. It was due to his efforts that
the act was passed for compulsory educa-
tion, and he succeeded Governor Olden as
one of the commissioners to enlarge the
State House. This also was an office carry-
ing no compensation. The success of the
Centennial Celebration in Trenton was
ascribed largely to the personal efforts of
Mr. Smith.

The leisure hours of Mr. Smith were
devoted to literary labors, and he achieved
a reputation in this field both in this coun-
try and in Great Britain. He was elected

a member of the famous Powysland His-
torical Society of Wales, corresponding
member of the New England Historic and
Genealogical Society of Boston, and honor-
ary member of the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania. The first mentioned society
invited him to pay them a visit, and he was
entertained by them most royally. He was
tendered the position of aide-de-camp by
the governor, and was an honorary member
of many military organizations, the soldiers
composing these all looking upon him as a
friend, and decorating him with their
badges. For a considerable period of time
he served as foreman of the grand jury of
the United States. Two extensive tours
were made throughout Europe, the publish-
ed accounts of these, furnished by Mr.
Smith, making most interesting reading, and
he also traveled extensively in his own
country and Canada. Mr. Smith was the
owner of a fine private yacht, and in this he
was in the habit of cruising along the coast
of the United States, and thus became thor-
oughly well acquainted with it. His taste in
art matters was an exceptionally fine one,
and many rare pictures adorned the walls
of his fine home, which was rendered even
more attractive by a well and a carefully
selected library. For many years he was a
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
and for a long time a delegate to the Dio-
cesan Convention. An excellent portrait of
Mr. Smith, painted by Miss Sinnickson, of
Philadelphia, hangs in the rotunda of the
State Capitol at Trenton, having been pre-
sented by his daughter, Miss Elizabeth Al-
ford Smith.

Mr. Smith married, in 1843. Hester A.,
a daughter of Matthew Driver, Esq., of
Caroline county, Maryland.

DUNHAM, Bering Potter,

Merchant, Financier, Progressive Citi«en.

Among the prominent men of Trenton,
New Jersey, who were actively identified
with her business and financial interests,

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as well as making their presence and in-
fluence felt for good in many other direc-
tions, was the late Sering Potter Dunham,
president of the well known firm, S. P.
Dunham & Company.

The surname Dunham is derived from an
old English place name, and is spelled in
various ways — Denham, Donham, Down-
ham, Dunham. The ancient coat-of-arms of
the English Dunhams is described as fol-
lows : Azure, on a chief indented or, a
label gules. The arms borne by Sir John
Dunham (1498) were quartered with those
of Bowett, Zouche, Berge and Bellaqua.
The family of the American immigrant can
be traced to the very beginning of the use
of surnames in England, Rychert Donham
being of record in Devonshire. England, in
1294, where his forbears had probably liv-
ed for generations.

John Dunham, a lineal descendant of Ry-
chert Donham. was born in Scrooby. Eng-
land, in 1589. and died in New England,
March 2, 1668-69. He came to America
on the "Mayflower." but on account of re-
ligious difficulties had changed his name to
that of Goodman. He married in Leyden,
Holland. October 17, 1619. Abigail Wood,
a distant relative. He was chosen deacon
of the church in Plymouth. New England,
in 1633. He was a useful and prominent
citizen, and was one of the purchasers of
the town of Dartmouth. He was a weav-
er by trade, and a deputy to the General
Court. He had eleven children.

David Dunham, great-great-great-grand-
son of John Dunham, and grandfather of
Sering P. Dunham, purchased the homestead
at Larger Cross Roads, more than a cen-
tury ago. and this is now still in the posses-
sion of the family. He married Martha
Barclay.

David Dunham, son of David and Mar-
tha (Barclay) Dunham, was a farmer and
leather tanner of Larger Cross Roads, and
died March 15, 1893. He married Mary
Potter, of Pottersville. New Jersey, a di-
rect descendant of Colonel Samuel Potter,

who received a commission for his valu-
able service during the Revolution.

Sering Potter Dunham, son of David
and Mary (Potter) Dunham, was born at
Larger Cross Roads, Somerset county,
New Jersey, October 20, 1842. and died at
his home, No. 186 West State street. Tren-
ton, New Jersey, November 16, 1913. The
common schools of his native township fur-
nished him with a plain but substantial
and practical education, and he commenced
his business career at the early age of six-
teen years. He became a clerk, at Rah-
way, New Jersey, in the business of Wood-
ruff & Dunham, his salary being twenty-
five dollars the first year, fifty dollars the
second, and one hundred dollars the third
year, during all this period having his
board and lodging free. His ambition and
natural ability soon enabled him to advance
himself, and we find the energetic young
man opening a store for himself soon af-
ter the Civil War. He established a store
of his own at Bedminster, Somerset coun-
ty. New Jersey, continuing this until he
had an opportunity of selling it to advan-
tage at the expiration of four years. Pot-
tersville was the next scene of his business
activity, remaining there two years, after
which he was clerk for a short time in a
business in Somerville. Not long after-
ward he purchased an interest in one of
the largest dry goods stores in the place,
the firm becoming Cox. Quick & Dunham.
Sixteen years were spent in Somerville,
the business with which he was connected
increasing largely in this time. Mr. Dun-
ham came to Trenton, New Jersey, in Sep-
tember. 1882, and there formed a partner-
ship with John H. Scudder, the firm becom-
ing known as Scudder & Dunham. The
business was commenced on a small scale,
only six clerks being employed, and at the
end of ten years, Mr. Dunham was making
use of the entire building, and an "L"
through to State street. Mr. Scudder retir-
ed in 1895, when the firm name was chang-
ed to read S. P. Dunham & Company. Later

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the firm was incorporated, Mr. Dunham be-
coming president of the corporation ; his
son, Edward W. Dunham, treasurer; E.
Smith Lamson, secretary ; and John Scud-
der Dunham, another son, a director. More
than one hundered thousand square feet of
floor space are now occupied by this con-
cern, and scores of clerks are employed.
Possessed of great executive ability, and
of progressive ideas, Mr. Dunham was the
organizer of many innovations. Among
these was the early closing movement,
which is now followed by all large estab-
lishments, while formerly the clerks were
obliged to stay as long as customers came
in. Many of the employes of this business
have spent their entire business lives there,
and now have sons of their own, also in its
employ. Mr. Dunham was a stockholder
and director of the Mechanics' National
Bank of Trenton, and served as president
of this institution from 1891 to 1900.

Intense patriotism was a distinguishing
characteristic of Mr. Dunham, and in 1862
he enlisted in Company A, Thirtieth Reg-
iment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry,
and did sentinel duty at the capitol at Wash-
ington. He lay in reserve at the battle of
Fredericksburg, Virginia, and, having con-
tracted typhoid fever, was sent to his home
in 1863. He gave his political support to
the Democratic party until the "Silver Is-
sue" was in question, when he differed
from it. He was a member of the Third
Presbyterian Church of Trenton, and an
elder in its since 1885. He was a Sunday
school superintendent one term, and church
trustee for many years. He was also an
elder in the Second Dutch Reformed
Church at Somerville for several terms,
and superintendent of the Sabbath School
there many years. He was commissioner
to the General Assembly of the Presbyter-
ian Church of the United States of Amer-
ica from the New Brunswick Presbytery,
when held at Portland, Oregon, in May,
1892. In the interests of the Young Men's
Christian Association, he was an equally

active worker, being a charter member, and
for a number of years president, of the
branch at Trenton, the present building be-
ing erected during that time.

Mr. Dunham married at Somerville, De-
cember 12, 1866, Anna Laura Bergen, who
died January 5, 1908. She was the daugh-
ter of James and Phebe (Peterson) Ber-
gen, and a descendant of Hans Hansen,
who came to this country about 1660. He
became the owner of large quantities of
land along the shores of the Hudson river,
the name being perpetuated in Bergen
county, Bergen Point, Bergen Heights of
Brooklyn, etc. Mr. and Mrs. Dunham had
children: i. Edward Woodruff, a member
of the firm of S. P. Dunham & Company,
of Trenton ; married Julia Coe Silvers, of
Cranbury, New Jersey. 2. James Henry,
a Presbyterian clergyman, and pastor at
Mount Holly, New Jersey; married Mary
MacMullin Barrows. 3. Mary Potter, mar-
ried Francis Vaux Wilson, a member of
the well known Philadelphia family of that
name, a member of which was Richard
Vaux, mayor of the city, and LTnited States
Minister to the Court of St. James, his de-
scendant, Francis Vaux Wilson, being an
artist of note. 4. John Scudder, also a mem-
ber of the firm of S. P. Dunham & Com-
pany. 5-6. Frederick and Elvie, died in
infancy. 7. George Bergen, died at the age
of sixteen years.

An estimate of the character of Mr.
Dunham, and the general esteem in which
he was held, may be formed from the fol-
lowing extracts, which were published at the
time of his death. The Presbyterian cler-
gyman said in part : "Mr. Dunham was our
senior elder in point of age as well as dur-
ation of service. He was also, it may be
said without disparagement to his younger
brethren, a man well equipped to stand at
the head in all councils ajid work of the
session. Nature has done much for him.
He was possessed of a fine personal pres-
ence : he had a vigorous and alert mind, of
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equipped in every way to be what he assur-
edly was, one of our foremost citizens. The
cultured and balanced poise of his charac-
ter was the fruitage, in part, of a noble
family line. What he has thus received he
has passed on to his children without cloud
or stain."

The "Trenton Gazette" said in part :
"Business was his hobby. He was devoted
to it whole-heartedly, and seldom it was
that he took a vacation, though he often
needed one. He found nothing but extreme
pleasure in attending to his mercantile af-
fairs, and being the possessor of rare exe-
cutive ability, built up by honest and fair
dealing an enormously large business. Even
of late years, when ill health troubled him,
Mr. Dunham would adhere to past custom
and visit the store every day. He no more
thought of remaining at home on a stormy
day than he did when it was sunshiny and
clear. It was this close application to bus-
iness, this uncommon display of interest
and capacity, that made Mr. Dunham what
he was when he died — what he by all means
deserved to be — successful ! In addition to
his liking for his business, he was always
fond of his many employes, all of whom
held him in the highest esteem, and real-
ized that their efforts to please never went
unappreciated. Mr. Dunham was also be-
loved by men in all walks of life, and his
death cast sorrow over many circles."

On the day of his funeral, all the prin-
cipal business houses in Trenton closed
their doors and business stopped as a mark
of the deep respect in which he was held
bv his fellow citizens.

BODINE, Dr. Joseph L.,

Leading Medical Practitioner and Writer.

The success Dr. Joseph L. Bodine so
deservedly won in his profession never un-
duly elated him nor caused him to vary
from the modest simplicity of his manner.
A nature of singular sweetness, openness
and sincerity was his. He had a profound

knowledge of human nature, and his judg-
i ent was sound and unerring. As a citizen,
as well as in his capacity as a physician,
Dr. Bodine won the confidence and esteem
of all with whom he held relations.

Jean Bodine, of Cambray, is said to have
removed to Medis, Province of Saintonge,
France, where his son was born. He was
doubtless a Huguenot, and left his native
land because of religious persecution. A
short stay was made in Holland and in
F.ngland, prior to coming to New York,
where he arrived before November 3, 1677.
It is known that he settled on Staten Island
before 1686, and his death occurred in 1694.

Jean Bodine, son of Jean Bodine, was
born in France, May 9, 1645, an^ died in
New Jersey, after March, 1736. With his
second wife, Esther, her parents and her
brother, he was naturalized in London, Eng-
land. March 21, 1682, and for a time re-
sided at Rye. in Sussex, where two of his
children were born. Having emigrated, we
find him living on Staten Island at the time
of the death of his father. May 12, 1701,
he purchased eighty acres of land in East
Jersey, at Charles Neck, opposite Staten
Island. He married (first) Maria, Janu-
ary n. 1680, daughter of Jean Crocheron,
also an emigrant to Staten Island ; (second)
Esther, daughter of Francois and Jeanne
Susanne Bridon. There were five children
by each marriage.

Francis Bodine. son of Jean and Esther
(Bridon) Bodine, was probably born in
England, and died shortly after March,
1736. Until 1726 he was a resident of
Staten Island. He married Maria, daugh-
ter of James and Mary (Mulliner) Dey,
of Staten Island, and they had at least
three children, and probably others.

Francis Bodine, son of Francis and
Maria (Dey) Bodine, was born on Staten
Island. Prior to 1745 he settled at Cran-
bury, on the border of Middlesex county,
New Jersey. November I, 1775, he had
about thirty acres of land surveyed in
Tranquility Swamp, on Wading river, Lit-

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tie Egg Harbor township, Burlington coun-
ty, New Jersey, and this was in the posses-
sion of his children as late as 1820. The
name of his first wife, by whom he had
three children, is not known, and he mar-
ried (second) Rachel Wilson.

John Bodine, son of Francis Bodine and
his first wife, was born at Cranbury, Mid-
dlesex county, New Jersey, in 1746, and
died at Wading river, March 26, 1826. Early
in life he removed to Burlington county,
where he became proprietor of the inn at
Wading river which he conducted for forty
years. He was a prosperous farmer and
an extensive land owner. An ardent patriot,
he served in the Continental army through-
out the Revolutionary War, rising from the
rank of private to that of captain. He mar-
ried (first) about 1773, Mary Roundtree ;
(second) September 16, 1790, Ann Taylor,
who survived him. He had five children
by the first marriage, and ten by the second.

Stacy Bodine, son of John and Mary
(Roundtree) Bodine, was born October 21,
1783. and died June 26. 1867. He married
Elizabeth Budd.

Daniel B. Bodine, son of Stacy and Eliza-
beth (Budd) Bodine, was born near Mount
Holly, New Jersey, April 16, 1814, and
died in August, 1881. At an early age he
engaged in business in Middletown, Mon-
mouth county, New Jersey, and was very
successful in this enterprise. He became
identified with various financial enterprises,
and at the time of his death was a member
of the Board of directors of the Trenton
Banking Company and the Trenton Savings
Fund Society. The public affairs of the
community received his earnest and consist-
ent attention, and he became prominent in
them after his removal to Trenton. From
1851 to 1856 he was clerk in the Court of
Chancery, and later was mayor of Trenton
for two terms. His mother was a lineal
descendant of William Budd, a brother of
Thomas Budd, surveyor-general of West
Jersey, and owner of a share proprietary.
Mr. Bodine married Elizabeth Lamb.

Dr. Joseph L. Bodine, son of Daniel B.
and Elizabeth (Lamb) Bodine, was born
at Pemberton, Burlington county, New Jer-
sey, June 26, 1839, and died January 2,
1889. His elementary education was ac-
quired in his native town, and upon bis
removal with his parents to Trenton, New
Jersey, in 1851, he became a student at
Trenton Academy, in preparation for en-
trance to Princeton College. He and his
brother, the Rev. William B. Bodine, of
Philadelphia, were graduated from this in-
stitution in the class of 1860, both being
among the first five of this class. Having
decided upon the medical profession as his
life work. Dr. Bodine took up the study
of medicine with his uncle, the former Gor-
ernor George Franklin Fort, and also ma-
triculated at the LTniversity of Pennsylvania,
from which he was graduated in the class
of 1865 with the degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine. An interneship of one year was spent
at the Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia,
and he then commenced the active practice
of his profession in Trenton, with which he
was prominently identified until his death
in the very prime of life. From the outset
of his practice he made his mark in his
chosen profession, and at the time of his
death had an unusually extensive and lucra-
tive practice, although the latter quality was
the one he least regarded, the alleviation
of the sufferings of humanity being his chief
aim. He was especially successful in the
treatment of mental afflictions, to which he
gave much of his time. He was frequently
called into consultation by his colleagues,
and was for many years chief of the staff at
St. Francis' Hospital, and consulting phy-
sician to the New Jersey State Prison. His
skill in the diagnosis of disease was so well
recognized that he became an authority in
this field. His discussion of medical sub-
jects was always eagerly looked forward
to by the State and Mercer county medical
Societies, and he delivered numerous ad-
dresses before the American Social Science
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fessional writer, being a prolific contribu-
tor, on the subjects of insanity and the
care of the insane, to medical journals here
and abroad. In spite of the manifold de-
mands made upon his time by his profe>-
sional labors. Dr. Bodine was not neglectful
of the public affairs of the community, but
gave them to a considerable extent his per-
sonal attention. Appointed by Governor
Ludlow as a member of the State Sinking
Fund Commission, his services to the State
were of inestimable value, and he succeeded
in placing the fund on a sound financial
basis. His religious affiliation was with St.
Michael's Episcopal Church, in which he
served as a vestryman for a considerable
number of years. Outside of his profes-
sional and public service. Dr. Bodine, was
of that modest, retiring disposition which is
sometimes met with in combination with
qualities of the highest order of excellence.
He was charitable to a degree, but in a most
quiet and unostentatious manner, and none
but the recipients of his bounty will ever
known the extent of his gifts.

Dr. Bodine married, October 7, 1874,
Frances P. Davis, and is survived by two
children: Elizabeth D. ; and Joseph L., as-
sistant district attorney, and member of the
law firm of Vroom, Dickinson & Bodine.

HOPPER, Abram G.,

Leading Bnilding Contractor.

The late Abram G. Hopper, whose career
was such as to warrant the trust and confi-
dence of the business world and the regard
of all with whom he was brought in con-
tact, by reason of the fact that he ever con-
ducted all transactions on the strictest prin-
ciples of honor and integrity, was a de-
scendant of a family which has been well
and prominently known in the region of
New Amsterdam and the New Netherlands
for more than two and half centuries.
There are in America three distinct Hop-
per families. One is of Irish descent, an-
other came from the county of Durham,

England, and the third, by far the most
numerous, is of Dutch ancestry.

Abram G. Hopper was born November
29, 1855, in New York City, son of Gar-
rett and Sarah (Hopper) Hopper. When
he was about two years of age his parents
removed to Oakland, settling on a farm,
and there he was reared, attending the
county school and acquiring a practical ed-
ucation, which thoroughly prepared him
for the activities of life. At the age of
eighteen years he placed himself under the
preceptorship of his uncle, Samuel Hopper,
at Franklin, now Nutley, New Jersey, in
order to learn the trade of mason, and af-
ter mastering all the details of the same,
in company with his brother, John, who
was a carpenter by trade, went to Avon,
Illinois, where his uncle, Samuel Yeomans,
was then living. In that city Abram G.
Hopper engaged in business on his own ac-
count, contracting for mason work, this en-
terprise proving successful and remunera-
tive, and he continued along the same line
there until the year 1879, when he came to
Paterson, New Jersey, on a visit, and while
there formed a partnership with his cousin,
Jacob Steel, engaging in a contracting bus-
iness. Both of the partners being thorough
business men, well grounded in their par-
ticular line, expert and enterprising, thor-
oughly competent to cope with every ob-
stacle in their path, the undertaking met
with a large degree of success, in course
of time becoming the largest in its line in
the city of Paterson, having the contract
for the erection of the majority of the prin-
cipal buildings in and about Paterson, as
well as many in other cities and States.
The following is a list of the most noted :
The Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering
at Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jer-
sey ; Hopper Building in Paterson : Dan-
forth Public Library ; Arnold building ;
Citizens' Trust Company building ; Cohen
building: the News Printing and Publish-
ing Company building: Schwarzschild &
Sulzberger Company building ; Ball build-

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ing ; Nathan building ; Albert Tint build-
ing; Williams building; Kinsella building;
Ulrich building; Simon building; many of
the public school and other public build-
ings ; Isaac A. Hall's mills ; F. Harding &
Sons' factory ; Paterson Gas Office ; Young
Men's Christian Association building; Mo-
saic Hall ; Park Avenue Baptist Church ;
Western Methodist Episcopal Church ; Riv-
erside Reformed Church ; and the resi-
dences of Dr. O'Donnell, J. Leville Greggs,
J. H. Steel and Abram G. Hopper. These
buildings, which rank among the best in
Paterson, stand as a monument to the skill
and ability of the firm of which Mr. Hop-
per was a member. The plant and lumber
yards were located at Nos. 46-48 North
Second street, Paterson, and the name of
Mr. Hopper was well and favorably known
in business circles for three decades. He
was a man capable of managing extensive
business interests, conducted his affairs on
terms that were fair alike to employer and
employee, and thus avoided troubles so
common in these days. He was systematic
and methodical in the conduct of his busi-
ness, and this orderly precision was one of
the features in the prosperity that attended
his well-directed efforts. As the years pasj-
ed the business grew to mammoth propor-
tions, and ranked among the leading and
representative industries of Paterson. For
many years he also operated a brick yard,
being the proprietor of the same at the
time of his death, which was a remunera-
tive source of income.

Mr. Hopper was courteous, genial and
obliging, and these qualities rendered him
very popular, so that his circle of friends
was very extensive. He took a keen- inter-
est in local affairs, and was elected on the
Democratic ticket to the office of freehold-
er, in which capacity he served for one
term, performing his duties satisfactorily.
He was a director of the Paterson Sanitary
Company, organized for the purpose of re-
moving the garbage of Paterson, and for

about five years Mr. Hopper served as su-
perintendent of the same, his tenure of of-
fice being noted for efficiency and capabili-
ty. He was a member of the Paterson Bus-
iness Men's Association, in which he took
an active interest. He was a constant at-
tendant of the Second Reformed Church,
for thirty years and finally became a mem-
ber ; a member of the Order of Free and
Accepted Masons, Mason's Union, and the
Royal Arcanum. He was a great lover of
horses, of which he was an excellent judge,
being considered an authority on the sub-
ject, and he was the possessor of fine driv-
ing teams which were often seen in Pater-
son and vicinity.

Mr. Hopper married. April 28, 1880,
Sarah Ann Pulis, of Ramsey, New Jersey,
a daughter of William and Maria (Mow-
erson) Pulis. Children: Maria L., who
became the wife of Edward Kuhl Conine,
of Trenton, New Jersey; Sarah, deceased;
Anna May. deceased ; Garrett, deceased ;
Serena Beatrice; Annetta Roseland;
Abram G. Jr. ; Emerald Jacob. Mr. Hop-
per took an unusual interest in his home
and family, spending all his leisure time
there, and was ever a loving husband, af-
fectionate father, ever thoughtful and con-
siderate of the comfort of those dependent
upon him. Mr. Hopper died at his home
in Paterson, January 5. 1910, and later his
widow sold his business interest to his
partner, Mr. Steel.

Such is the brief review of the career of
one who achieved not only honorable suc-
cess and high standing among men, but
whose entire life was irreproachably cor-
rect, so that his character was blameless.
His life record demonstrated the fact that
success depends not upon circumstances or
environment, but upon the man, and the
prosperous citizens are those who are able
to recognize and improve their opportuni-
ties, as was the case with the late Mr. Hop-
per.

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BENNETT, David Horton,

Manufacturer, Enterprising Citizen.

From the beginning of his active life un-
til his death, David Horton Bennett was
associated with glass manufacture, the last
thirty years of his life being passed as senior
member of the firm of G. S. Bennett Com-
pany, manufacturers of window glass and
paints, located at No. 112 and 114 North
Ninth street. He was a native of New
Jersey, and Collingswood, Camden county,
was his home at the time of his death, al-
though Philadelphia had long been the scene
of his business activity. Business associates
of Philadelphia and intimates in social and
civic life in Collingswood remember him as
a Christian gentleman of high ideals and
worthy life, a man who lived for the best
and in whom there was no intentional fault.
David Horton Bennett was a son of Wil-
liam and Eliza (Pheifer) Bennett ; his uncle,
Levi Pheifer, a former sheriff of Camden
county, and, with Isaac Collings and Mr.
Gibbs, one of the founders of the Collings-
wood Methodist Episcopal Church.

David Horton Bennett was born in Cum-
berland, Cumberland county, New Jersey,
February 5, 1848, and when he was five
years old was taken by his parents to Wins-
low, New Jersey, where he attended the
public schools. At the completion of his
studies he became a glass blower, learning
this trade under Andrew K. Hay, and from
this time he was interested in the manu-
facture and marketing of glass. About
1883 Mr. Bennett and his eldest son George
founded the G. S. Bennett Company, manu-
facturers of window glass and paints and
dealers in painters' supplies, their place of
business at No. 112 and 114 North Ninth
street. After a number of years George
Bennett retired from this line, his place in
the firm being taken by Mr. Bennett's
youngest son Frank, who was associated
with his father until the latter's death and
who now continues the business. Mr. Ben-
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interests, operated a glass manufacturing
plant at Millville, New Jersey, also head-
ing a third enterprise at Spring City, New
Jersey, the last organized as a stock com-
pany, of which he was president. Upright
integrity and unswerving devotion to fair
dealing were the leading characteristics of
his daily business transactions, and in his
long career he achieved a reputation which
only honor and the strictest of probity can
gain. His responsibilities were borne faith-
fully and capably, and in any enterprise
with which he was connected his was a
leading mind and a willing hand.

Mr. Bennett was a member of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, and supported the
Republican party with his vote, although
never a candidate for or an occupant of
official position. He was allied with every
progressive and uplifting movement in his
town, and with constructive public spirit
worked for its advancement and improve-
ment.

He married Anna M. Abel, of Hammon-
ton, New Jersey, daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Wells) Abel, and had chil-
dren : George S., married Annie Ber-
ger ; Laura G., married Robert Pond ;
Harry, married Margaret Simpler ; Frank,
married Clara McNelly ; and Lillian K.,
unmarried. Mrs. Bennett survives her hus-
band and resides in Collingswood, New Jer-
sey.

DELP, James A. H.,

Manufacturer, Public Official.

A man of action, of business talents and
untiring energy, of actual achievements
that have advanced the wealth and prosper-
ity of the community, of undoubted public
spirit, is a very fair description of the late
James A. H. Delp, for many years of
Trenton, New Jersey. He was prominent
among the business men of Trenton who
contributed energy and ability of a high
order to the development of the city, and
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faculty of business imagination which is
at the back of all large operations of a
business nature. Not content with the
humdrum methods of the conservative man-
ufacturer, he organized schemes that put
his work on a level with business cam-
paigns of the first order. The propor-
tionate increase in the volume of business
transacted was phenomenal. In addition to
being a shrewd and successful man of busi-
ness, Mr. Delp acquired an honorable repu-
tation as a citizen of much public spirit,
and enjoyed the esteem and confidence of
all with whom he had relations. While
his family was a comparatively new one
in the State of New Jersey, it had long
been resident in America.

The pioneer ancestor of the family was
George Delp, who came to this country
from Rotterdam, in the ship "Thistle," and
arrived at Philadelphia, October 28, 1738.
He located in Franconia township, now
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, became
a large land owner there, and also acquired
much property in Hilltown township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania. He and a number of
his descendants lie buried in an old bury-
ing ground known as "Delp's Grave Yard."
in the northwestern part of Franconia
township. George Delp, son of the pioneer,
located in Hilltown township. George
Delp, son of the second George Delp, was
born in Hilltown township, removed to
Bedminster Township in 1806. and died
there, January i, 1830. He married Mar-
garet Eydem and had five children. George
Delp, in all probability a nephew of the
third George Delp. and a descendant in
the fourth generation from the pioneer,
George Delp, was of Bucks county, Penn-
sylvania, where he married Elizabeth Spece.

James A. H. Delp, son of George and
Elizabeth (Spece) Delp. was born at Chal-
font, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Decem-
ber 16, 1845, and died at n's home in Tren-
ton, New Jersey, suddenly. February 9,
1915. He acquired a sound, practical edu-
cation in his native town, and then removed

to Trenton with his parents, with which
city his interests were identified until his
death. There he learned his trade under
the auspices of the late Cornelius Vansant,
whose place of business was located on the
present site of Kolb's bakery. Beginning
the manufacture of farming implements on
a small scale. Air. Delp gradually enlarged
his business operations, until his concern
was one of the most important in this line
in the section, and added to it the business
of a contractor, in which he was equally
successful. For a period of more than forty
years he manufactured farming implements
and pumps, during the greater part of this
time being located at No. 335 Pennington
avenue. But it was not alone in the busi-
ne-s world that Mr. Delp established a
reputation for himself. The public affairs
of the community were given his deep and
serious attention, greatly to the benefit of
those living in it. As a consistent member
of the Republican party, he served three
terms in the common council of the city,
his election being practically unanimous, as
the Democratic party would nominate no
candidate to oppose him, ample testimony
to the esteem in which he was held by all.
During his second term he served as a mem-
ber of the committees on the poor, city
hall, board of trade and parks. Many years
ago he was a member of the county com-
mittee, and was largely instrumental in hav-
ing a part of Ewing township annexed to
Trenton, thus adding to the area and im-
portance of the city. He was appointed
delegate to the National Rivers and Har-
bors Congress held in Washington, District
of Columbia, December 3-4-5, 1913, but
business reasons prevented his participa-
tion in these meetings. Philanthropic and
charitable to a degree. Mr. Delp did not
confine his liberal donations to charitable
institutions, but his private generosity was
of so unostentatious a nature, that it was
but rarely that any save the recipients of
his bounty, knew of it. Only the large
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who attended his funeral services spoke
eloquently of his charity. The Lutheran
church is greatly indebted to the liberality
of Mr. Delp. For many years he was a
member of Christ Church, and was active
in its interests. Later, when Grace Church,
at Hillcrest, a suburb of Trenton, was or-
ganized, in which proceeding Mr. Delp was
an important factor, Mr. Delp affiliated with
that, for a long time gave his services in
the responsible office of superintendent of
the Sunday school. Every pastor who came
to Trenton found in him a liberal supporter
and a friend on whom he could rely in
every way. While Mr. Delp was a well
known figure in the social life of the city.
as befitted a man of his means and in-
fluence, he found his chief source of pleas-
ure in the home circle, and in the society
of a few chosen friends. Rarely was any
of his leisure time spent away from home.
Mr. Delp married Anne E. Biddle. also
a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania.
who survives him with their children : Mrs.
W. A. Lebernight, Mrs. U. E. Apple, of
Red Lion; Frances C. and Hiram A., of
Trenton. Four brothers and three sisters of
Mr. Delp are also living.

ROW, James W.,

Prominent Bank Official.

James W. Row, late of Paterson, New
Jersey, was one of those men whose value
to the community is hardly to be gauged
by the positions they hold or the offices in
which they have served. The weight and
force of a fine example is of a benefit to
a community not to be estimated in figures,
nor set forth exactly in words, and to this
class of men belonged the late James W.
Row. He was a son of William Row, of
the firm of Daggers & Row, bobbin mak-
ers, well known in their day in Paterson.

James W. Row was born in Paterson,
New Jersey, September 25, 1850, and died
May 1 6, 1913- His earlier education was
acquired in the public schools of his native

city, where he displayed unusual ability in
all mathematical studies, and this was sup-
plemented by a comprehensive course at the
Bryant & Stratton Business College in New
York City. L:pon the completion of hi-
education he obtained a position with the
firm of Valentine & Company, in New
York City, having become an expert ac-
countant. His next field of activity was in
the office of the clerk of Passaic county,
New Jersey, which position he held until
he accepted the position of bookkeeper in
the Second National Bank of Paterson in
1871. It was not long before he succeed-
ed David Barnet as cashier in this institu-
tion, an office he filled with ability for more
than fifteen years. When he retired from
this position in March. 1891, the Director-
of the bank presented him with a handsome
silver service. While Mr. Row was cashier,
the other officers of the bank were : James
Jackson, president ; F. C. Van Dyk, vice-
president ; William D. Blauvelt, assistant
cashier. The bank had been established by
George M. Simpson and others as the Pas-
saic County Bank, in 1865. It passed into the
hands of James Jackson and others in 1871,
and was reorganized as the Passaic County
National Bank. In 1874 Congress passed
an act making it the Second National Bank
of Paterson.

As an attendant of the Baptist church.
Mr. Row was a liberal contributor to it-
support, as, indeed, he was also to numer-
ous charitable undertakings. He never as-
pired to public office, but gave his staunch
support to the Republican party. He \va-
of an intensely patriotic nature, and was
one of the original members of the Phelps
Guards of Paterson. He was a member of
Monitor Lodge, No. 219, Independent Or-
der of Odd Fellows, had held all the chairs
in this order, and was always active in its
service.

Mr. Row married, September 24, 1873.
Sophia Dougherty, a daughter of Joseph
and Caroline (Spear) Dougherty, and a
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of Paterson. Children : Martha, who mar-
ried George M. Rusling, and has two chil-
dren : Thelma and Earl ; William, a mer-
chant in Paterson ; Joseph D., cashier of
the Public Service Company at Passaic,
New Jersey. Mrs. Row still lives at No.
269 Park avenue, Paterson.

Mr. Row had a cheerful, friendly dis-
position, and a finely developed character.
He had gained an enviable position, and
had implanted himself firmly in all that was
best in business, in civic and in religious
matters. His death deprived many inter-
ests of a potent factor for good, and his
associates and friends of a strong and lov-
ing character.

MELLSOP, John,

Leading Importer, Ideal Citizen.

In a long life of eighty-five years, John
Mellsop, long a prominent tea importer of
Philadelphia, completed the cycle of condi-
tions and experiences that attend the
achievement of fortune and position from
humble estate. Coming to the United States
from Ireland, his birthplace, in his youth,
his only assets strong health and physical
vigor, in Philadelphia he rose to important
place in the tea trade and for many years
was one of the two heads of the firm of
James A. Aull & Company. With Mr.
Aull he retired from business in his later
years, took up his residence in Haddonfield.
New Jersey, and there passed his remain-
ing years. He took with him to the quiet
of his rural home the regard and respect of
his business associates, gained through years
of upright and honorable transactions.

John Mellsop, of Scotch Irish ancestry,
was born at Belfast, Londonderry county,
Ireland, December 9, 1827, son of Charles
and Eliza (Bryson) Mellsop. His father,
Charles Mellsop, died January 2. 1835, his
mother, whom Charles Mellsop married
November 3, 1820, dying March 8, 1832.
John Mellsop attended the public schools
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year, when he entered upon an apprentice-
ship with Hugh and Thomas Bellas, dealers
in hardware, his indenture papers calling
for five years service. This term he com-
pleted, but immediately afterward put into
action a plan he had formulated in that
time, immigration to the United States.
Arriving in Philadelphia after a long sail
of several months, he at once sought work.
The impulse that drove him from his native
land was one of restless ambition that saw
no opportunity for gratification in Ireland,
and when on American shores he accepted
the first position that was open to him, that
of porter in a large tea importing house.
His strength and agility were the qualifica-
tions that won him this position, but it so
chanced that he had immediately found the
field in which he was destined to continue.

Faithfulness and industry found their
due reward in sucessive promotions, and
his close attention and devotion to the in-
terests of the house caused those in au-
thority above him to repose in him unbound-
ed confidence and to place upon his shoul-
ders weighty responsibility. Admission to
the firm was at length offered him, the title
of the concern, which had formerly been
Clark & Aull, then becoming James A. Aull
& Company. As partner Mr. Mellsop exert-
ed even greater efforts for the success and
prosperity of the business than he had put
forth as trusted employee, and for nearly
half a century the house of James A. Aull
& Company held a position of leadership
in the tea importing trade in Philadelphia.
The business, located on South Front street,
was dissolved in the height of its success-
ful existence, when Mr. Aull and Mr. Mell-
sop felt that the cares of its management
were too weighty for their increasing years.

A resident of Philadelphia for the greater
part of his life, Mr. Mellsop made the at-
tractions of his retirement complete by his
reshience in the beautiful and historic town
of Haddonfield, New Jersey, a short dis-
tance across the Delaware from the scene
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terian in religious belief, and throughout
his entire life took a worker's part in that
denomination. For a number of years he
served the Fourth Presbyterian Church of
Philadelphia as elder, and was long con-
nected with its Sunday school in the ca-
pacity of superintendent. In Haddonfield
he became affiliated with the First Church.
He supported church organizations with
his means and services, and in a quiet and
unostentatious manner gave liberally to
many charities. His responsibilities to-
ward his fellow men, and particularly to-
ward those to whom fortune had been less
kind than to him, were met in a manly and
sympathetic manner. He died, February
13, 1912, as he had lived, a Christian gentle-
man.

John Mellsop married Sophia Cunning-
ham, born in Ireland, who came to the
United States shortly after his arrival. They
were the parents of one daughter, Elizabeth
Anne, who married the late Charles Jordan,
of Philadelphia, and now resides in Had-
donfield, the mother of two daughters, Ethel
and Hazel.

BREAKENRIDGE, John H.,

Man of Large Affairs.

The name of John H. Breakenridge will
be remembered as typical of that high or-
der of citizenship the members of which,
as a class, are, perhaps, the most valuable
section of the community, the citizenship
which, while taking an active interest in all
matters of the common weal, social, finan-
cial and political, and participating in the
active life of the world as far as private
duties demand, yet prefers to remain aloof
from the contaminating influences of pub-
lic life, content to impress itself upon the
environment through a judicious but firm
expression of opinion, and a consistent ad-
herence to its own ideals of virtue and hon-
or. In the case of Mr. Breakenridge, the
Republican party, with which he was affil-
iated, often pressed warmly upon him many

of the offices within its gift, yet not less
frequently did he refuse the proffered dis-
tinction.

Mr. Breakenridge was a native of New
York City, where he was born November
12, 1862, a son of Andrew and Elizabeth
Taylor Breakenridge of that city, yet his
life was nevertheless identified with New-
ark, the city of his adoption, where he liv-
ed and carried on his business, and with
whose social life he was associated. When
he was still a little child, his father moved
to the latter place, and here, in the public
schools of the region, he gained his edu-
cation. When the time came for forming
business connections, Mr. Breakenridge
entered the employ of the great Lister
Chemical Works, where he gained such a
reputation for probity and business acu-
men that he later was chosen manager of
the huge Lister estate, a position he held
for many years. On March 20, 1889, he
formed a partnership in real estate and in-
surance with Mr. Halsey Tichenor, and
this connection continued until the time of
his death. From the start, the firm was
eminently successful and later grew to be
one of the wealthiest of its kind in the city.

Mr. Breakenridge was married to Miss
Emily Wood, a daughter of Isaac and
Katherine (Mattershead) Wood, and their
union was blessed with one son, John H.
Breakenridge, born December 27, 1892, who
now is grown to early manhood.

The great variety of Mr. Breakenridge's
activities and interests is nowhere better
evidenced than in a recital of the various
organizations of which he was a member.
It has already been mentioned that he was
a Republican of sufficient prominence to
be frequently urged to hold office. He was
also a member of the Newark Board of
Trade, a member of Trinity Church, a trus-
tee of St. Barnabas Hospital and a mem-
ber of the Baltusrol and Forest Hill Golf
clubs.

The death of Mr. Breakenridge occurred
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forty-five years old, in the midst of a
career, which, already successful, gave
ample promise of increasing usefulness and
influence. He left a name which will not
cease to be remembered with affection by
his friends and with respect by the whole
community.

LAMBERT, George Henry,

Civil War Veteran, Enterprising Citizen.

In the death of George Henry Lambert,
brevet major of United States Volunteers,
the city of New Brunswick, New Jersey,
lost one of its most devoted citizens, and
the community in general an esteemed and
honored fellow worker. He was a son of
George and Caroline (Haskell) Lambert,
the former born in Dublin, April 9, 1809,
the latter born in Newbury, June 26, 1808,
died July 2, 1839. The Lambert family is
a very ancient one, and originated as fol-
lows :

The name was formerly spelled Lom-
bard, and some branches still retain this
form. The earliest accounts of the Lom-
bards indicate that they were a roving clan
from Scandinavia (Norway), that they
settled and lived for a time in Vindili fin
Germany), until, attracted by the fine plains
of Modena, they quit their mountain fast-
nesses, and took possession of and found-
ed one of the most powerful states in
Italy. The significance of the name Lom-
bard in their language was "long beard," as
history informs us that the members of this
clan parted their hair and suffered it to
grow to whatever length it might attain.
From this circumstance the ancient state
in which they established themselves took
its name. When William the Conqueror in-
vaded England, he took with him Rodolph
de Lambert, as his armor bearer or knight
at arms. His name appears to indicate that
his family was from Lombardy, as the "de"
signifies "from" or "of." It appears by
English heraldry that Rodolph de Lambert
had a family in Normandy prior to going

into England. "Of this ancient family of
Norman-French extraction, one branch set-
tled in Bologna in Italy, and has always
been considered one of the most illustrious
in that place. Cardinal Lambertini of this
family was elected Bishop of Rome, 1730,
and took the title of Benedict XIV. He
claims relationship with the family of the
Earl of Craven, whose descent is traced
from Rodolph de Lambert, who went to
England with William the Conqueror.''
Rodolph de Lambert left one son, Hugh,
and from him are descended all of the sur-
name in England and North America.
Hugh, had by his wife, Matilda, Sir Wil-
liam, his heir, who married Gundred.
daughter of the Earl of Warren and Sur-
rey, by Gundred, fourth daughter of Wil-
liam the Conqueror, and widow of Robert
de Bellamont, Earl of Warwick. By her
he had a son, Henry, standard bearer to
Henry II. He married Alice, sister of Wil-
liam Manderville, Earl of Essex. He had
a son, John, who settled in Skipton, in
York, and who had two sons, Sir Edmund
and Thomas, and from these there descend-
ed many.

George Henry Lambert was born in
Newburyport, Massachusetts, July 14,
1837, and died at his home in New Bruns-
wick, New Jersey. February 19, 1910. His
education was a liberal one, and was ac-
quired in schools in his native town, and
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the early
seventies he removed to New Brunswick,
New Jersey, where he became greatly in-
terested in farming operations for some
time. In connection with this line of indus-
try he became the secretary of the Mid-
dlesex Farmers' Club, in which office he
rendered excellent service. Subsequently
he was a member of the staff of the "Home
News" for a number of years, and finally
became associated with the Janeway & Car-
penter Company, manufacturers of wall
paper, as secretary of the corporation, and
was the incumbent of this office at the time
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He was a devout and consistent member of
Christ Episcopal Church of New Bruns-
wick. Mr. Lambert married, December
10, 1900, Antonia, a daughter of Gustavus
and Emma (Hauffbauer) Fischer. He had
no children. The military career of Brevet
Major Lambert is an interesting one, and
is given in the words of the Report of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
LTnited States, in which organization he
took a deep interest, and rarely failed to
attend its meetings :

"George H. Lambert was appointed from civil
life a first lieutenant in the Ii6th United States
Infantry, and was mustered into service as such
August 14, 1864, at Camp Nelson, Kentucky.
During September and October of 1864 he took
part with his company and three other com-
panies of his regiment, in the expedition under
General Burbridge. which sought to destroy the
Confederate salt works in Southwest Virginia,
and the East Tennessee & Virginia railroad.
Upon the return of his command to Camp Nel-
son, it was ordered to rejoin the regiment which
it did at Chapin's Farm, Virginia, in front of
Richmond, early in November, 1864, and became
a part of the loth Army Corps. Upon the or-
ganization of the 25th Army Corps, the Il6th
U. S. C. Infantry became a part of the Second
Division of this corps, and was included in the
Army of the James. Lieutenant Lambert serv-
ed with his regiment in the siege of Richmond
until March 25, 1865; was with it in the move-
ment of part of the Army of the James to the
vicinity of Hatcher's Run. Virginia, on the left
of the Army of the Potomac ; took part in the
capture of the outer defences of Petersburg,
April 3rd, and then, under Sheridan and Ord,
took up the rapid pursuit of Lee. which ended
in his surrender at Appomattox Court House,
on April 9, 1865. On April 8th. his regiment
made a march of forty-seven miles and halted
at one o'clock in the morning of April pth about
three miles from Appomattox Court House. In
the early morning of April 9th. General Gordon,
commanding the Confederate advance, sought
to move out of Appomattox Court House
toward Lynchburg, when he soon encountered
out Cavalry and the Infantry Divisions of the
24th and 25th Corps were sent forward on the
double quick to meet him and stop his advance,
which they soon did, and the surrender of Gen-
eral Lee and his army followed soon thereafter.
On April nth the regiment began its re-

turn march to City Point, Virginia, where it re-
mained until May 26th, when it embarked with
the rest of the 25th Army Corps tor Texas and
disembarked at Brazos Santiago, 1 exas, June 23,
1865 Lieutenant Lambert was promoted to cap-
tain. May 22, 1865, and on July 6th was assign-
ed to the command of Company D of his reg-
iment. He served with it at Roma and White's
Ranch, Texas, until September, 1866, and at
New Orleans, Louisianna, from September 29,
1866, until his regiment was mustered out of
service at New Orleans, January 17, 1867. He
was breveted major for faithful and meritor-
ious services."

BARRETT, Col. Michael T.,

Lawyer. Financier, Legislator.

It cannot be denied that the members of
the legal fraternity are more prominent ac-
tors in public affairs than any other class
of the community, this being but the
natural result of causes which are mani-
fest and require no explanation. The abil-
ity and training which qualify a man to
practice law also qualify him in many re-
spects for duties which are outside the
strict path of his profession, and which
touch the general interests of society. Hav-
ing held marked precedence among the
members of the bar in New Jersey, was the
late Ex-State Senator Michael T. Barrett,
of Newark, who was distinguished for
mental clearness and vigor and for high
standards of professional honor. He was a
son of Timothy Barrett, a hatter by trade,
and one of the pioneer Catholic settlers in
New Jersey.

Michael T. Barrett was born August 9,
1856, on the Barrett homestead, which is
now in Woodside township, but was at that
time a part of Belleville. His death oc-
curred at his summer home at Elberon,
New Jersey, June 7, 1914, after an illness
of about two years' duration. His elemen-
tary education was obtained in a school in
Belleville, and he then became a pupil in
St. Patrick's Cathedral School, then known
as the Christian Brothers' School. This
was located several miles from the home

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of Mr. Barrett, and he walked this distance
every day in the company of several
friends, among them being Judge Thomas
J. Lintott. Upon leaving this institution,
Mr. Barrett matriculated at St. Benedict's
College, and when he had finished his stud-
ies there, entered a broker's office, where
he was busied for a period of five years,
during which time he utilized all his spare
moments in broad and diversified reading.
Having decided that he was best fitted for
legal work he engaged in the study of law
with the earnestness which characterized
all he undertook, and was admitted to prac-
tice at the bar in 1879. During his earlier
years as an attorney he was obliged to en-
counter the difficulties usually in store for
beginners in this field who are without in-
fluence, but his ambition and indomitable
energy overcame all obstacles, and gradu-
ally success came to him. For more than
thirty years he was the town counsel of
Harrison, being still in practice in this of-
fice at the time of his death, and during
this long period of time had kept the town
free from litigation. As a mark of appre-
ciation of these services, the town council
had on several occasions wished to increase
his salary, but Mr. Barrett had consistently
refused. He was the counsel for the
United States Brewing Association, and in
this capacity went to England and sold >ev-
eral millions of dollars worth of association
stock control to a British syndicate. He
was counsel and director of the German
Savings Bank of Newark, for twenty-five
years counsel of the Belleville Building and
Loan Association, and counsel for the fol-
lowing corporations individually : Gott-
fried Krueger Brewing Company, Peter
Hauck & Company, the Home Brewing
Company, the Essex Brewing Company,
Lyons' Brewery, Christian Feigenspan, In-
corporated. LTnion Brewing Company, and
the Eagle Brewing Company.

In 1886 Mr. Barrett was elected to the
State Assembly from what was at that
time the Fifth District, receiving a plurali-

ty of 437. The following year he was a
Democratic candidate for the State Senate,
but was defeated by a Republican, plurali-
ty of 1029. In 1890 he was again the Dem-
ocratic candidate for the State Senate, was
elected by a majority of 1961, being the
first Democrat to be elected to that office
in thirty years. Upon the expiration of
his term of office he was renominated, but
the panic which swamped the Democratic
party in 1893 caused his defeat. During
his term as State Senator, Mr. Barrett
served on many important committees a.id,
when Governor Abbett commenced his sec-
ond term of office, he at once appointed
.Mr. Barrett a member of his personal staff,
v.-ith the honorary rank of colonel. When
Governor Werts entered upon the duties
of his office, he conferred a similar ap-
pointment and rank upon Mr. Barrett. For
the sixteen years that the Democratic party
was out of power, Mr. Barrett devoted his
time and attention wholly to his profession-
al work. Governor John Franklin Fort
appointed him a trustee of the State Re-
formatory at Rahway, he was reappointed
by Governor Woodrow Wilson, and his
term of office would have expired in 1916.

He married, in 1883, Catherine, a daugh-
ter of Peter Hauck, Sr., the well known
brewer of Harrison. They had one son:
Hugh C, who had been associatd with his
father as an attorney. Mr. Barrett was al-
so survived by a sister, Mrs. John Wade,
of Harrison.

The law offices of Mr. Barrett had al-
ways been located in the old Kinney build-
ing, and he took other offices elsewhere
only long enough to permit the new Kin-
ney building to be erected, when he return-
ed to that location. The death of Mr. Bar-
rett was a great shock in all circles in the
city, although it had been known that he
was a sufferer for at least two years. His
was a nature of such courage and deter-
mination that he fought illness inch by inch,
long after many a man might have suc-
cumbed. Through all the varied responsi-

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bilities of life he acquitted himself with
dignity, fidelity and honor, winning the ap-
probation and esteem of opponents as well
as friends. Eminently democratic in his
manners and associations, he was cool, cal-
culating and safe in all he undertook, a
man of strong and clear convictions, the
result of independent thought and careful
study. His culture and refinement, coupled
with his genial manners and the warmth of
his attachment toward friends, secured for
him a high place in the affection and es-
teem of his circle of acquaintance. His
heart was ever in sympathy with the sor-
rows of others, and his hand ready to con-
tribute to the alleviation of distress. He
was a plain man whom prosperity had not
elated, and who looked with pride to his
early life with its hardships and.. struggles.
He labored, and not in vain, for the wel-
fare of the city in which he resided.

McPHERSON, John Roderick,

Financier, Legislator.

John Roderick McPherson was born
May 9, 1833, in York, Livingston county,
New York, of pure Scotch parentage. His
grandfather, James McPherson, had come
from Culloden, Scotland, in 1801, and set-
tled in Delhi. New York, and his father,
Donald McPherson, married Jean Calder,
whose parents had also come from Scot-
land.

Mr. McPherson gained his education in
the public schools and later in the Geneseo
Academy. He became interested in stock
raising and, upon graduating from this in-
stitution, he took up the same as a business
and engaged in it successfully until his
twenty-sixth year. He then removed to
Jersey City (then Hudson City) and fol-
lowing up his interest, became a dealer in
cattle, an important industry of the place.
In that city, in 1863-4, he constructed the
city stock yards, of which he became part
owner. He also designed and built the
enormous stock yards and abattoir at Har-

simus Cove, New Jersey, for many years
the finest in existence. These great yards
cover an area of twenty-two acres, over
which entire region the tide ebbs and flows.
There is storage capacity here for seven
thousand head of cattle and twenty thous-
and sheep, and a slaughtering capacity of
two thousand cattle and ten thousand sheep
daily. Mr. McPherson was keenly alive to
the abuses existing at that time in the trans-
portation and storage of cattle, and it was
to remedy these that his inventive genius
and resources were called into play. Be-
sides the improved yards and abattoirs
which he devised, and which revolutioniz-
ed these constructions, he also invented a
new form of stock car in which it was pos-
sible to feed and water the animals en
route, and which have now come into prac-
tically universal use. Mr. McPherson be-
came in course of time wealthy from his
various enterprises, and his probity and
business acumen brought his services into
great demand, so that he served upon vari-
ous boards and committees in connection
with many business concerns. He found-
ed the Peoples' Gas Light Company of
Hudson City, and served as the first pres-
ident for a number of years. He was very
active in politics also and was a member
of the board of aldermen of Hudson City
from 1863 to 1869, and president of that
body for the last three years. In 1872 he
was elected on the Democratic ticket to the
State Legislature, an office he held for three
years. During this time he took a strong
stand against the undue encroachments of
the great railroad monopolies in the State
and was instrumental in securing the pas-
sage of the general railroad law governing
these bodies. In 1877 he was elected by
the State Legislature to the United States
Senate to succeed the Hon. Frederick T.
Frelinghuysen, and was twice reelected,
occupying this high office from 1877 to
1895. and during his third term was chosen
chairman of the Senate committee on naval
affairs. He was offered the Secretaryship

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of the Treasury, but declined this honor,
and two years after the expiration of his
term as Senator he died, October 8, 1897.

DICKINSON, Gen. Samuel Meredith,

Naval Officer, Lawyer, Law Official.

The late General Samuel Meredith
Dickinson, of New Jersey, one of the fore-
most members of the bar of the State of
New Jersey, was endowed with the mental
gifts of the highest order, and in the prac-
tice of his profession he found full scope
for their use to the best advantage of the
important matters with which he was con-
nected. Patriotic and loyal in the utmost
degree, he was a worthy descendant of his
distinguished ancestry. He was a son of
Philemon and Margaret C. C. (Gobert)
Dickinson ; a great-grandson of General
Philemon Dickinson, the famous Revolu-
tionary soldier, patriot and statesman ;
great-great-grandson of Chief-Justice Sam-
uel and Mary (Cadwalader) Dickinson;
great-grandnephew of John Dickinson,
LL.D., member of the Continental Con-
gress, governor of Delaware and Pennsyl-
vania, and one of the founders of Dickin-
son College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, this in-
stitution being named in his honor ; and a
descendant of Samuel Meredith, first treas-
urer of the United States.

General Samuel Meredith Dickinson was
born June 25, 1839, in the historical man-
sion, "The Hermitage," West State street
and Hermitage avenue, Trenton, which
was the country residence of his ancestor,
Philemon Dickinson. He was educated at
the old Trenton Academy at which many
residents of the city were trained, which
was located on the present site of the Free
Public Library. During 1856 and 1857 he
was engaged in the mercantile business in
New York, then returned to Trenton and
commenced the study of law in the office
of the Hon. Mercer Beasley, later Chief
Justice, and he remained there until 1861.
The outbreak of the Civil War caused a

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change in his plans, and in June, 1861, he
was appointed paymaster in the United
States Navy. In this capacity he served on
the sloop of war "Dale," which was attach-
ed to the North Atlantic Squadron, and
commanded by Admiral Dupont. In 1862
the vessel returned to Philadelphia, and
General Dickinson, at that time colonel,
was honorably discharged.

The following year he was appointed
private secretary to Governor Joel Parker,
and served throughout the term, assisting
in the duties which devolved upon the exe-
cutive who, in addition to his work as gov-
ernor, superintended and audited all of the
State's war expenditures. Meanwhile he
continued the study of law, and in June,
1863, he was admitted to practice as an at-
torney, and three years later as a counsel-
or. In 1865 he was commissioned Colonel
and Assistant Adjutant-General under
General Robert F. Stockton, Jr., in recog-
nition of his services to the State during
the war. General Dickinson received this
appointment under a new law reorganizing
the National Guard of the State, and held
the position until 1893 when he was com-
missioned brigadier-general by brevet, and
retired.

In 1867, when the position of Comptrol-
ler of the Treasury was established, he was
made deputy under William X. McDonald,
and remained throughout the term. In
1871 he entered upon the office of chief
clerk of the Court of Chancery, and con-
tinued to perform the responsible duties of
this position, for which his extended
knowledge of chancery practice eminently
fitted him, until his death. He was the au-
thor of two valuable works on law ques-
tions. One was "Chancery Precedents,"
published in 1870, and the other was "Pro-
bate Court Practice," published in 1884.
These works are accepted as standard au-
thorities by both bench and bar throughout
the State. After the death of Judge Stew-
art in 1890. General Dickinson became
chancery court reporter, compiling and

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publishing, for the twenty-one Volumes of
the official reports of that Court. He was
an advisory Master in Chancery, and in
that capacity frequently sat to hear cases
referred to him by the Chancellor. Gener-
al Dickinson was a noted authority on
equity law, and was so regarded by the
whole bar of the State. For many years
he held the position of president of the
New Jersey Society of the Sons of the Rev-
olution, and was a member of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion, Commandery
of Pennsylvania. He was treasurer of the
Trenton Battle Monument Association,
which was largely instrumental in erecting
the local battle monument.

General Dickinson married Garetta
Moore, of Newtown. Long Island, a mem-
ber of the old Moore family who were
among the first settlers of that place. He
had six children, five sons and a daughter.
Following are a few extracts from a Mem-
orial to General Dickinson, gotten and pub-
lished by the Commandery of the State of
Pennsylvania of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States :

As paymaster of the United States Navy, he
was attached to the sloop of war "Dale," and
served in the North and South Atlantic squad-
rons, chiefly under Admiral Dupont. He sail-
ed from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July,
1861, and was stationed off Newport News, Vir-
ginia, for a short time and was then ordered to
the South Atlantic, and performed blockade ser-
vice hetween Charleston. S. C, and Cape Can-
averal, his vessel capturing two blockade run-
ners. After the battle of Port Royal, his vessel
was put on blockade duty in St. Helena Sound,
and while there received Robert Small on his
escape from Charleston with the "Planter." The
"Dale" was then ordered North, and resigning,
he was honorably discharged, October 31, 1862,
having served with characteristic ability and fi-
delity.

In 186.=; he was appointed Assistant Adjutant
General, New Jersey, with the rank of colonel,
and contnued such until 1894, when he retired
as Brevet Brigadier General.

He was a member of Trinity Protestant Epis-
copal Church of Trenton, New Jersey, and long
was one of its honored vestrymen. He was a

ripe scholar and a Christian gentlemen, nottd
for his good ways and works.

Of distinguished ancestry, whose name was
indissolubly linked with that of his native city
and State for over a century, he maintained
jealously the high record of his forbears and
left an example all may well follow. It goes
without saying that he was the very soul of
honor and courtesy. He was patriotic, indus-
trious, and devoted to every duty, both public
and private. And it may be well said that in
many respects he was indeed an ideal Jersey-
and model American.

General Dickinson was a distinguished
citizen of Trenton and an exemplary State
official.

LEE, Francis Bazley,

I/awyer, Historian, Author.

To have achieved fame in one direction
is conceded to be an enviable condition by
the majority of human beings, but in the
late Francis Bazley Lee, of Trenton. New
Jersey, we have a man who attained emi-
nence as a historian, a lawyer, and as a
writer. In every one of these fields he was
undoubtedly successful, and in every in-
stance he always labored for the best in-
terests of humanity, with never a thought
of self-aggrandizement. His courage and
fearlessness, his personal self-sacrifice, his
executive ability and foresight, and his tal-
ent for conducting to a successful issue a
miriibtr of important affairs at the same
time, are well nigh unparalleled. It is dif-
ficult to estimate the value of the services
rendered by Mr. Lee. It is not alone by
what he did that results must be measured,
but by the influence his admirable life has
had upon others. Tender and loving in the
home circle, his heart was filled with love
toward all humanity. The excellent quali-
ties which characterized Mr. Lee were also
characteristic of his ancestors, and it will
not be amiss to here give a brief introduc-
tory account of them.

Francis Lee, original emigrant and
founder of the Port Elizabeth and Trenton

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branch of the family, was born in 1749.
His birthplace was in the "county of the
town of Carrickfergus," an Antrim sea-
port, ten miles from Belfast. Carrickfer-
gus is memorable in history as an ancient
capital of Ireland, and the landing place of
William III, 1690. Owing to the destruc-
tion of family papers there is no record of
Francis Lee's ancestors, although tradition
says they were non-conformists of Midland
English stock. Nothing is known of Fran-
cis Lee until November 21, 1770, when he
married fane Alexander, a school girl of
good family. With her, it is said, he elop-
ed to America, and is supposed to have ar-
rived at Philadelphia, where he soon com-
menced to acquire property. In 1774 he
paid a four-pound tax in the Chestnut ward
in Philadelphia, and is named among war-
rantees for thirty acres of land in North-
umberland county, Pennsylvania, and two
lots in Sunbury, the then recently settled
capital of the county. During the Revolu-
tionary War, Francis Lee prospered, and
towards its close he dealt actively in real
estate. In 1780 he purchased in Philadel-
phia the attainted Front street land of
George Knapper, and in 1782 acquired
large tracts in the Northern Liberties, on
the Wissahickon road and in Blockley
township on the Haverford road. These
and other transactions involved many
thousands of pounds, currency. From
1778 to 1787 he paid State and Federal
supply tax as a "non-resident" of North-
umberland county. He appears as "inn-
keeper" as early as 1774. Sharf and West-
cott are authority for the following state-
ment : "A movement was begun which
might have led to trouble if the city had
not changed hands so soon." ( This re-
fers to the British occupation). "It orig-
inated in a meeting held at the Indian
Queen (kept by Francis Lee) and the ob-
ject was to insist on exemption from mili-
tary duty for such as had furnished substi-
tutes."

Previous to this, however, the journals

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of the Continental Congress show that
Francis Lee had furnished the Whigs with
expresses, meals for soldiers, a stage coach
for the use of Generals Prescott and Mc-
Donald, and later had entertained John
Paul Jones. In the Philadelphia directory
for 1785 is to be found this reference:
"Francis Lee, inkeeper and every day stage
to and from New York, Corner of 4th and
Market street." The stage started every
morning at four o'clock from the "Indian
Queen." The "Indian Queen" had been
kept by Francis Lee until about this period.
Upon March 8, 1783, Jacob Berry, a sur-
veyor, conveyed to Francis Lee a tract of
land in Haverford township, Chester coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, and in 1786 or 1787,
Francis Lee removed from Philadelphia,
presumably to this purchase. Upon re-
linquishing the "Indian Queen" he surrend-
ered an inn property which was one of the
finest in Philadelphia. Some idea of the
house may be gathered from the journals
and correspondence of Manasseh Cutter,
agent of the Ohio Land Company, who vis-
ited Philadelphia in July, 1787. and says:
"It is kept in an elegant style and consists
of a large pile of buildings with many spa-
cious halls and numerous small apartments
appropriate for lodging rooms. As soon
as I had inquired of the bar keeper if I
could be furnished with lodgings, a livery
servant was ordered immediately to attend
me, who received my baggage from the
hostler and conducted me to the apartments
assigned me by the bar keeper, which was
a rather small but a very handsome cham-
ber (No. 9), furnished with a rich field
bed, bureau, table with drawers, a large
looking glass, neat chairs and other furni-
ture. It? front was east, and being in the
3rd floor afforded a fine prospect toward
the river and the Jersey shore. The serv-
ant that attended me was a young, spright-
ly, well built black fellow, neatly dressed,
blue coat, sleeves, and cape red. and buff
waistcoat and breeches, the bosom of his
shirt ruffled and his hair powdered. After

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he had brought up my baggage and prop-
erly deposited it in the chamber, he brought
two of the latest London magazines and
laid on the table. I ordered him to call a
barber, furnish me with a bowl of water
for washing and to have tea on the table
by the time I was dressed." Among the
famous visitors who were to be found dur-
ing this period in the "Indian Queen"
were : General Washington, and it was to
this inn he retired in 1797 after bidding
farewell to public life; Cornplanter, and
other notable Tammany chiefs ; members
of Congress ; and distinguished military
characters of the Revolution. The inn was
finally removed to make way for business
structures.

During the Revolutionary War, Francis
Lee appears as a private upon the roll of
Captain Tench Francis' company. First
Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia, August,
1781. (See vol. I, page 787, "Philadelphia
Associators and Militia;" vol. 13, page 128,
2nd series, Pennsylvania Archives). In
1781 Captain Francis' company brought to
Philadelphia from Boston the French gold
designed for the use of the Whigs. Con-
veying the fourteen wagons and fifty-six
oxen, Francis Lee, on account of his abili-
ty in matters of transportation, was engag-
ed in that service, the gold reaching Phila-
delphia in November. Francis Lee remov-
ed from Haverforrl township towards the
close of tHe century. July 11, 1796. John
Kennedy, of East Whiteland, Chester coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, conveyed a plantation to
him. May 20, 1800, Francis Lee was ap-
pointed justice for Tredyffryn, Charles-
town, East Whiteland and West White-
land, Chester county, the commission being
signed by Governor Thomas McKean.
Until his death he added to his landed in-
terests and was prominent as a breeder of
running horses. He was a member of the
Great Valley Presbyterian Church, died
April 30, 1815, and is buried in the church-
ynrd there.

Francis Lee married (first) Jane Alex-

ander, born about 1750, died about 1785,
and had eleven, children. (According to
vol. 9, 2nd series, Pennslyvania Archives,
a Francis Lee, December 16, 1792, married
Elizabeth Bache, in the First Presbyterian
Church in Philadelphia). In a real estate
transaction involving property in Blockley
township, March 25, 1791, "Elizabeth" is
given as the name of the wife of Francis
Lee, innholder. He married again, No-
vember 18, 1793, Margaretta Cloyd, born
August 1 8, 1771, died July 4, 1805, having
had five children. His last wife was Eliz-
abeth Cloyd, whose will was dated 1818.
By this marriage there were no children.

Thomas Lee, son of Francis and Jane
(Alexander) Lee, was born November 28,
1780, and died November 2, 1856. He
came to Cumberland county, about 1798,
and lived at Leesburg for a time. May 22,
1805, he married Rhoda Murphy, and liv-
ed for a short time with his brother-in-
law, Benjamin Fisler, a distinguished di-
.vine of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and a physician. Shortly afterward he built
a home in Port Elizabeth, still standing,
and was engaged in the mercantile and
lumber business extensively. He and his
partner, Joshua Brick (later his bitter po-
litical opponent), were government contrac-
tors during the War of 1812. Thomas Lee
was one of the incorporators of the Port
Elizabeth Manufacturing Company. He
was an anti-Federalist, and later a Jack-
sonian Democrat, and a record of his pub-
lic career is as follows : Judge and justice
of the Court of Common Pleas, Novem-
ber 3, 1813, to February 17, 1815; post-
master of Port Elizabeth, October 31, 1818,
to [anuary 2, 1833, when he was succeed-
ed by his son Francis ; again appointed post-
master, January 20, 1846. and served until
June 11, 1849: member of Congress, 1833-
1837, during a part of this time being chair-
man of the committee on accounts, and was
the personal representative of President
Jackson in the southern section of the
State. He was active in his support of

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public education and various philanthro-
pies, and was one of the founders of the
Port Elizabeth Library and the Port Eliz-
abeth Academy. His wife, who died April
6, 1858, was a descendant of John Mur-
phy, who died about 1777, leaving a large
plantation and a good library. They had
children : Francis ; Thomas ; Ellen Brick,
married Dr. Bowen ; Elizabeth Cloyd, mar-
ried - - Osterhout; Clement Jones; Lor-
enzo Fisler ; Benjamin Fisler.

Benjamin Fisler Lee, son of Thomas and
Rhoda (Murphy) Lee, was born in the Lee
Mansion, Port Elizabeth, June 30, 1828,
and died in Alantic City, in April, 1909.
He received an excellent education and up-
on its completion joined his father in bus-
iness as a partner, which connection was
kept up until the Civil War. Mr. Lee's po-
litical career commenced in 1850, when he
supported Nathan T. Stratton for Con-
gress. In 1856 he served as a Democratic
presidential elector, and as a member of
the Democratic State Committee. In 1859
and 1861 he was nominated for the New
Jersey House of Assembly, being defeated
both times by small Republican majorities.
In 1870, as congressional nominee, he
greatly reduced the Republican majority
of the old First Congressional District. In
1871, as nominee for the office of governor,
he retired in favor of the late Governor
Joel Parker. He entered upon the duties
of clerk of the New Jersey Supreme Court,
November 2, 1872, and retained the office
until November 2, 1897, when it passed in-
to Republican control. He was treasurer
of the Democratic State Committee from
1886 to 1895. From 1850 Mr. Lee was
identified with the development of railroad
interests in the southern part of the State.
In 1853 he was one of the incorporators
of the West Jersey Railroad Company, and
in 1859 one of the incorporators of the
West Jersey Central Railroad. By Act of
Legislature, March 9, 1863, he was named
as director of the Cape May & Millville
railroad, and being elected treasurer of the

company, held this office until 1872. He
was a leading spirit in the building of the
Stockton Hotel at Cape May. In 1866 was
an incorporator of the Bridgeton & Port
Norris railroad, and was actively connect-
ed with it until it became the Cumberland
& Maurice River railroad. He was a di-
rector of the West Jersey railroad and the
West Jersey & Sea Shore railroad, and was
instrumental in the construction of the
Maurice River and Newfield- Atlantic City
branches. He was founder and president
of the Trent Tile Company of Trenton, and
the Universal Paper Bag Company ; and
director of the Trenton Banking Company.
Standard Fire Insurance Company of
Trenton, and the Union Mills Paper Man-
ufacturing Company of New Hope, Penn-
sylvania. In 1888 he became manager of
the State Home for Feeble Minded Women
at Vineland, and later president of the
Board ; he was president of the New Jer-
sey State Conference of Charities and Cor-
rections ; vestryman for many years of
Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, of
Trenton ; and member of the New Jersey
State Historical Society, American Aca-
demy of Political and Social Science of
Philadelphia ; Mercantile Library of Phil-
adelphia ; Lotus Club and Country Club of
Trenton.

Mr. Lee married, July 16, 1862, Anna-
bella Willson Townsend, born September
21, 1835. She is a daughter of the late
William Smith Townsend, of Dennisville,
New Jersey ; is descended directly from
Richard Townsend, who first appeared at
Jamaica, Long Island, 1656, and died near
Oyster Bay, 1671, leaving among other
children, John, who married Phebe Wil-
liams, daughter of John Williams. John
Townsend was one of the earliest settlers
of Cape May county, gave his name to
Townsend's Inlet, and was a justice and
one of His Majesty's High Sheriffs. He
died in 1721, and among his children was
Richard, probably the first white child born
in Cape May county, born in 1681. died

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1737, married Millicent Somers, of Somer-
set Plantation, now Somer's Point. Her
father, John, was the ancestor of Commo-
dore Richard Somers. Isaac Townsend,
son of Richard and Millicent (Somers)
Townsend, married Sarah, daughter of
John Willetts. Isaac Townsend, son of
Isaac and Sarah (Willetts) Townsend, was
born in 1738, died in 1780; he married Ke-
turah, daughter of Josiah and Anne (Aus-
tin) Albertson, and granddaughter of
Francis Austin, of the Vale of Evesham,
Burlington county. Isaac Townsend, son
of Isaac and Keturah (Albertson) Town-
send, married Hannah Ogden, a lineal de-
scendant of David Ogden, who came to
Pennsylvania in 1682 with Wrilliam Penn
in the "Welcome." Wrilliam Smith Town-
send, son of Isaac and Hannah ( Ogden )
Townsend, a merchant, ship builder and
railroad constructor in Dennisville. Cape
May county, was born in 1811, died in
1881 ; married, in 1833, Hannah Smith
Ludlam, daughter of Henry and Mary
(Lawrence) Ludlam, and a descendant of
Anthony Ludlam, who settled in South-
ampton, Long Island, in 1640, and whose
son, Joseph Ludlam, was one of the first
settlers of Cape May county. Of the di-
rect line was Lieutenant Henry Ludlam, of
the Cape May militia in the Revolution,
with descent from John May, founder of
May's Landing, the county seat of Atlantic
county. Mr. and Mrs. Lee had children :
Francis Bazley, who is mentioned at the
head of this sketch ; Anna Townsend ; Mar-
guerite Alexander, who married Judge
Huston Dixon, Esq.. of Trenton.

Francis Bazley Lee, son of Benjamin
Fisler and Annabella Willson (Townsend)
Lee, was born in the Merchants' Hotel.
Philadelphia, January 3, 1869, and died at
the Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, May
2, 1914. He received his preparatory edu-
cation in the Trenton Seminary, Lawrence-
ville School, during the last year of Dr.
Samuel M. Hamill's principalship and the
first year of the John C. Green founda-

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tion, and was graduated from the State
Model School in 1888. While at the Model
School he founded in 1885 "The Signal,"
the school paper, and was secretary and
president of the Thencanic Literary Soci-
ety. Entering the junior class at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, Mr. Lee complet-
ed in 1890 a special course on American
history, political economy and constitution-
al law in the Wharton School. At college
he was active in the reorganization of Iota
Chapter, Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, subse-
quently becoming archon of the district ;
was an associate editor of "The Pennsyl-
vanian ;" and made special investigations
for the matriculate catalogue committee.
Upon graduation he was ivy orator. The
summer of 1890 Mr. Lee spent in Europe,
where he made the first translation from
French of the Belgian constitution, and es-
pecially studied the health problems of
municipalities. During the following au-
tumn and winter he took a special course
in English literature in the University of
Pennsylvania.

Having completed his legal studies in the
office of Hon. G. D. W. Vroom, of Tren-
ton, Mr. Lee was admitted to the bar of
New Jersey, in June, 1893. From July of
that year, until May, 1894, he assisted the
city solicitor of Trenton, Edwin Robert
Walker, in legal matters connected with the
establishment of the sewer system of that
city. In June, 1896. Mr. Lee was admitted
as a counselor-at-law. During this period,
with Nelson L. Petty, of Trenton, Mr. Lee
was secretary to the commission to compile
the general statutes of New Jersey issued
in 1896. In 1897 and 1898 Mr. Lee was
the receiver and managing editor of the
"Trenton Times," also, in 1905 becoming
acting editor of the Democratic "True
American," at the personal solicitation of
its editor, Joseph L. Naar, during his last
illness. He was a director in the Standard
Fire Insurance Company, the West Jersey
Railroad Company, the Mechanics' Nation-
al Bank, and succeeded his father as presi-

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dent of the Trent Tile Company, of which
office he was the incumbent at the time of
his death.

Mr. Lee contributed largely to current
historical and legal literature. He wrote
frequently for the daily newspaper press of
New Jersey, while among his more exten-
sive contributions are : "Memorial of
George White Worman," 1890; "Supreme
Court of New Jersey," Medico-Legal
Journal, March, 1892 ; data relating to New
Jersey men in the Matriculate Catalogue
of the University of Pennsylvania ; a ser-
ies of articles on Colonial laws, legislations
and customs, New Jersey Law Journal,
1891-1902; "Colonial Jersey Coinage,"
1893 ; "Agricultural Improvement in
Southern New Jersey," 1894; "Jersey-
isms," 1894; "History of Trenton," 1895;
"History of the Great Seal of New Jersey,"
in Zieber's "American Heraldry ;" and
"Outline History and Compilations and Re-
visions of the Colony and State of New
Jersey, 1717-1896," in the General Statutes
of New Jersey, 1896. He was for several
years a member of the publication commit-
tee of the New Jersey Archives, and edited
vol. ii of the 2nd series. He was also chair-
man of a committee of the University of
Pennsylvania, class of 1890, which in 1895
published the quinquennial record of the
class. He wrote the four-volume history,
"New Jersey as a Colony and as a State,"
and prepared the articles on "New Jersey,"
"Newark," and "Trenton," in the "Ency-
clopedia Americana." An article upon "Re-
ceivers of Insolvent Corporations" in the
American Corporation Legal Manual was
also from his facile pen.

In matters of public health and parks,
Mr. Lee took an active interest. He be-
came a member of the board of health in
1901 and led a campaign for mosquito ex-
termination. By reason of resultant agi-
tation in 1903 the common council of the
city of Trenton commenced the plan of the
purchase of the Delaware river front, Mr.
Lee being secretary of the special commit-

tee on the acquisition of park lands. So
active was he in the pursuit of plans for
beautifying that section of the city, that the
suggestion was made to name the park in
his honor. His mother has had plans
drawn for a shelter and playhouse for the
children of Trenton to be erected in the
park as a memorial to her husband and
her son, these plans calling for a beautiful
and artistic structure which will be an
adornment to the park.

Mr. Lee was a thirty-second degree Ma-
son ; a member of the New Jersey Histori-
cal Society ; recording secretary of the
Princeton Historical Society ; member of
the Burlington County, Monmouth County
and Salem County (New Jersey) Historical
societies, and of the Bucks County (Penn-
sylvania) Historical Society: correspond-
ing secretary of the New Jersey Sons of
the Revolution for ten years ; at one time a
member of the board of managers of the
Revolutionary Memorial Society, and active
in the attempts to preserve Washington's
headquarters in Rocky Hill and Somerville ;
for a time secretary and president of the
State Schools Alumni Association, of
which he was one of the organizers : mem-
ber of the American Dialect Society ; the
New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania and
of the State and Mercer County Bar asso-
ciations. From December, 1892. he was a
member of the Board of Managers of the
New Jersey State Charities Aid Society,
and a member of its law committee. In
April, 1895, Mr. Lee was appointed one of
a special committee to examine the penal
laws of New Jersey and other States, and
to report necessary and beneficial changes.
Much beneficial legislation resulted from
the reports of this body. He was secre-
tary to the commission to compile the pub-
lic statutes of New Jersey, and was in
charge of New Jersey's historical exhibit
at the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposi-
tion, and was also historian to the execu-
tive committee of the Washington's Cross-
ing committee. He was a member and ves-

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tryman for a number of years of Vincen-
town Trinity Episcopal Church.

Mr. Lee married, in Vincentown, New
Jersey, June 12, 1894, Sara Stretch Eayre,
born in Junction City, Kansas, only child
of Captain George Stretch and Marie Burr
(Bryan) Eayre, and a descendant in both
paternal and maternal lines from some of
the most prominent families in the country.
Child : Rhoda, born November 5, 1898.

Of Mr. Lee it may be said that he was a
man of large and symmetrical mentality,
an orator of great personal magnetism, and
invariably a power in his community. Log-
ic, clear and forcible, sarcasm, quiet but
scathing, and wit of rapierlike keenness
were wielded by him with a masterly skill.
His penetrating thought often added wis-
dom to public movements, and he ever took
an interest in those matters which tended to
improve the public welfare. Mr. Lee was a
man of serious aims, far-sighted in busi-
ness, broad in views, cherishing generous
ideals, entertaining in society, and finding
his friends among young and old, rich and
poor. These are the traits which shone in
his character and made him an object of
universal esteem and a representative of
those interests which have conserved the
progress of the State.

HOLLINSHEAD, Charles Sterling,

Leading Insurance Actuary.

New Jersey the State of his birth, life-
long residence, and death, it was as an of-
ficial of a great Pennsylvania corporation
that the active life of Charles Sterling Hol-
linshead was passed. His entrance into the
field of insurance was a natural event in
his life's course, his father having been for
more than a quarter of a century secretary
of the Insurance Company of the State of
Pennsylvania, and in that business he rose
rapidly to the high position for which his
capabilities and talents qualified him, re-
tiring from the presidency of the LTnion In-
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spent in its service. The following pages
speak of his busy and useful career, of the
love and esteem in which he was held by
his associates and friends, and of the ac-
complishments of his life. His memory is
preserved in the hearts of many, both in
Philadelphia, his place of business, and
Merchantville, New Jersey, his home for
nearly forty-five years. Known in the one
place as the forceful man of affairs, a lead-
er of men, he was as well loved and respect-
ed in the latter as the public spirited citi-
zen, interested and a participant in the ac-
tivities of his town.

Charles Sterling Hollinshead, son of
Joseph H. and Margaret W. Hollinshead,
was born in New Jersey, January 10, 1850,
and obtained his general education in the
schools of his native State and of Phila-
delphia, completing his studies in the insti-
tutions of the latter city. He was but a
youth when his early training began in the
business that became his life work, his first
position being in the offices of the Insur-
ance Company of the State of Pennsyl-
vania, a corporation his father long served
in the office of secretary. His training with
this concern was thorough and complete,
and he subsequently branched out into in-
dependent operations as an associate of the
general agency firm of Duy & Hollinshead,
his connection with the Union Insurance
Company beginning at the time he attained
his majority. Even at this early period of
his life he had attracted the favorable atten-
tion of those in positions of influence in the
world of insurance, and in the position of
fire manager of the Union Company he ful-
filled the high expectations of his superiors
in office. Although he had excellent oppor-
tunities for advancement in the agent's line,
subsequent events proved the wisdom of
his change.

As fire manager of the Union Insurance
Company, Mr. Hollinshead applied himself
with the vigor and enthusiasm of youth
to the improvement and upbuilding of that
branch of the company's interests, and

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spared himself not at all in his earnest ef-
forts. His first move was to acquaint him-
self with every part of his organization,
making personal friends of many of his
subordinates, and securing their loyal
friendship and the assurance of their aid
at every turn. Upon this secure founda-
tion of allegiance he developed his branch
of the company's business to an extent that
won him the grateful commendation of the
officers of the company and wide notice
among insurance men. His work was an
important factor in enabling the Union In-
surance Company to maintain a condition
of solvency and honorable position during
the years that marked the disastrous fail-
ure and compulsory retirement of many
companies.

The close of the year 1888 saw a well
planned movement for the reorganization
of the company, which provided for the
Union Insurance Company's retirement
from the marine branch of the business,
making fire insurance its sole activity. The
first meeting of the board of directors in
January, 1889, after the reorganization,
was for the election of officers, and Charles
Sterling Hollinshead was chosen to fill the
office of president, becoming the ninth pres-
ident of the Union Insurance Company
since its founding. Young in years and
experience, he was yet old in the lessons
that are learned through weighty respon-
sibility and the management of important
affairs, and none who had worked with
him or who had come into touch with his
department felt any fears for the Union
Company under his leadership. Amid the
maze of unusual conditions that existed af-
ter the reorganization he retained in ad-
mirable manner his clearness of judgment,
his calm mental balance, and at no time
was the credit or standing of the Company
in jeopardy. He had assumed vast obliga-
tions, and in their discharge he showed bus-
iness talent of exceptional order and exe-
cutive ability granted only to the few.

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Mr. Hollinshead remained in the office
of president of the Union Insurance Com-
pany until February, 1906, when he retir-
ed from his long connection with that cor-
poration. The years he spent in its ser-
vice, most successful from a business view-
point, were likewise most agreeable in the
pleasant associations and the lasting friend-
ships formed. The occasion of the twenty-
fifth anniversary of his service, October 14,
1897, was marked by a testimonial banquet
held in the Hotel Walton, Philadelphia,
when Mr. Hollinshead was the recipient of
a solid silver dinner service, the joint gift
of the board of directors, office staff, and
special agents of the Union Insurance Com-
pany. No less sincere and earnest was the
regret felt and expressed by all of his as-
sociates at the time of his resignation from
the presidency. The following report was
spread on the minutes of the Union Fire
Insurance Company, and a copy was tend-
ered Mr. Hollinshead :

Philadelphia, February 13. 1906.
Mr. Charles S. Hollinshead having resigned
as president and director of the Union Fire In-
surance Comapny of Philadelphia, thus severing
a connection of thirty-four years, eighteen of
which were passed as its executive head:

The members of the board of directors de-
sire to place on record an expression of their
h:gh appreciation of his integrity, ability, and
personal qualities which have so much attached
him to the members of the Board of the Union
Insurance Company through the many years of
his service ;

And to express our regret at the occasion of
his retirement.

Respectfully submitted,

CARROLL NEIDE, Chairman,
B. FRANK HART,
CHARLES TETE, JR.

Committee.

That his services were productive of ben-
efit to the entire business as well as to that
of the Union Company, is testified by a let-
ter addressed to him by the Corporate
Underwriters of Philadelphia, soon after
his retirement, a copy of which was prepar-
ed in beautiful form and presented to him:

CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW JERSEY

Philadelphia, February 26. 1906.
Charles S. Hollinshead, Esq.,

Philadelphia.
DEAR SIR:

At a meeting of the Corporate Underwriters
of Philadelphia called to take suitable action up-
on your retirement from the presidency of the
Union Fire Insurance Company, the undersign-
ed were appointed a committee to give voice to
the sentiments of respect and esteem in which
you are held by your associates.

This pleasing duty is only made difficult by
the very many things which could be said in
expression of appreciation of the high position
which you have maintained during the years
you have been at the head of the Company.

The difficulties which you have been forced
to meet are such as have been rarely success-
fully overcome by any underwriter in the his-
tory of the business, and your intelligent and
manful struggle with the conditions which have
confronted you has had the sympathy and chal-
lenged the admiration not only of your asso-
ciates in Philadelphia but of underwriters
throughout the entire country.

Throughout all these difficulties you have
maintained for yourself and the Company the
highest standard of good faith and good under-
writing practice and notwithstanding the absorb-
ing difficulties of your corporate position, you
have freely given your time in the interest of
the business at large.

All these things are fully appreciated by your
associates, who feel that the honor and credit
of Philadelphia Fire Insurance Companies have
been promoted by the excellent work which you
have accomplished.

Trusting that your connection with the busi-
ness may not be entirely severed by the recent
change which has come about, and assuring you
of the confidence and good will of all your as-
sociates,

We Remain,

Very Truly Yours,

TATNALL PAULDING,
R. DALE BENSON,
CHARLES R. PECK.

The withdrawal of Mr. Hollinshead
from the presidency of the Union Fire In-
surance Company did not mark his abso-
lute retirement from business, although
this came in 1908, the two intervening
years passed as manager of the fire under-
writing department of the Franklin Fire

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Insurance Company. From 1908 until his
death, December 5, 1912, he was free from
official business connection, enjoying well
earned leisure in his long time home, Mer-
chantville, New Jersey. The period of his
life prior to his acceptance of the presi-
dency of the Union Fire Insurance Com-
pany was but one of preparation ; the two
\i-ars of his active life after his retirement
from that office were but filled with duties
that made the laying aside of his official
burdens more easy; the work that stands
as his life attainment is that which he ac-
complished in the capacity of chief execu-
tive of the Union Company. Just how
worthy that was may be known in full de-
gree only to those who stood shoulder to
-!;i>u!der with him in times of adversity
pud financial danger, but the above quoted
words convey some idea of its importance
to the unexperienced in such affairs.

In the life of the Merchantville com-
munity he ever took a prominent part, ex-
tending his interest and activity to the po-
litical situation in county and State, always
as a supporter of the Republican party. For
several years he was a member of the Mer-
chantville Borough Council, as a member
of this body aiding in the enactment of or-
dinances safe-guarding the natural beauties
and advantages of the town and protecting
its interests and citizenship. He was appre-
ciated by his neighbors and fellow citizens
as he was by those who knew him only as
the business man, and in the associations
of his home and town was the source of
the strength and courage that made him a
power in the insurance world.

Charles Sterling Hollinshead married
Margaret S. Errickson. and was the father
of four children. Francis A., Marie L..
Sterling E.. and Emily J.

BENTLEY, Peter, Sr.,

The late Peter Bentley Sr., during an un-
usually long and active career, was held in

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high honor for his legal abilities, his mark-
ed usefulness in community affairs, and his
sterling nobility of personal character.

He was born in the village of Half
Moon, Saratoga county, New York, in
1805. His parents were Christopher and
Eleanor (Althouse) Bentley ; the father was
of English descent, and his mother came
from an early Dutch family of New York
City. He was reared on a farm, and his
school advantages were meagre, but his
ambition led him to a self-education which
proved an excellent equipment. At the age
of twenty years he took employment in the
printing house of Yates & Mclntyre, in
New York City. He was even then predis-
posed to the law, and during his five years'
continuance with the firm ardently exerted
himself to preparation for his chosen call-
ing. In 1830 he entered the office of Sam-
uel Cassidy, then one of the foremost law-
yers in New Jersey, and made such pro-
gress in his studies and developed such a
genuine talent for the profession that he
soon came to be entrusted with the greater
part of his tutor's business in the justices'
courts. He was admitted to the bar as an
attorney at the May term, 1834, and as a
counsellor in September, 1839. By this
time he was finally established in his pro-
fession, and he erected a building for of-
fice purposes. During his professional ca-
reer he was connected with some of the
most notable litigation of the day, and of
far-reaching importance. In 1842, as attor-
ney for the selectmen of Jersey City, he
was engaged in the celebrated Dummer
case, in which was decided the doctrine of
dedication by maps. Another case of vast
importance was the Bell case, in which
Mrs. Bell laid claim to the tract of land
under water under title of descent, and re-
affirmed by special grant of the New Jer-
sey Legislature. These titles were contest-
ed by another on the ground that, as he
held uncontested title to the bordering
shore property, the submerged extension
of the same was of right his own, and he

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constructed a pier. This cause cclcbre, be-
gun in 1843, was not finally adjudicat-
ed until nearly a quarter of a century later,
when Mr. Bentley achieved an entire victory
in securing for his client, Mrs. Bell, the
maintenance of the claim. He subsequently
administered upon Mrs. Bell's riparian
lands, which he disposed of to her great ad-
vantage. These lands are now a portion of
the valuable Jersey City railway terminal.
Many very important trusts were confided
to Mr. Bentley, and his judgment was great-
ly relied upon. From the first he held to
the conviction that real estate investments
were safer and more profitable than any
other. He enjoyed in highest degree the
confidence of people of Holland descent,
and he was the agent for a great number of
the best families in the investment of
money upon real estate, and he settled
many large estates, all to the great advan-
tage of the parties in interest.

Throughout his life, Mr. Bentley took
an active part in community affairs, and
he exerted a marked influence in the devel-
opment of both his city and county. He
took a leading part in formulating the char-
ters and other legal instruments upon
which were based the county of Hudson
and its principal municipalities. He made
large investments in real estate, and was a
pioneer in local improvements, especially in
the Bergen Hill section, which he opened
up and beautified, and where he erected an
almost palatial residence. He guarded with
jealous care the interests of the taxpaying
public, to protect them against unnecessary
taxation and municipal advantages. At one
time many years' accumulations of unpaid
taxes had imposed unjust burdens upon
paying property owners, and he conceived
the idea of a commission of leading citi-
zens who should make an equitable re-ad-
justment. In 1873 he procured the enact-
ment of a law to that end; a commission
was appointed, with former Supreme
Court Justice Haines as chairman, and
which gave a satisfactory solution to the

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most formidable problem which had con-
fronted the community.

In 1833, while yet a law student, Mr.
Bentley was elected clerk of the board of
selectmen of Jersey City, and he was elect-
ed to the mayoralty in 1843, acquitting him-
self with characteristic ability and fidelity
in both these places. He was repeatedly
solicited to accept higher political honors,
but he was wedded to his profession and
the interests of his city. He was one of
the organizers of the Mechanics' & Trad-
ers' Bank in 1853, and was its president
for several years. For some years prior
to and at the time of his death, he was a
trustee and counsel of the Provident In-
stitution for Savings of Jersey City, vice-
president of the Jersey City Savings Bank,
director and treasurer of the Jersey City
Gas Company, and treasurer of the Jersey
City and Bergen Plank Road Company.

A Democrat in early life, he left the
party in 1848 upon the issue of slavery,
and was one of the leaders in forming the
Free Soil party in New Jersey. He allied
himself with the Republican party at its or-
ganization in 1856, and was thereafter one
<if its most steadfast adherents, and, dur-
ing the Civil War, a most determined sup-
porter of the Union cause. He had a charm-
ing personality. As a biographer spoke of
him, "he was a rare gentleman, peculiarly
attached to his wife and children, gracious
and hospitable in his home, sincere and
earnest in his religious faith, and so honest
and honorable in all the affairs of his life
that the faintest breath was never raised
to question his integrity."

He died at his home in Jersey City, Sep-
tember 26, 1875, being at the time the old-
est practitioner of the bar of that city, with
a record of some forty-two years of pro-
fessional service. The courts of Hudson
took an adjournment in honor of his mem-
ory, and a committee reported appropriate
resolutions, in his recognition "as one who
stood eminent in his professional life and
character, always devoted to the interests

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of his clients ; having a clear perception of
the right, and a happy faculty of adjusting
disputes and effecting settlements among
men, and, in the long course of his profes-
sional life, leaving a spotless record."

Mr. Bentley married, October 13, 1842,
Margaret E. Holmes, of Jersey City, and
they had two children — Peter Bentley (2d)
and Rosaline Bentley.

PARSONS, Ellwood,

Staunch and Trusted Citizen.

The Parsons family, for seven genera-
tions associated with the affairs of Bucks
and Philadelphia counties, Pennsylvania, is
of ancient English residence and is prob-
ably of Norman origin, tracing to the time
of the Crusaders, the early form of the
name being Pierreson, son of Pierre. The
earliest record of the name in English her-
aldry is in the "Visitation to Hereford in
1286," when Sir John Parsons, of Cud-
dingham, is awarded armorial bearings
comprising a leopard's head between three
crosses, indicating that the original grantee
was a Crusader.

Authentic records name George Parsons,
of Middlezoy, Somersetshire, England,
born about 1540, as ancestor of Ellwood
Parsons, of this chronicle. George Par-
sons was the father of a son John, and
four daughters. Toward the close of the
seventeenth century several representatives
of the Somersetshire family of Parsons,
who had become converts to the faith of
George Fox, found their way to Pennsyl-
vania, among them a John Parsons, great-
grandson of George Parsons, previously
mentioned, grandson of John, and son of
John Parsons, and with him the American
record of this line begins.

John Parsons, the American ancestor of
the branch of the Parsons family claiming
Ellwood Parsons as member, was born at
Middlezoy, Somersetshire, England, about
1630, and in early manhood allied himself
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Fox, suffering persecution for this allegi-
ance. In 1670 he was fined, with other
members of Middlezoy Meeting, for refus-
ing to pay tithes, and five years afterward
was placed in prison for the same offence.
He was one of seven Quakers impris-
oned for holding religious meetings after
the manner of their faith, who in 1684 ad-
dressed an eloquent petition to the judges
of the assizes, complaining against the in-
justice of their detention. He and his wife
Florence signed a certificate for their son
John, from the Meeting at Middlezoy to
Friends in Philadelphia, dated 7 mo. (Sep-
tember) 4, 1681. This son John returned
to Middlezoy in 1685, married Ann Powell,
and with her, his brother Thomas and his
sister Jane Tyler and her family returned
to Pennsylvania in the same year. This
party was accompanied by the parents of
John and Thomas Parsons, John and Flor-
ence Parsons.

Thomas, son of John and Florence Par-
sons, of Middlezoy, Somersetshire, and
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born about
1663. Like his father he was a member
of the Society of Friends, and in 1683 was
imprisoned, with others, at Ilchester, Coun-
ty Somerset, for attending a conventicle
held at Gregory-Stoke, where the Quarter-
ly Meeting of Friends was usually held.
He married, in 1685, Jeane or Jane Cull-
ing, daughter of John Culling, of Babcary
Parish, Somersetshire. Ilchester Meeting
of Friends consenting to their marriage
July 29, 1685. Thomas Parsons must have
made immediate preparations to accompany
other members of his family to Philadel-
phia, and there, with his wife, witnessed a
marriage at the Friends Meeting House on
April 8, 1686. Many of the early settlers
of Philadelphia found it impossible to se-
cure house accommodations for their famil-
ies, and Thomas Parsons was one of those
who for a time dwelt in a cave on the bank
of the Delaware, near the foot of Arch
street. Thomas Parsons and his brother
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owned one of the first wind mills "upon
the Bank before the front Lott of Joseph
Growden," which they sold to Richard
Townsend, who on February 22, 1689-90,
obtained a grant of "one hundred foot of
bank before the Proprietor's son's Lott
that lies on the south side of said Grow-
den's Lott to sett the Mill upon." Thomas
Parsons resided for a time on land he own-
ed at Third and Walnut streets, Philadel-
phia, afterward moving to Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, where both he and his broth-
er John had land grants, with allottments
of Liberty lots in Philadelphia. His wife,
Jane Culling, died in Bucks county, and he
again married in June, 1704, at Falls
Monthly Meeting, his second wife being
Mary Hinds. Soon afterward he settled in
Oxford township, near Frankford, Phila-
delphia, where he owned and operated a
mill for a number of years, in January,
1720, selling it to Jacob and Isaac Leech.
Thomas Parsons was also the owner of five
hundred acres of land in Salem county,
New Jersey, and eight hundred acres on
Duck creek, Kent county, Delaware. He
died at his home in Oxford township in
June, 1721.

Thomas (2), son of Thomas and Jane
(Culling) Parsons, was born in Philadel-
phia, about 1688, resided in the vicinity of
his birthplace until after the death of his
father, then moved to Virginia. He was
named executor of his father's will, but
was "absent" at the time of its proof, June
17, 1721. By the terms of the will he was
devised the mill property in Oxford town-
ship, but his father conveyed the estate af-
ter drawing up his testament. The three
children of Thomas (2) were baptized at
Abington Presbyterian Church, the last one
on September 8, 1722.

Abraham, son of Thomas (2) Parsons,
was baptized at Abington Presbyterian
Church, March 5, 1720-1, the date on
which his elder brother, Isaac, was baptiz-
ed. He married Joanna, daughter of
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lin township, Philadelphia county, and be-
came the owner of a farm in that township,
part of the estate of his father-in-law,
James Ayres. Abraham Parsons died in
December, 1768, his widow surviving him
to February, 1779.

Isaac, son of Abraham and Joanna
(Ayres) Parsons, was born in Lower Dub-
lin township, Philadelphia county, Novem-
ber 12, 1748, died September 26, 1818.
Soon after arriving at man's estate he lo-
cated in Bristol township, Rucks county,
in 1781 moving to Falls township, in the
same county, and in tlie latter place passing
the remaining years of his life. He was a
member of St. James Protestant Episco-
pal Church, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, and
he and his second wife are buried under
the present church edifice. Isaac Parsons
married (first) in 1777, Anstrus Shadow-
ell, who bore him five children ; (second)
about 1791, Elizabeth Brodnax, born May
20, 1755, died June 15, 1827. who bore him
two children. Elizabeth was a daughter of
Robert Brodnax, born about 1700, a scriv-
ener who did considerable public work in
Lower Bucks county, writing many wills
and deeds and other documents. Robert
Brodnax is said to have come to Bucks
county from Henrico county, Virginia,
where John Brodnax had settled in 1686
and where he died in 1719, leaving a will
of which his son Robert, a minor slightly
under legal age, was named executor. From
this John Brodnax, of Virginia, the family
line is traced nine generations in an unbrok-
en line to Robert Brodnax and his wife,
Alicia Scappe, of Burmarsh and Godmer-
sheim. County Kent, England, in the first
quarter of the fifteenth century. Robert
Brodnax married, October 9, 1734, Christ-
iana Keen, daughter of Jonas and Frances
(Walker) Keen, and resided in Bensalem
township, Bucks county, where he died
about 1784. Christiana Keen was a lineal
descendant of Joran Kyn. who came to
Pennsylvania with Governor John Printz

in the ship "Fama," which sailed from
Stockholm, Sweden, August 16, 1642.

Isaac (2), son of Isaac and Elizabeth
(Brodnax) Parsons, was born in Falls
township, Bucks county. Pennsylvania,
July 3, 1794, and died there August 21,
1851. He inherited the old homestead and
lived thereon during the greater part of his
life, engaging for a brief period in mercan-
tile trade. He married, April 5, 1821,
Lydia Ann Anderson, who was born near
Trenton, New Jersey, July 18, 1801, died
July 19, 1901, having attained the great age
of one hunderd years and one day, daugh-
ter of Joseph Anderson and Sarah (Nor-
ton) Anderson, and a descendant of Joch-
em Andriessen, who was a son of Andries
Jochemsen Van Albade, one of the earliest
settlers of New Amsterdam (New York).
Enoch Anderson, son of Jochem and great-
great-grandfather of Lydia Ann (Ander-
son) Parsons, was born in New York in
1676 and was one of the chief founders of
Trenton, New Jersey. He was a justice of
the peace and of the courts of Burlington
county as early as 1709, was named in 1698
as trustee for the church and school
grounds at Maidenhead, and was later
trustee of both the Lawrenceville and
Ewing Presbyterian churches, and was ac-
tive in the founding of these two places of
worship. He lived on the Assaupuk creek,
within the present limits of the city of
Trenton, and on April 20, 1827, gave a
portion of his land, one hundred and fifty
feet square, in "Trent-town." to the trus-
tees of the Presbyterian congregation, oth-
ers contributing logs, mortar, and labor
toward the church building, which was
long known as "The Anderson Meeting
House," now the First Presbyterian Church
of Trenton. New Jersey. His wife was
Trintje Op Dyke, of Newtown. Long Is-
land, a granddaughter of Jansen Op Dyke,
who came from Holland to the New Neth-
erlands prior to 1653. The Norton family,
to which belonged the wife of Joseph An-

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derson, had members among the earliest
English settlers in New Jersey.

Ellwood Parsons, son of Isaac and Lydia
Ann (Anderson) Parsons, and member of
the seventh American generation of his
family, was born in Falls township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, April 5, 1822. He
obtained his education in the Friends
School at Fallsington and in a boarding
school at Poughkeepsie, New York, and
from the time he left school until his mar-
riage made agriculture his occupation. Be-
fore his marriage, which occurred when he
was a young man of twenty-nine years, he
purchased a farm in Falls township, and he
afterward bought another of two hundred
and seventeen acres on the New Jersey
side of the Delaware, two miles below Bor-
dentown, where he resided for nine years.
Then returning to Bucks county, he was
for three years engaged in the lumber bus-
iness at Morrisville, in partnership with
his brothers-in-law. Joseph C. and David
Taylor. After retiring from his lumber
operations Mr. Parsons purchased a coun-
try seat near Morrisville, which he made
his home until his death.

He held several important positions in
connection with financial and industrial in-
stitutions, and from 1876 until his death
was a member of the board of directors of
the Bucks County Contributionship for In-
suring Homes and Other Buildings from
Loss by Fire, the oldest fire insurance com-
pany in the county. Elected a director of
the First N~ational Bank of Trenton, New
Jersey, in January, 1868, he "rendered a
most faithful and untiring service there
until his death," a period of nearly a quar-
ter of a century, being elected to the pres-
idency of the institution June 3, 1891. He
was for many years a director of the Tren-
ton City Bridge Company, and in addition
to his official duties discharged the obliga-
tions of numerous private positions of
tnist.

Ellwood Parsons died October 13, 1891,
and is buried beside his wife, in the family
plot in the Morrisville Cemetery.

He married, March 26, 1851, Mercy Ann
Taylor, born July 14, 1824, died October
ii, 1890. daughter of William and Mary
(Crozer) Taylor, the former a descendant
of Robert Taylor, mariner, a native of
County Wicklow. who retired from the
pursuit of the sea, settled in Philadelphia,
and there died in 1798. Mary Crozer was
a descendant of the Crozer family, who
occupied for several generations the old
Pennsbury Manor house and plantation
which had been the home of William Penn.
Through the Crozer line, Mercy Ann (Tay-
lor) Parsons was descended from Duncan
Williamson, one of the earliest settlers on
the Delaware at Dunk's Ferry, which took
its name from him, and also was descended
from George Brown, who was commission-
ed a justice at the Falls by Governor An-
dres in 1680, as well as from John Sotcher
and his wife, Mary Lofty, who came from
England with William Penn in 1699 and
were long his stewards at Pennsbury Man-
or. Children of Ellwood and Mercy Ann
(Taylor) Parsons: William Taylor, born
April i, 1852. died June 24, 1875; Annie
Crozt-r. born September 18, 1853, died Feb-
ruary 9, 1895. married, September 3, 1891,
Edward C. Williamson, of Falls township,
Bucks county : Mary Taylor, born June 2,
1856, died April 25, 1909; Lydia Ander-
son, born April 14, 1858, died August 16,
1014. married. February 17, 1869, Henry
W. Comfort; George Taylor, bom May 14,
i8Cii, met his death by drowning, Decem-
ber 13, 1869: Rose, born June 13, 1864,
died September 20, 1864 ; Ella, born No-
vember 8, 1866, a resident of Philadelphia
and a member of the Pennsylvania Socie-
ty. Colonial Dames of America, the Gene-
alogical Society of Pennsylvania, and the
Swedish Colonial Society.

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GRAHAM, James A.,

Enterprising; Man of Affairs.

The death of James A. Graham, which
occurred at his home in Pompton Plains,
New Jersey, March 25, 1909, after an illness
of several weeks, removed from that neigh-
borhood one of its most highly esteemed
and public-spirited citizens, and from the
city of Paterson one of its well-known and
successful business men. He was a man
of wide acquaintanceship and many
friends, his rugged character, quiet and un-
assuming manner, and his high sense of
personal integrity in all dealings with his
fellow-men, winning for him a place in the
hearts of those with whom he was brought
in contact in the commercial and country
life in which he played so prominent a part.

Archibald Graham, grandfather of
James A. Graham, was a resident of Pat-
erson, New Jersey, where he was held in
high regard by a wide circle of friends. He
was the father of two sons and a daughter,
the names of his sons James and Archibald,
the latter named having passed his entire
life in Paterson, following there the occu-
pation of brewer, in which he was highly
successful.

James Graham, father of James A. Gra-
ham, was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in
1828, died on his farm at Pompton Plains,
New Jersey, in 1902. He was reared, edu-
cated and married in the city of Paterson,
removing from there to Pompton Plains,
in 1862, there purchasing a large farm west
of the Pequanac river, which was known
as the old Squire Berry farm, upon which
he resided for about five years, then sold
the same and purchased the Schuyler farm,
located on the east side of the river, where
he erected a commodious and comfortable
house, in which his widow and daughters
are residing at the present time (1915).
He was a progressive and prosperous farm-
er, realizing a goodly income from his well
directed efforts. He was quiet and unas
suming. particularly devoted to his home

and family, and his demise was sincerely
mourned by all who had the honor of his
acquaintance. His wife, Eliza (Kidd) Gra-
ham, is a native of Ireland, from which
country she emigrated to the United States
at the age of fourteen years, and sixty
years later, when seventy-four years of
age, she returned to her native land, accom-
panied by her daughter Sarah, and visited
the scene of her birth, from which she de-
rived considerable pleasure. Mr. and Mrs.
Graham were the parents of eight children :
Annie, resides with her mother ; James A.,
of whom further ; Hannah, died at the age
of twenty-six years ; Maggie, died at the
age of twenty-four years ; Isabelle, resides
with her mother ; Sarah L., resides with
her mother ; Mattie, died at the age of thir-
teen years ; Andrew, resides on a farm in
the vicinity of the homestead, married
Louise Muller, now deceased, who bore
him one child, James R.. born in June,
1903. now residing with his grandmother,
Mrs. Graham.

James A. Graham was born on Broad-
way, near Summer street, Paterson, New
Jersey, September 3, 1856. He attended
the local public school, and the New Jersey
Business College in Newark, graduating
from the latter in the year 1874. His first
employment was with his uncle, Archibald
Graham, who conducted a brewery, and up-
on the death of the uncle, James A. was
placed in charge of the Hamburg Avenue
Brewery, in Paterson, and he managed the
business so successfully that in a short time
it was a thriving enterprise and he received
a third interest in the concern. He later
disposed of it to the Consolidated Malting
and Brewing Company of Paterson, in
which company he had an interest at the
time of his death. Although circumstances
brought about his line of business, his
tastes were along entirely different lines of
activity, he being particularly fond of ag-
ricultural pursuits, devoting considerable
time to the cultivation and improvement of
the homestead farm, upon which he resid-

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ed with his mother and sisters. He pur-
chased two hundred acres adjoining his
father's property of one hundred and fifty
acres, and after the death of the elder Mr.
Graham he managed it all under one head,
erected an extensive barn and fine cream-
ery, purchased a herd of one hundred and
twenty-five Holstein cattle, which included
the old world champion "Pauline Paul,"
one-time champion butter maker of the
world. He was also a lover of horse flesh,
being at one time a breeder of fine horses,
a number of his horses having come from
Lexington, Kentucky, a section famous for
its thoroughbreds, several being now in the
possession of his sisters on the farm. He
attended the races at Lexington, which he
thoroughly enjoyed. The water on the
farm came from natural springs on the
ridge, Mr. Graham installing a model wa-
ter system. He displayed great ability in
the management of his varied business af-
fairs, accomplishing the ambition which he
had in view when he set out to make his
own way in the world. He was a Demo-
crat in politics, active in the councils of his
party, and was at one time a candidate for
the office of sheriff, but was defeated. He
held membership in the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, of Paterson.

He possessed many lovable traits of
character and disposition which won for
him comrades who enjoyed his society, and
being a man of rare good judgment, his aid
and counsel were widely sought, and he
never failed to meet any demand made up-
on his friendship or good will. He was
extremely charitable, never turning a deaf
ear to any worthy appeal for aid, always
considerate of old people, there being a
number whom he looked after, calling on
them frequently and administering in a
substantial manner to their comfort, and he
was extremely fond of children, lavishing
great affection on his nephew. His mother
and sisters, especially the former, always
received from him the greatest considera-

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tion, reverence and love, he always proving
himself an ideal son and brother.

The funeral services of Mr. Graham were
largely attended, people coming from far
and near to express their respects to his
memory. The services were conducted by
the Rev. Mr. Sigalfoss, of the Pompton Re-
formed Church, and the Rev. J. S. Hogan,
of the Reformed Church of Jersey City.
Both clergymen spoke from personal
knowledge of the kindly traits and upright
character of Mr. Graham. Interment was
in Cedar Lawn Cemetery. Prominent
among the more than one hundred floral
pieces, many of which were magnificent,
was one large vacant chair of flowers which
stood nine feet high ; the back and seat
were composed of lilies-of-the-valley, gar-
denias and Easter lilies, the arms and legs
of violets. This was the tribute from the
Paterson Brewing and Malting Company.
In his will he remembered his relatives, a
number of men who had been in his employ
for a number of years, and several hos-
pitals.

MANNERS, David Stout,

Financier. Public Official.

David Stout Manners, often chosen may-
or of Jersey City, must be prominently
named among those honored and revered
by the best citizens as champions of the in-
terests and rights of the community, those
with faith in their city's future, unwearied
in her service, vigilant, and dauntless in
her defense.

David Stout Manners was born at East
Am well, Hunterdon county, New Jersey,
January 12, 1808, son of Captain David
and Mary (Schenck) Manners, the former
by occupation both a farmer and surveyor,
who served with distinction in several im-
portant engagements of the War of 1812.
On the paternal side he is descended from
John Manners, the first known ancestor in
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land, about the year 1700. Soon after his
arrival he married Rebecca Stout, and set-
tled in Humerdon county, New Jersey.
Mary (Schenck) Manners was a daughter
of Captain John Schenck, a gallant officer
of the Revolution, who, having been con-
spicuous in previous struggles, especially
distinguished himself by his intrepidity and
important services in the battles of Mon-
mouth and Princeton.

The boyhood and youth of Mr. Manners
were spent on his father's farm, where his
educational advantages were mainly those
afforded by the short winter terms of the
village school. His parents were people of
intelligence and culture. His father died
in 1840. and after the sale of the home-
stead, David S. Manners came to New
York and there engaged in the wholesale
grocery business. In 1848 he removed to
Jersey City, New Jersey, and at once be-
came prominent in politics. In 1851 he was
elected alderman, and also became a mem-
ber of the board of water commissioners.
In 1852 he was elected mayor of Jersey
City by a handsome majority, and his ser-
vices gave widespread satisfaction, as he
had the confidence of all his constituents,
and was retained in office for five consec-
utive terms, declining further honors in
this capacity. Mayor Manners was far-see-
ing and enthusiastic; he proposed many
improvements in Jersey City and achieved
them, as far as the progress of the times
would permit. He was a stockholder in
various banking institutions. In 1856 he
became a member of the American Geo-
graphical and Statistical Society. His char-
ities were numerous and unostentatious

Mayor Manners married, in 1843, De-
borah Philips Johnes, a daughter of David
Johnes, granddaughter of Major David
Johnes, an able officer of the Army of the
Revolution, and a descendant of Edward
and Anne (Griggs) Johnes, natives of Din-
der, Somerset, England, who landed at Sa-
lem, but soon settled at Charlestown, Mas-
sachusetts in 1630. In the summer of 1884.

Mayor Manners was stricken with the
disease which proved fatal, and on August
19, 1884, he passed away, highly respected,
and a conspicuous figure in the community
and in Hudson county. New Jersey.

DE CAMP, John,

Distinguished Naval Officer.

Rear Admiral John De Camp, United
States Navy, late of Burlington, was born
at Morristown, New Jersey, in 1812. On
October i, 1827, he received the appoint-
ment of midshipman in the navy, from the
State of Florida, and was first put on ac-
tive service in the sloop "Vandalia," of the
Brazilian Squadron, in 1829-30. He was
promoted to passed midshipman on June
10, 1833. In 1837 he was on duty on the
frigate "Constellation," of the West India
Squadron, and on February 28, 1838, was
appointed lieutenant. He was again on the
Brazilian station in 1840, being attached to
the .•-loop "Peacock," and to the sloop
"Boston," of the same squadron, during
1845-46. In the war with Mexico in 1846-
47, he distinguished himself at the battle
of Vera Cruz. In 1850 he was ordered to
the Pacific Squadron on the sloop "Fal-
mouth," and in 1854 to the coast of Africa,
attached to the frigate "Constitution," re-
ceiving his commission as commander on
September 14, 1855. Subsequently he was
appointed lighthouse inspector, and was at-
tached to the Brooklyn navyyard in that
capacity and was next appointed to the
storeship "Relief."

In 1 86 1, on the outbreak of the Rebel-
lion, he was ordered to the command of the
steam-sloop "Iroquois," on the West Gulf
Blockading Squadron. The "Iroquois,"
which was one of the fleet of Flag-Officer
Farragut, which made the passage of Forts
Jackson and Philip on April 24, 1862, had
Km placed on picket duty about a mile in
advance of the main squadron on the night
of the 23rd. In the passage of the forts
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tain Bell. Early in the morning of April
24th the "Iroquois" hotly engaged the forts,
and shortly after four o'clock a rebel ram,
and a gunboat which had run astern of her,
poured into her a destructive fire of grape-
shot and langrage, the latter being compos-
ed mostly of copper slugs. Driving off the
gunboat with an eleven-inch shell and a
stand of canister, the "Iroquois" proceed-
ed, and in a little while, still under a terri-
bly severe fire from Fort St. Philip, as she
was passing that fort, she was attacked by
five or six rebel steamers, but giving each a
broadside of shell as she passed, succeeded
in completely destroying them. Four miles
farther down the river she captured forty
rebel soldiers and a well-equipped gunboat.
The "Iroquois" during the fight was badly
injured in her hull, besides having eight of
her men killed and twenty-four wounded.
From this time forward Commander De
Camp took active part in all the engage-
ments on the Mississippi up to and includ-
ing the capture of Vicksburg. He was
commissioned captain July 16, 1862, for
gallantry at New Orleans. In 1863-64 he
commanded the frigate "Wabash," of the
South Atlantic Squadron, and was commis-
sioned commodore September 28, 1866. He
was placed in charge of the "Potomac"
store-ship, during 1866-67 a* Pensacola,
and performed his last active duty as com-
mander of the same vessel while she was
stationed at Philadelphia as receiving ship
in 1868-69. He was made rear-admiral on
the retired list on July 13, 1870. Eighteen
of the forty-three years he was in the ser-
vice he passed in active duties at sea. being
known during that time as one of the brav-
est and ablest of the old school of naval
officers. An illustration of his bravery is
given in the fact that, on one occasion,
while ill. he caused himself to be fastened
in the chains of his vessel during an en-
gagement, and lost part of one of his ears
by a piece of shell from a rebel mortar.

In 1871 Admiral De Camp took up his
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as his impaired health would permit, attend-
ed the service there of St. Mary's Episco-
pal Church, having during the closing years
of his life given serious attention to relig-
ious matters. A day was fixed for his pub-
lic baptism in that church, but the event
had to be postponed by reason of an attack
of illness. He was. however, baptized by
the Rev. Dr. Hills, rector of St. Mary's,
while lying on his sick bed, on June 14,
1875. He died ten days after, aged sixty-
three years, and was buried at Morristown,
New Jersey.

RANSOM, Stephen Billings,

Prominent Lawyer.

Stephen Billings Ransom, one of the
most eminent and successful lawyers of
Jersey City, and a recognized factor in
political circles in the State of New Jersey,
was born at Salem, Connecticut, October
12, 1814, son of Amasa Ransom, a farmer,
long resident in that place.

Stephen B. Ransom was educated at Ba-
con Academy. Colchester, Connecticut, con-
tinuing his studies there until 1835, after
which he was engaged in teaching, which
vocation he followed for one year at Mend-
ham and in other towns, removing to the
State of New Jersey in 1836. In 1841 he
began the study of law, under the direction
of Phineas B. Kennedy, then county clerk
of Belvidere, and completed his course un-
der the supervision of William Thompson,
of Somerville. He was admitted to the bar
of New Jersey, September 5. 1844. F°r
three years he practiced his profession at
New Germantown, Hunterdon county, and
in April, 1848, he removed to Somerville,
where he resided and practiced law until
1856. Two years previously, in 1854, he
also opened an office in Jersey City, to
which city he subsequently removed his
residence, and was looked upon as a shrewd
practitioner, true to his convictions, yet
just to those who differed, positive, yet
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ocrat, and supported Van Buren for presi-
dent in 1848. Four years later, he became
a Republican and voted for Franklin
Pierce. He supported Horace Greeley for
the presidency against the re-election of
Ulysses S. Grant. In 1845 and 1846 he
commanded a company of militia at New
Germantown. Mr. Ransom was a man of
strong physique, was as careful of his
health as of his law cases, in their success-
ful results, and left a heritage in an honest
name, appreciated by his contemporaries,
a man of abundant labors, and truly Chris-
tian character, so that his appearance, as
well as his memory, will be cherished.

Mr. Ransom married (first) May 14,
1845, m Hunterdon county. New Jersey,
Maria C. Apgar, daughter of Jacob Apgar,
who went to California, on the discovery
of gold, and died there in 1849. The fol-
lowing year Mrs. Ransom died. Mr. Ran-
som married (second) in July, 1856, Eliza
W. Hunt, daughter of Stephen R. Hunt,
a lawyer of Somerville, New Jersey. Mr.
Ransom died December 3, 1893, leaving a
widow, five sons and two daughters.

BORCHERLING, Charles G. A.,

Oldest Member of Essex County Bar.

To live long is a distinction, to live long
and well is an honor. To walk the earth
for eighty-five years has been a distinction
borne by many, but to few has been the
signal honor given to carry that weight of
years so honorably as did the eminent law-
yer, Charles G. A. Borcherling, of New-
ark, New Jersey, who at his death was the
oldest member of the Essex county bar,
and was no whit less able, clearminded, and
effective as an advocate than his most em-
inent contemporaries, all of them many
years his juniors. For half a century he
was a commanding figure at the bar, passing
from youth to middle age to full maturity
and then to the rewards of respect and po-
sition due his attainments, his honorable
life, and his weight of years. With the

years he grew in knowledge, in legal acu-
men, and in power, in the love and respect
of his associates and in the confidence of
influential as well as humble clients. He
loved the law but he loved justice more,
and his greatest joy was not that he had
won a cause but that justice had been done.
Although deeply concerned in the civic and
temporal welfare of his city, he never
sought nor accepted public office. As he re-
tained true affection for the land of his
birth, so did he glory in the freedom, op-
portunity, and life of his adopted country,
and no truer citizen breathed the air of
freedom than Charles Gustav Adoph Bor-
cherling.

Charles G. A. Borcherling was born in
Berlin, Germany, January n, 1827, and
died of apoplexy in Newark, New Jersey,
February 21, 1912. He was a son of
Charles Frederick and Christina (Hell-
mund) Borcherling. His father was ex-
empted from military service in the Ger-
man army as a mark of favor, his brother
having fallen under Bliicher at the battle
of Waterloo. He came to the United
States when his son, Charles G. A. Borch-
erling, was young, but afterward sent the
latter back to Germany to complete his
classical education. After finishing his
studies in Germany, the then young man
began the study of law in Newark, New
Jersey, entering the office of the eminent
lawyer, Cortlandt Parker. He was admit-
ted to the New Jersey bar at the June term,
1860, as an attorney, and at the November
term, 1863, as a counsellor. In 1860 he be-
gan general practice in Newark, was in
turn admitted to all State and Federal
courts of the district, and for fifty years
was one of the most successful of lawyers,
conducting a very extensive, lucrative prac-
tice. His professional career was one of
honor and strict observance of legal ethics.
He was wise in counsel, untiring in the
preparation of his cases, and most force-
ful in their presentation to court or jury.
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strength and effective presentation of his
cause, never by chicanery or inferior prac-
tice seeking to befog the issue. He was
fair and most considerate of the rights of
opposing counsel, but dealt sledge hammer
blows in open legal argument. In his later
years he surrendered the heavier burdens
of practice, but was ever the sound legal
adviser of clients and a valuable consultant
of many lawyers, who drew largely upon
his learning, experience, and wisdom.

Mr. Borcherling was a Republican in
politics, and a longtime member of Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church. He was one
of the oldest members of St. John's Lodge,
No. i, Free and Accepted Masons, and of
the Essex Club. He was an old and valued
member of the various bar associations of
the city and district. He was vice-presi-
dent of the American Bar Association for
a number of years, and was interested in
many societies and organizations of New-
ark.

He married (first) August 12, 1869, in
Newark, Eliza S., daughter of James M.
and Phoebe Quinby, who died in 1875,
leaving a son, Frederick Adolph, born Oc-
tober 4, 1871, a member of the Essex coun-
ty bar and, until his father's death, his law
partner. Mr. Borcherling married (sec-
ond) July 23, 1885, in New York City,
Mary Latimer, daughter of William and
Caroline (Barton) Ruxton. The funeral
services of Mr. Borcherling were conduct-
ed by Right Reverend Edwin S. Lines,
Bishop of Newark, after which he was laid
at rest in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

GILCHRIST, Robert,

Lawyer, State Official.

The late Hon. Robert Gilchrist, a lawyer
of Jersey City, who attained notable success
in his profession, winning a high and hon-
orable place among his associates, was a
native of Jersey City, born August 12, 1825,
died in Jersey City, in July, 1888.

He read law with John Annin and Isaac

W. Scudder, was admitted to the New Jer-
sey bar as an attorney in 1847, later be-
came a counselor, and subsequently was a
partner of Mr. Scudder. Always taking an
interest in public affairs, he was called up-
on to discharge some high and responsible
trusts. Politically he was a member of the
Whig party until it was merged into the
Republican organization. In 1866 he be-
came the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress in the Fifth District. The Republi-
cans, however, were successful in electing
their nominee, George A. Halsey. In May,
1869, he was nominated by Governor Ran-
dolph as Attorney-General of the State, to
succeed George M. Robeson ; was appoint-
ed Secretary of the Navy. In April, 1873,
he was appointed by Governor Parker on a
special commission to revise the constitution
of the State. In January, 1875, he retired
from the Attorney-Generalship, and was
succeeded by ex-Governor Joel Parker.
During the same month his name was
brought before the Democratic caucus of
the Legislature for the nomination for
United States Senator, and he received
large support, but the Governor, Theodore
F. Randolph, eventually obtained the nom-
ination, and was elected.

Mr. Gilchrist was one of the most dra-
matic and effective pleaders at the bar; he
made an interesting and brilliant campaign,
whenever nominated, and the fight made
for Mr. Gilchrist was of such a character
as to convince the State House leaders that
they had no mean antagonist in the oppo-
site leaders who put Mr. Gilchrist in the
field. His contemporaries were Theodore
F. Randolph, who achieved the office of
United States Senator in 1875 ; Mr. Mc-
Pherson, and who also became ambitious
for the United States senatorship, desiring
to succeed Frederick T. Frelinghuysen.

Attorney-General Gilchrist was an im-
posing looking man, very striking in ap-
pearance, having the advantage in this re-
spect, and in his fine voice, as a speaker,
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office, and as aspirants for office. The
State of New Jersey was represented at
that time by General Sewell, Frederick A.
Putts, (larret A. Hobart, Jonathan Dixon,
of Jersey City, of the Republican party ;
Leon Abbett, of Jersey City, William Wal-
ter Phelps, of Bergen county, John W.
Taylor, of Essex county, John W. Griggs,
a lawyer, of Bergen county, and ex-Gover-
nor Bedle, all political comrades and op-
ponents, with others equally prominent, al-
ready mentioned.

Mr. Gilchrist married, late in life, while
prominent in office, Fredericka Beardsley.
They were the parents of two sons and two
daughters.

YOUNG, Edward F. C.,

Financier, Corporation Officer.

The late Edward F. C. Young, who was
a man of energy, enterprise, determination,
and the ability to recognize and improve
opportunities, characteristics which make
for success in every undertaking in which
they engage, traced his ancestry to the Rev.
John Young, a native of England, who left
that country for the New World, arriving
in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1638, and
two years later was one of the founders
of Southold, Long Island, and there spent
the remainder of his days, died and was
buried there, his grave being kept green by
each succeeding generation. Another pa-
ternal ancestor was Ephraim Young, chap-
lain of the State militia during the Revolu-
tionary War. On the maternal side he was
of Scotch descent.

New Jersey has been the home of the
Young family for many years past, the
grandfather and father of Edward F. C.
Young having been born in the same room,
in the old homestead, in Morris county, in
which he himself first saw the light of day.
At the age of nine years, two years after
the death of his father. Edward F. C.
Young removed to Jersey City, and was
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rural career was altogether too dull and
unattractive for a man of his active tem-
perament, and so it was that he moved city-
ward. He began his business career with
the Hudson County Bank, November i,
1852, where six months previously the late
Augustus A. Hardenburgh. who himself
acnieved distinction in public life, had tak-
en a desk. An offer of the tellership tempt-
ed him twelve years later to the First Na-
tional Bank, which was just then on the
eve of absorbing the old Mechanics and
Traders Bank. He became assistant cash-
ier in 1865, cashier in 1874, and on the
death of the late Alexander Hamilton Wal-
lis, in 1879, was made its president. Mr.
Young knew men at a glance, and by his
shrewd business management had, when he
was summoned to the front in the guberna-
torial campaign, built the bank into the most
important institution in the State. His co-
operation was sought by many large enter-
prises both in New Jersey and in New
York, and he was associated with J. P.
Morgan, Thomas F. Ryan and other finan-
cial leaders in many extensive transactions.
At his death he was an officer and director
in upwards of thirty institutions. With the
late Charles B. Thurston, Mr. Young form-
ed the Bergen & Jersey City Street Rail-
way Company, and in 1893, with the late
B. M. Shanley, organized the Consolidated
Traction Company, which acquired many
lines in Jersey City, Newark and Elizabeth,
and was the first president of the company.
In 1896 the traction company was absorbed
by the Public Service Corporation, and Mr.
Young retired. His connection with the
Dixon Company extended over a period of
nearly thirty years. He 'was an officer in
the following companies : Acker Process
Company, of which he was vice-president
and director ; American Graphite Company,
president and director ; First National Bank
of Jersey City, president and director; Jo-
seph Dixon Crucible Company, president
and director ; Pavonia Trust Company of
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Jersey Land Company, president and
director, and in addition to this was a di-
rector in the following : Bankers Trust
Company of New York, Bayonne Trust
Company, Bergen & Lafayette Trust Com-
pany, Jersey City ; Bowling Green Trust
Company, New York ; Brooklyn Annex, Co-
lonial Life Insurance Company, Hoboken
and Manhattan Railroad Company. Hudson
County Gas Company, Liberty National
Bank, New York ; New Jersey Title Guar-
antee & Trust Company, Jersey City ; New
York and New Jersey Railroad Company,
North Jersey Street Railway Company,
Public Service Corporation of New Jersey,
People's Safe Deposit and Trust Company
and the West Hudson Trust Company,
Harrison.

His business lines reached out in every
direction, and through them, he had gradu-
ally grown, almost without observing it
himself, to be an influential political factor.
The lines of politics in Hudson county led
as unfailingly, as the lines of business, to
his ornate little office in the First National
Bank building. While attending to his bank
duties, he managed to serve as city treasur-
er from 1865 to 1870. He was compli-
mented by being elected first to the city
council, then to the board of freeholders,
and was the first director-at-large in the
history of Hudson county affairs. In 1880
he was one of the electors who cast the
vote of New Jersey for Winfield S. Han-
cock for President of the Linked States,
and in 1888 represented New Jersey in the
National convention that gave Grover
Cleveland his second nomination for the
presidency. Mr. Young loomed up for the
governorship, but was defeated in the con-
vention at Trenton by Senator Werts. He
was the New Jersey director of railroads
for five years. He was identified with many
charitable organizations, and was one of
the founders of the Children's Home. His
contributions to St. John's Episcopal
Church were large, and he also contributed
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a bell for the new All Saints Church, in La-
fayette. He was a member of the New Jersey
Historical Society, the New Jersey Society
of the Order of Founders and Patriots of
America, and was entitled to membership
in the Sons of the Revolution.

Mr. Young married, July 26, 1854, Har-
riet M. Strober, who survives him, as does
also a son, Edward L. Young, and a daugh-
ter, Hattie Louise, wife of George W.
Smith, president of the First National
Bank, Jersey City, and they reside on the
Heights, Jersey City. Mr. Young passed
away at his home. Boulevard and Glen-
wood avenue, Jersey City, December 6,
1908.

KUNSMAN, Amos,

Prominent Business Man, Church Worker.

A man of action rather than of words,
of business talents and untiring energy, of
actual achievements that advanced the
wealth and prosperity of the community, is
a very fair description of the late Amos
Kunsman, of Trenton, New Jersey. He
was a man who was always intensely in
earnest, and this power of concentration
enabled him to accomplish a mass of work
which would have swamped one less adapt-
ed to a strenuous life.

Amos Kunsman was born in Bucks coun-
ty. Pennsylvania, November 9, 1840, and
died at his home in Trenton, New Jersey,
March 15, 1914. His education, an elemen-
tary one acquired in the district schools
near his birth-place, was supplemented by
home study in his leisure hours, and his
keen observation of men and manners
throughout his life. He was sixteen years
of age when he began his first appearance
in business life in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Later he was in New Brunswick, and then
came to Trenton, New Jersey which was
from that time forth to be the field of his
mature activities. He made his entrance
into the business life of the city as an em-
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proprietors of a dry goods store on East
State street. Twenty years were spent with
this company, during which time his faith-
ful discharge of the duties which fell to
his share met with appreciation of a sat-
isfactory nature. At the end of this period
Mr. Kunsman had amassed a considerable
capital, and he decided to engage in busi-
ness for himself. He accordingly associ-
ated himself in a business partnership with
Isaac Cole, the firm name being Cole &
Kunsman, and a store was opened on North
Broad street which was conducted success-
fully for a term of five years, when the
partnership was dissolved. Mr. Kunsman
continued in the dry goods business for
himself, and later took as a partner John
Taylor Leigh, the business being conducted
under the style of Kunsman & Leigh, in
a store located on South Broad street, al-
most opposite Factory street. Subsequently
this partnership was dissolved and the busi-
ness sold to Messrs. Melrose & Lee and Mr.
Kunsman retired from active business life,
a few years prior to his death. In all, Mr.
Kunsman had been identified with the dry
goods business more than half a century.
Outside of his business interests, Mr.
Kunsman took no part in the public affairs
of the city, having no desire for pub-
lic office, and deeming that he was best
serving the community by furthering its
business progress. Much of his time, how-
ever, was given to religious work. For a
long time he was an active member of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, later
joining St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal
Church, his activities being of great benefit
to this institution. Patriotism was a strong
factor in his character, and this prompted
him to offer his services to his country. As
a member of a Pennsylvania volunteer reg-
iment, at the time of the threatened inva-
sion of Pennsylvania by the Confederate
troops, he participated in many of the most
important battles of the period. Mr. Kuns-
man married Adeline Bellerjean, and they
had one daughter Leola.

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For a long time Mr. Kunsman had been
a member of the Official Board of St. Paul's
Methodist Episcopal Church, and at the
time of his death the following resolutions
were drawn up by this body to testify to
the esteem and love in which he was held :

Whereas, God in His inscrutable wisdom having
called our beloved brother and co-worker in
Christ to his glorious inheritance, and

Whereas, Realizing that in the transition of
Brother Kunsman St. Paul's M. E. Church loses
a kind and loving friend, one whose Christian in-
tegrity and gentleness endeared him to all, whose
counsel and judgment were of incalculable value,
and whose munificence in all branches of church
work was of a quality which could emanate only
from a heart imbued with a desire for the ad-
vancement of God's kingdom on earth, there-
fore be it

Resolved, That the Official Board, representing
the constituency of St. Paul's M. E. Church, do
hereby extend to the family of Brother Amos
Kunsman, in this their great affliction, their most
sincere and heartfelt condolence.

"The Lord has given and the Lord has taken
away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."
LEVI H. MORRIS,
ELIJAH COLES,
ELMA E. SUTPHIN.

HASBROUCK, Dr. Washington,

Leader in Educational Affaire.

Dr. Washington Hasbrouck, who died in
1895, nas inseparably linked his name with
the Hasbrouck Institute of Jersey City.
This school was founded in 1856. For ten
years it occupied a small building at Nos.
53-55 Mercer street, was conducted as a
private school, and patronized by the lead-
ing families of the city. Then the school
removed to the Lyceum Building, No. 109
Grand street, and ten years later, in 1876,
Dr. Hasbrouck severed his connection with
it, the management passing into the hands
of Charles C. Stimets, A.M. and Horace A.
Wait, A. B., the principals, who built up
a large and flourishing school. A fine build-
ing was erected on the Heights, named The
Hasbrouck Institute in honor of Dr. Has-
brouck.

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Dr. Hasbrouck was from Poughkeepsie,
New York, originally, belonging to an old
aristocratic family. As a promoter of the
highest standards of civic achievements and
educational developments. Dr. Hasbrouck
could not be surpassed. He was a man of
rare culture and ability, a leader in col-
legiate affairs, and an inspiration to Hud-
son county in scientific and cultured lines.

HARDENBERGH, Augustus A.,

Financier, Member of Congress.

The death of Hon. Augustus A. Harden-
bergh, which occurred October 5, 1889, at
his late home in Jersey City, removed from
that section of New Jersey one of its most
widely known men, his activities in Hud-
son county, in public and private ways,
making his name a household word from
Bull's Ferry to Bergen Point. His record
in Congress brought him into close and in-
timate relations with the chief men of New
York and Pennsylvania, who held him in
as high esteem as did his fellow citizens.

Augustus A. Hardenbergh was born in
New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 18.
1830, son of the late Cornelius L. Harden-
bergh, LL.D., of New Brunswick, who was
during his life time a leading member of
the New Jersey bar, and for many years
prominently connected with Rutgers Col-
lege, of which institution Rev. Jacob R.
Hardenbergh, D.D., his grandfather, was
the first president, also the founder.

Augustus A. Hardenbergh entered Rut-
gers College in 1844, but continued in col-
lege only one year, the failing health and
eyesight of his father rendering necessary
the son's assistance as amanuensis. Two
years later he entered a counting house in
New York City, and took up his residence
in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 1852 he
became connected with the Hudson County
Bank, and in 1858 was appointed its cash-
ier, and in 1878 was elected its president,
a position he held up to the time of his
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appointment as cashier he had manifested
an interest in politics, and in 1853 was elect-
ed by the Democrats to the New Jersey
Legislature from Jersey City, and although
quite a young man, took an active part in
legislative affairs. During the session of
1854 he acquired a favorable State reputa-
tion by securing the passage of the general
banking act and by opposing the Camden
& Amboy railroad monopoly. He was five
times elected alderman of Jersey City, in
1857-1862, inclusive, and during the
last year he was chosen president of the
common council, and also served as chair-
man of the war committee. In 1868 he
removed to Bergen, and during the first
year's residence there was almost unani-
mously elected to the town council. Dur-
ing the same year he was elected State Di-
rector of Railroads by the New Jersey Leg-
islature, and in 1872 represented the Fourth
Congressional District as their delegate to
the Baltimore National Convention, which
nominated Horace Greeley for president,
and in the same year was chosen president
of the Northern Railroad Company of New
Jersey. He again removed to Hudson
county in 1873, ar>d ever afterward resided
there. His residence in Jersey City was at
the corner of Barrow and Montgomery
streets, a very beautiful section of Jersey
City at that time, near Van Vorst Park. In
1874, at the solicitation of his friends, he
became the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress, and although the district had gone
Republican two years previously by over
one thousand majority, he was elected by
nearly five thousand majority. He was
again elected in 1876, 1878 and 1880, and
during this period he succeeded in making
Jersey City a port of entry. In 1883 he
was appointed a member of the Board of
Finance and Taxation, and in the follow-
ing year he was appointed by Governor Ab-
bett as a trustee of the State Reform
School.

Mr. Hardenbergh was a cultivated gen-
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honor on himself and his State of New
Jersey. He was a ready and graceful
speaker, possessed a large amount of mag-
netism, was courteous and courtly, of gen-
ial manner, and therefore was very popu-
lar, said to be one of the most popular men
that Hudson county ever knew. Among
his associates were Justice Jonathan Dix-
on. William Muirheid, Judge Bedle and
Flavel McGee. Mr. Hardenbergh's widow
survives him, also his son. John R. Harden-
bergh, who is president of the Commer-
cial Trust Company, also president of the
Hudson County Bank, formerly his fath-
er's bank.

LEBKUECHER, Julius A.,

Manufacturer, Financier, Public Official.

Julius A. Lebkuecher was born in the
Province of Baden, Germany, February 9,
1844, and died at his home in Newark, Xew
Jersey, May 13, 1913. He was a son of
Francis and Louise (Kurz) Lebkuecher,
who emigrated to the United States in the
year 1848, taking up their residence in Jer-
sey City, New Jersey, from whence they
removed to Newark, in the same State, in
1852.

Julius A. Lebkuecher attended the public
schools, completing his studies in the high
school of Newark, from which he was
graduated in the class of 1860. He at
once turned his attention to the mastery
of the jewelry trade, and by strict applica-
tion and perseverance became thoroughly
familiar with the various branches of the
trade, and in 1869 was competent to embark-
in business on his own account, joining
George Krementz in the organization of
the firm of Krementz & Company, whose
business constantly increased in volume
and importance year by year, and is now
one of the most extensive and most suc-
cessful business enterprises of its kind in
the City of Newark. In connection with
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vice-president and a director of the Union
National Bank, the Franklin Savings In-
--titution, and was president of the Four-
teenth Ward Building & Loan Association.

In public affairs Mr. Lebkuecher was
quite prominent, having been called upon
to fill a number of positions of trust and
responsibility, but he never consented to
accept public office until the spring of 18' 14,
when his name was placed on the Republi-
can ticket as a mayoralty candidate in New-
ark. He was elected by a majority of al-
most five thousand votes, this being an un-
mistakable evidence of the trust and con-
fidence reposed in him as a man of splen-
did business qualifications and unquestion-
ed integrity. He entered upon the duties
of his office, May ", 1894, and in the begin-
ning of his administration placed the gen-
eral business of the city upon a business
footing. Extravagances in the purchase of
supplies were cut off ; the cost of sewers,
paving and other improvements was lessen-
ed ; the business methods of the department
were put on a more practical and therefore
economical basis ; the long outstanding
claims due the city from various corpora-
tions were collected, including one of
$89,000 against two railroad corporations,
which money was devoted to the increase
of public school accommodations in the
city ; and he secured the passage of a State
law encouraging street paving. Consider-
ing the fact that great improvements were
made during his term and that there had
been but a slight increase in taxable valua-
tions, owing to the depressed conditions of
the times, the tax rate of the city was re-
duced, rather than increased. Mr. Leb-
kuecher. however, was not successful in
his candidacy for re-election, although sup-
ported by the most substantial and progres-
sive citizens, those who had the future wel-
fare of the city at heart, as had Mr. Leb-
kuecher.

Mr. Lebkuecher married (first) July
20, 1870, Mary Hayden, who died in 1893,

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leaving children, Frank A and Carl Head-
ley Lebkuecher. He married (second)
Mrs. Louise Buerger.

This brief resume of Mr. Lebkuecher's
many spheres of activity proves the broad-
ness of his mental vision and, whether con-
sidered as employe, employer, business man
or executive head of a large and thriving
city, he was ever found true to himself and
true to his fellows. Through a long period
of time he was accounted among those
whose enterprise and splendid judgment
contributed to the general prosperity and
he bore the honorable record of a conscien-
tious man who, by his upright life won the
confidence of all with whom he had come
in contact. His devotion to the public good
was unquestioned, and arose from a sin-
cere interest in the welfare of his fellow
men.

FLEMMING, James, Jr.,

Lawyer, lecturer. Litterateur.

James Flemming Jr., eldest son of James
Flemming Sr., and grandson of Isaac Edge,
was born in Jersey City, January 24, 1834.
He came from an English family, his fath-
er having emigrated from Lamworth, Eng-
land, and settled in Jersey City, about the
year 1830. His grandfather sailed in the
British navy under the great commander
Nelson and was wounded in the battle of
Copenhagen. His grandmother was a West,
related to the Earl of Delaware. His moth-
er, Alice Amy Edge, was a daughter of
Isaac Edge, who fled from England on ac-
count of Republican principles ; came to
America and settled in Jersey City : he
served in the War of 1812.

James Flemming Jr. received an academ-
ic education, attending first the old school
in Sussex street ; afterwards graduated at
the high school in the city of New York
and prepared to enter the University, but
instead took up the study of medicine. This
he pursued for a short time, and then en-
tered the law office of Edgar B. Wake-

man, Esq., and was admitted to the bar as
an attorney at the February term, 1855,
and as a counsellor at the June term, 1858.
He entered upon practice in partnership
with his former preceptor, Edgar B. Wake-
man, Esq., which continued for some years.
He then formed a partnership with Wash-
ington B. Williams, Esq., and upon the
termination of the same he opened an office
by himself, from that time on practiced in-
dependently.

The first distinction which Mr. Flem-
ming won after he came to the bar was the
defense of Margaret Hogan, who was in-
dicted for the murder of her infant child.
John P. Vroom, Esq., was associated with
him, they having been assigned by the court
to defend the woman. Mr. Flemming
brought into this cause all of his youthful
ardor and zeal. He was untiring in research
for every scrap of evidence which would
tend to throw light on the woman's inno-
cence, and so able and thorough was the de-
fense that the woman was acquitted, and
her counsel highly commended by the pub-
lic press of that day. Among the other fa-
mous cases in which he was engaged was
the defense of Jennie E. Smith and Covert
D. Bennett, indicted for the murder of Mrs.
Smith's husband. Before the coroner's
jury Mr. Flemming and Mr. Edgar B.
Wakeman appeared for the prisoners, and
at their trial Messrs. Charles H. Winfield,
William T. Hoffman, Gilbert Collins and
Mr. Flemming appeared for the defense.
This was one of the most celebrated mur-
der trials of modern times. The evidence
was entirely circumstantial, and the de-
fendants were convicted of murder in the
first degree. The case went to the Court
of Errors and Appeals, where the verdict
was set aside, and upon a second trial they
were acquitted. While all the counsel in
the cause bore their full share of responsi-
bility, none were more active and zealous
than Mr. Flemming, and it is understood
that the successful exceptions upon which
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him. It can be truly said of Mr. Flemming
that in the defense of a person on trial for
murder, no fee however large, could incite
him to greater zeal and energy in the de-
fence of the case than the life of the pris-
oner placed at the bar of the court, and he
was very successful in his cases. Mr. Flem-
ming conducted some very important civil
suits which had gone through all the courts
of the State, and in which he won much
distinction. He took a leading part in all
reform movements and was shrewd in de-
tecting fraud in cases involving revenue
matters. He was a man of literary tastes
and extensive reading, delivering lectures
occasionally, upon literary subjects and
travels, as he visited Europe three different
times and made the principal cities and ob-
jects of interest a study. Many of his ob-
servations were embodied in letters to the
press. These letters were instructive and
highly enjoyed by the citizens of Jersey
City, particularly those relating to the Pas-
sion Play which he witnessed at Oberam-
mergau.

Mr. Flemming married Miss Sarah La-
tou, daughter of Robert Latou, Esq., of
New York City. They had three children :
Robert, Alice and Sallie, all residents of
Jersey City. Mr. Flemming died very sud-
denly at Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, on
October i, 1894.

MANNERS, Edwin,

Lawyer, Leader in Community Affairs.

Foremost among the eminent, distin-
guished and successful lawyers of Jersey
City, must be mentioned the late Edwin
Manners, son of David Stout and Debor-
ah Philips (Johnes) Manners, grandson of
Captain David and Mary (Schenck) Man-
ners, and of David Johnes, and great-grand-
son of John Manners, and of Major David
Johnes.

Edwin Manners was born in Jersey City,
New Jersey, March 6, 1855. He was edu-

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cated in public school No. 3 ; Hasbrouck
Institute, Jersey City ; Mount Pleasant Mil-
itary Academy, Sing Sing, New York ; and
Princeton University, receiving the degree
of A.B. in 1877 and that of A.M. in 1880.
At these three institutions he was connect-
ed as editor with the "Quill," the "Mount
Pleasant Reveille," and the "Nassau Liter-
ary Magazine," and in them also won prizes
for composition and speaking. Afterwards
he became a writer of marked ability, con-
tributing articles of both prose and verse
to leading magazines and newspapers. He
read law with the firm of Collins & Corbin,
of Jersey City, received the degree of
LL.B. from Columbia Law School, and was
admitted to the bar of New Jersey at Tren-
ton as an attorney in November, 1880, and
as a counselor in November, 1883. He en-
gaged in active practice in Jersey City,
where he was prominent in securing an
adequate water supply for that place, and
in other civic improvements. He was also
distinguished in military service, and as a
surveyor of lands. He accumulated a val-
uable library, in addition to the rare books
belonging to his father and family. He
was a Democrat in politics, and a member
of the Jersey City Board of Trade, the Sons
of the American Revolution, and the Pal-
ma and Princeton clubs. He was also a
member and vestryman of St. Mark's Epis-
copal Church, Jersey City, to which he be-
queathed one thousand dollars, also gifts
to the University of New York and other
institutions.

Mr. Manners passed away in 1910, sur-
vived by his sisters, Marie, Helen and
Blanche Manners, to whom he was devot-
edly attached.

DUBAR, Charles Louis,

Dental Practitioner and Instructor.

Charles Louis Dubar, one of the most ac-
complished and successful surgeon dentists
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Orange, New Jersey, was a son of Matthi-
as and Stephanie Dubar, and was born in
Paris, France, February 24, 1852.

He was young when he came to this
country, and was graduated from St. Fran-
cis Xavier Academy, New York. In 1875
he was graduated from the Dental College
of New York, and had the honor of being
valedictorian of his class. On September
25, 1876, Dr. Dubar was appointed Mem-
bre Honoraire de 1'Institut du Progres. In
1881 the degree of Master of Dental Sur-
gery was conferred upon him by the New
York State Dental Society. He was one
of the most prominent dental surgeons in
the city of New York, and lectured on this
subject in the New York College of Den-
tistry and the French Hospital. His pre-
ceptor in his own studies was the late. Dr.
W. H. Dwindle. Dr. Dubar was a mem-
ber of the First District Dental Society of
New York, of the Royal Arcanum, and of
Court Bonny Brook, No. 284, Foresters of
America. His religious membership was
with the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, of
New York City.

Dr. Dubar married, November 23, 1877,
Miss Constance A. Lastayo, who died No-
vember 7, 1895, leaving three children:
Mrs. L. Mungar, born in September, 1878 ;
Mrs. E. Hare, born in December, 1885 :
and Constance Dubar. born in November,
1895.

On June 10, 1897, Dr. Dubar married
Miss Elvira Lastayo, a sister of his first
wife; she died December 19, 1907. On
September 22, 1909, at St. Francis Xavier's
Church, in New York City, he married
Marie A. M., a daughter of Charles J. and
Noemie P. Roussel. They had one child,
Noemie Roussel Dubar, born August u,
1910.

Dr. Dubar passed away in his fifty-ninth
year, while enjoying a well deserved popu-
larity. He was possessed of a rare store
of information on all subjects, was a de-
lightful conversationalist, a musician of no
little ability and his artistic sense was

shown in his work. Friends and business
acquaintances alike felt the charm of his
manner. A gentle humor bore testimony
to the kindliness of his disposition.

CRAWFORD, Thomas,

Prominent Business Man.

To Thomas Crawford, late of Trenton,
New Jersey, is due that tribute of respect
and admiration which is always given, and
justly so, to those men who, through their
own efforts, have worked their way upward
to positions of prominence ; who have
achieved a competence through their own
labors ; and who, by their honorable deal-
ing, command the esteem and confidence
of those with whom they have been thrown
in contact.

The Crawford family is an ancient one
and, while it was well established in Scot-
land prior to 1200, we are told that it is of
Anglo-Norman origin some two centuries
earlier, and the Crawfords of Scotland
trace their ancestry to a Norman noble of
the days of William the Conqueror. The
name is sometimes spelled Crawfutt in the
early Scotch records, while Crauford was
the ordinary spelling until later date. A
list of the heads of important Scotch famil-
ies in 1291 has been preserved, and is
known to historians as the Ragman's Roll.
On this list are five Crawfords. The titles
held in Scotland by this family were: The
Viscountcies of Mount Crawford and Gar-
nock ; the earldom of Crawford belonged to
the Lindsey family. A number of Crawfords
were among the Scotch who were given
grants of land in the Province of Ulster,
Ireland, in 1610, and later by King James
I. Some of the American families trace
their descent from the first settler in Ty-
rone, Ireland, George Crawford. Nicholas
Pynnar, who made a survey of the Scotch-
Irish settlements in 1619, reported that in
the Precinct of Mountjoy, County Tyrone,
George Crawford had transferred his
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son. Owing to the destruction of many
early records, it is not always possible to
trace the descent in an uninterrupted man-
ner.

Thomas Crawford was born in Dublin,
Ireland, in 1833, and died in Trenton,
New Jersey, December 15, 1911. His ed-
ucation was acquired in his native land, and
in the year 1847, when still a young lad, he
emigrated to America. For a time he made
his home in Brooklyn, New York, then re-
moved to Trenton, New Jersey, where the
remainder of his life was passed. He fol-
lowed the calling of a blacksmith for many
years, then established himself in the un-
dertaking business with which he was suc-
cessfully identified for many years. He
was the founder of the undertaking busi-
ness of Thomas Crawford's Sons, which
is now conducted by his grandson, D. I.
Crawford, a son of Thomas Crawford Jr.
The business was established in 1882, and
when Mr. Crawford retired to private life
some years ago, it was continued by his
sons, and upon their demise, by the present
owners. Thomas Crawford Sr. was one
of the oldest members of the Sacred Heart
Parish, and had been president of the St.
Vincent de Paul Society for almost half
a century. He was re-elected annually be-
cause of the excellent service he rendered
in behalf of the poor and distressed, and
his untiring activity in their behalf. A char-
acteristic story of Mr. Crawford is as fol-
lows : It was just about a week before his
death that Mr. Crawford was busied about
some small matters on the lawn in front
of his substantial little bungalow, when his
attention was attracted to a poor man who
was on his way from Trenton to Borden-
town. After a little conversation with the
man, Mr. Crawford deliberately removed
his overcoat and insisted upon its accept-
ance by the wayfarer, whose needs had im-
pressed him. This occurrence was witnessed
by one of the neighbors, but occasioned no
comment, as Mr. Crawford was noted for
his charity. He was an active member of

the Knights of Columbus, and was an earn-
est supporter of the Democratic party, al-
though he never desired to hold public of-
fice. While the early education of Mr.
Crawford was a limited one, he was a man
of keen observation and a deep thinker.
The questions of the day were followed
by him with the greatest interest, and he
was a gifted writer on current events.

Mr. Crawford married (first) Novem-
ber 13, 1853, Margaret O'Connor, who died
November i, 1893. He married (second),
January 2, 1896, Mary Phalen, widow of
Thomas Bryant, who survives him. Chil-
dren : Joseph, Frank, W. Henry and
Thomas Jr., all now deceased.

GROUSE, Otto,

Prominent Lawyer.

Hon. Otto Crouse was one of the most
brilliant men of Hudson county, who most
ably presided over the First District Court
of Hudson county, and one of the most
useful and admired members of the New
Jersey State Board of Education, and Pro-
fessor of Law in the New York Law
School, and it has been said of him, "his
legal mind and unyielding grasp of the
fundamental principles of honor and hones-
ty gave him at once standing at the bar
which mere brilliancy or genius would have
failed to win. Nature had with lavish hand
endowed him with splendid faculties and
talents of a high order and she had coupled
with these qualities a determination to bring
them to their fruition."

Judge Crouse was born at Sampsonville,
New York, April 24, 1861, son of Fred-
erick and Doretta Crouse. The family mov-
ed to Monmouth county, New Jersey, when
Otto Crouse was young. He was educa-
ted in Freehold. New Jersey, at the Insti-
tute, and in 1879 matriculated at Prince-
ton University, was at the head of his class,
Academic Department, graduated in 1883,
and spoke the valedictory. He entered the
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immediately after his graduation, and re-
mained with the firm (although not a mem-
ber) from 1900 to 1904, until appointed
judge of the First District Court of Hud-
son county. When his term expired he
formed a partnership with Judge Blair, af-
terward with Randolph 1'erkins (law part-
nership). He was president of the Hud-
son County Bar Association, and was a
member and vestryman of St. John's Epis-
copal Church, Jersey City. Just in the
height of apparent vigor, and certainly of
popularity in Hudson county, his health he-
gan to fail him, and he was obliged to go
to Colorado. At the time of his death,
February 22, 1911, at Long Beach, Cali-
fornia, he was in the front rank of his pro-
fession, well beloved, and the charm of a
large circle of friends. His wife, Chris-
tine (Bow en) Grouse, bore him four chil-
dren.

HAYES, William,

Leading Jewelry Manufacturer.

William Hayes, head of the jewelry
manufacturing firm of Hayes Brothers, at
42 Hill street, Newark, New Jersey, a vet-
eran of many sharply contested baseball
games of forty years ago, and known in the
rifle shooting circles, military and other-
wise, throughout this country and in Eng-
land and Germany for his expert marks-
manship, died suddenly on the Seventeenth
of June, 1911, at his home 739 High
s-tieet. In what seemed to be perfect health,
and giving active attention to the detai's
of his business up to that time, Mr. Hayes
became ill about two weeks before his
death. An operation was considered neces-
sary in order to save his life, but from
which he never recovered.

Mr. Hayes was born in 1848 in the home
of Jabez W. Hayes, his father, at 918
Broad street. He was the youngest of four
sons, and began his business life with his
father and his brothers, Henry W., Charles
and Frederick T. Hayes, as manufacturers

of jewelry in Broad street, where the city
hall now stands. The elder Hayes was an
expert steel engraver, connected with the
Union Banknote Company, and had the dis-
tinction of having engraved the plates for
an issue of paper money by the city of
Newark in the early '6o's. From the time
the jewelry business began, it was a suc-
cess. At the death of Jabez W. Hayes, it
was conducted by the sons. Henry W. was
the first of the quartet of brothers to die.
Later, Frederick T. went to Red Bank,
where he now lives, and the business was
continued by Charles and William until
the death of the former a few years ago.
After which Mr. William Hayes con-
ducted it alone, giving his personal atten-
tion until stricken with the fatal illness.

Mr. Hayes is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Adelaide Hayes, one of the daugh-
ters of the late David B. Hedden, whose
home was in Rankin Place, just back of
the old Essex court house at Springfield
avenue and Market street ; and by two
daughters, one of whom is the wife of
Colonel Henry H. Brinkerhofr, of Jersey
City, and one son.

Mr. Hayes was a man of quiet dignity
and great nerve, a genial traveling compan-
ion, and an interesting conversationalist in
English or German. He was widely known
through his baseball proclivities, and the
wonderful reputation which he made in that
field of sport in his early life: through his
wonderful ability as a rifle and shotgun de-
votee, and in his participation in match
shoots for many years at Sea Girt, and in
nearly every other State in this country,
and through his extensive connections in
the jewelry trade.

From about 1864 to 1867 Mr. Hayes
was one of the brightest stars in baseball
in this section of the country. He played
as a shortstop in the old Active Club, and
was an exceptionally clever fielder. From
the Actives he went to the Eurekas. an old-
er and equally famous organization in the
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brilliant success in the same position for
that team. He began his career as a marks-
man about 1870 in a gallery in the old Kay
gun store in Newark. He had been an adept
in everything he undertook from his child-
hood days, at St. Paul's Church school,
and when he began to shoot he was instant-
ly marked as a coming man at the targets.
He liked the new sport, and in a few years
he attained the highest place among Amer-
ican marksmen. He became closely allied
with the German-American Schuetzen-
bund, and for many years held the title of
"King of the Schuetzenfest," winning it
repeatedly at the big National gatherings
of marksmen at Union Hill. He was for
many years the champion rifle shot at short
and long ranges, excelling at anything from
200 to 600 yards and being without a peer
on the ring target.

Besides participating actively in shoot-
ing festivals and team matches all over the
country, he made a study of everything con-
nected with firearms and their use, and be-
came a recognized authority on everything
from the Scheutzenfest rifle to the latest
models in modern service arms, as well as
in pistol and shotguns and ammunition of
all kinds. He also did a great deal of ex-
perimental and practical work to improve
weapons and missiles and the manner of
using them. He was the winner of many
cups and badges and gained a world wide
reputation as a designer and maker of high
class badges for shooting clubs and for ath-
letic sports of all kinds, as well as of badges
for fraternal orders, in which his firm did
an immense business.

He was an expert in pistol practice at
the shorter ranges and with shotgun in
the field or at the traps, as he was with a
rifle. He was at one time a member of the
New Jersey National Guard rifle team of
sharpshooters as a volunteer in the Second
Regiment, and participated in some of the
matches as a representative of New Jer-
sey. His services were also much in de-
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ual shooters and for the rifle teams and of
late years he had spent such time as he
could spare from business on the State
ranges at the Sea Girt Camp in the summer
rifle shooting season, becoming acquainted
with these and making strong friends of
the leading marksmen of the whole country
and of some foreign countries.

RANDOLPH, Bennington F.,

Lawyer, Jurist, Enterprising Citizen.

When, at the ripe age of seventy-three
years, Judge Randolph went from earthly
scenes, there passed one of the strong men
of the New Jersey bar, one who had graced
the bench, and one who had taken more
than an ordinary part in the business life
of his day. When one gazes at the great
building of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society on Broadway, New York, the mind
unconsciously turns back to what must have
been the small beginning of the Society in
1859. When the formation of the Society
was first effected. Judge Randolph, one of
the organizers, was elected a trustee, during
the succeeding thirty years retaining that
position, and to his zeal, ability, and wisdom
the great building stands in part as a monu-
ment. So, too, the Central Railroad of New
Jersey owes to him, in part, its existence,
for as one of the organizers, its counsel,
and one time treasurer, he served that cor-
poration. The list of institutions and cor-
porations benefiting by his legal wisdom,
his zeal and his leadership could be ex-
tended indefinitely, including banks, trust
companies, schools, seminaries, colleges, and
churches. All this was in addition to an
extensive law practice and several terms of
service as judge of Hudson county courts.
Success, professional and material, came to
him abundantly but solely through merit,
was well earned and richly deserved. The
name Randolph, everywhere and in each
generation an honored one, gained new
lustre from his blameless, upright life, his
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tion, his devotion to his wife and his family,
his dignity and exquisite courtesy, gentle
manner, attractive personality, nobility of
character and exalted nature. Honored him-
self, he always preferred others in honor.

Judge Randolph sprang from English
ancestry and from a family rich in pro-
fessional reputation. The name, originally
Fitz Randolph, was so borne by the first
five American generations, but Francis, of
the sixth generation, retained only the
initial "F," and wrote his name Randolph,
as did his son, Judge Bennington F. Ran-
dolph. The original immigrants of this
branch, Edward and Elizabeth (Blossom)
Fitz Randolph, came to this country about
1680. The line of descent is through their
son, Joseph Fitz Randolph, born in 1656,
who married Hannah Conger ; their son,
Joseph (2) Fitz Randolph, born in 1690,
who married Rebecca Drake ; their son,
Joseph (3) Fitz Randolph, born May 24,
1722, who married Esther Broderick; their
son, Robert Fitz Randolph, born in Middle-
sex county, New Jersey, September 24.,
1762, died September 5, 1821. who married
Nancy Campton, of French Huguenot de-
scent; their son, Francis C. F. Randolph,
born in 1793. died in 1828, who married
Phoebe Halsey Crane ; their son, Benning-
ton F. Randolph, to whose memory this re-
view is dedicated.

Robert Fitz Randolph, head of the fifth
American generation and grandfather of
Judge Bennington F. Randolph, was pre-
pared for the practice of medicine and prac-
ticed his profession for many years. Late
in life he studied for the ministry and was
ordained a clergyman of the Baptist church
on August 27, 1812, at Samptown, his
brother, Rev. Jacob Randolph, then being
pastor of the church there. From August,
1817, until 1820, he was the regularly set-
tled pastor of the Staten Island Baptist
Church. He was universally known, how-
ever, as "Doctor" Randolph. He married,
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Campton, who survived him nearly thirty
years, dying February 22, 1851.

Francis C. F. Randolph, father of Judge
Bennington F. Randolph, was born January
14, 1793, in Piscataway, New Jersey, died
in Newark, New Jersey, in 1828, and was
buried in the churchyard of the First Pres-
byterian Church at Elizabeth, directly in
the rear of the church, near the northwest
corner. After his marriage, on March 6,
1816, he located in Belvidere, where he
practiced law, purchasing the law library
and later receiving a share of the law busi-
ness of Caleb O. Halsted. In 1825 he mov-
ed to Elizabeth, where he engaged in prac-
tice, his contemporaries being those great
New Jersey lawyers, Chetwood, Willianson,
Scudder, Frelinghuysen, Hornblower, and
other noted lawyers of the Union and Essex
county bars. Although a young man, he
won instant recognition, and was chosen to
represent Essex county in the lower house
of the New Jersey Legislature, this honor
being followed by his election as surrogate
of Essex county. LIpon his election to the
latter office he moved to Newark, where he
purchased the premises on the west side of
Broad street, south of and adjoining the
Third Presbyterian Church. There he lived
until he fell a victim to the dread disease
consumption, at the early age of thirty-six
years. He married, March 16, 1816, Phoebe
Halsey Crane, born September 23, 1793,
daughter of Benjamin Crane, of Elizabeth,
New Jersey, also of a distinguished New
Tersey family.

Bennington F. Randolph, only son of
Francis C. F. and Phoebe Halsey (Crane)
Randolph, was born in Belvidere, New Jer-
sey, December 13, 1817, died in Jersey City,
March 7, 1890. After completing his pre-
paratory years of study in various institu-
tions, public and private, he entered Lafay-
ette College, whence he was graduated with
honors. Many Randolphs had chosen the
law as their life work, that was his father's
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In 11 had little inclinatii n sue for the same
profession. He ^ttulied under the preceptor-
ship "f \\'illiain ( '. .Morris, of Belvidere,
ami J. !•'. Randolph, of Freehold, finishing
1 -tndie>. passing the re(|»ired examina-
tii ns, and gaining admission to the New Jer-
bar, tir-t as an attorney in February,
1839, and a- a counsellor in February, 1842.
I r twenty-one years he practiced his pro-
ff-^ion in .Monmonth and Ocean comities,
but in 1861 moved to Jersey City, .where he
died twenty-one years later. During his
professional career at the bar he was at
different times associated with others, in-
chiding his uncle, Judge Joseph F. Ran-
dolph, of Jersey City, and his cousin.
Joseph F., Jr. He was also a member of
tin Xew York bar, being a member of the
law firm of Alexander & Green. On April
r. 1868, he was commissioned by Governor
Marcrs L. Ward one of the judges of the
Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the
county of Hudson. He served until 1873,
and on June 30 that year was appointed a
M (rial Master in Chancery. In 1877 he
was appointed judge of the District Court
of Jersey City and on March 30, 1882, was
again appointed to that office by Governoi
George C. Ltidlow. As a lawyer and jurist
he stood very high, his learning, patience,
love cf justice, and fair-mindedness win-
ning him the unvarying respect of his pro-
fessional brethren.

I'.^lge Randolph was equally prominent
in the world of business, his trained mind,
coupled with wise judgment and sound busi-
ness ability, rendering him a most valuable
executive and wise in counsel. He was one
of the founders of the Equitable Life As-
surance Society of the United States, was
1 li ,-(< d to the first board of trustees in 18^9,
and until his death in 1890 served the So-
ciety with all his ability, zeal, and earnest-
iK ! le -irved as director of the Rank of
FiM'hold, the First National Rank of Jer-
ry City, the Mercantile Trust Company,
and the Mercantile Safe Deposit Company,
of New York. In 1861 he joined with

others in planning a route to California,
selecting under official authority the Nic-
aragua route. He was one of the strongest
friends of public and higher education, serv-
ing as a member of the New Jersey State
and the Jersey City Roards of Education,
was a director of Princeton Theological
Seminary, and a trustee of the State Normal
School. To all these boards he gave freely
of his time, his wisdom and his experience,
was devoted to their interests, and instru-
mental in increasing their usefulness. When
the project of a railroad to be known as tin-
Central Railroad of New Jersey was first
mooted, he earnestly advocated its construc-
tion, aided in organizing the company, serv-
ed as its legal counsel, and was one of the
real fathers of that now great corporation.
At one time he added to his heavy business
and professional burdens the office of treas-
urer of the company.

In religious faith Judge Randolph was a
Presbyterian, inheriting his faith from a
line of elders of that church and himself an
elder for many years. He was closely as-
sociated in religious work and social inter-
course with the pastors of the Presbyterian
Church of Freehold, Rev. Daniel McLean,
D. D., in 1842; later Rev. S. I. Alexander,
and in 1861 with Rev. Dr. Chandler. In
1861 he moved to Jersey City, where he
was elected an elder of the Presbyterian
church whose pastor was then Rev. C. K.
Mabie, D. D. When the congregation con-
solidated with the Rergen Presbyterian
Church it became known as the First Pres-
byterian Church of Jersey City, the first
pastor of the new church being Rev. Charles
Herr. D. D. As an elder he was a pillar
of strength to his pastors, and to devoutness
and loyalty added all the Christian graces.
He was widely known and highly esteemed
for his personal, professional, and business
qualities, and richly served the communities
in which he resided by generous, untiring
aid in all movements for the public benefit.
His life was an active, useful one, not sel-
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of the public. He was great in all things,
yet withal modest and unassuming, a de-
lightful companion, a faithful friend, true
to every trust reposed in him and constant
in his fidelity to his family, his daughters
treasuring above all the memory of his de-
votion to their mother and his loving care
of their every interest.

Judge Randolph married, in 1840, Eli.^a
Henderson, daughter of John Burrowes and
Hope Forman, of Freehold, New Jersey.
John Burrowes Forman was born in 1786,
died in 1853, son of Jonathan and Hope
(Burrowes) Forman. He married Hope
B. Henderson, born in 1787, died in 1823,
daughter of Hon. Thomas Henderson ; they
were the parents of four children: Eliza,
the youngest, was born in 1819. Jonathan
Forman, eldest son of Sheriff David For-
man, was born in 1758, died in 1803. He
married Hope Burrowes, a sister of Major
John Burrowes. She bore him four chil-
dren, John Burrowes Forman being the
youngest. Sheriff David Forman was a
son of Judge Jonathan and Margaret
(Wyckoff) Forman, the former a prosper-
ous farmer and judge of the Court of Com-
mon Fleas of Monmouth county in 1/45.
Judge Jonathan Forman was the second
son of Samuel Forman, high sheriff of
MonmoHth county in 1695. He was a son
of Aaron Forman, who came from Long
Island to Monmouth prior to 1693, son of
Robert Foreman* founder of the family
in America, an Englishman driven to Hol-
land by religious persecution, thence com-
ing to America, where he appears as one of
eighteen incorporators of the town of Flush-
ing, Long Island, in 1645. Four daughters
of Judge Randolph survive him : Frances
Forman Fitz Randolph ; Isabella H., mar-
ried Rev. Albert Dod Minor ; Julia, married
Flavel McGee, a prominent lawyer of Jer-
sey City; and Althea R., married Joseph D.
Bedle, Governor of New Jersey.

In a letter written to his daughter, Althea,

*See addenda for Foreman and Forman.

under date of January 2O, 1875, Judge Ran-
dolph spoke in the highest terms of the in-
augural addres-- of Governor I-'.edle, adding
the wish that "a copy could lie placed in the
hands of every thinking man," closing with
the sentence "I am grateful to God for Ilis
blessing and favor vouchsafed to your good
husband." As a fitting close to this review
of his life a copy of the splendid tribute
paid Judge Randolph by the Hudson Comi-
ty Bar Association is appended :

At a meeting of the bar of Hudson County,
New Jersey, held at the Chancery Chamlirrs,
Jersey City, March 10, 1890, it was resolved as
follows :

The members of the bar of Hudson County
learn with deep regret of the decease of Ben-
nington F. Randolph, their honored associate for
nearly thirty years, and for over half a century
an active and well known member of the legal
profession in this state. During this long period
his industry, his intelligence, his integrity, have
been unexcelled in the profession. Personal in-
tercourse with him only served to add the warmth
of affection to the respect with which he was
everywhere regarded. We do not believe any-
one can recall an unkind remark uttered by him,
and we are sure that many have felt, and will
always remember, the genial welcome, the kind
attention, the timely suggestion, the word of en-
couragement, which it was his habit to give. He
could hardly have known what it was to have an
enemy, but the narrow confines of his own state
are not nearly spacious enough to enclose his host
of friends. A member of an honored New Jer-
sey family which has rendered much and signal
service to the state, he was always looked to and
chosen for responsible public duties, and he dis-
charged them with constant fidelity and well-
directed skill. Fifteen years of judicial service,
twenty years on the riparian commission, and a
whole generation of both personal and official
labor in the improvement and government of the
public schools, testify to his place in the public
esteem and his devotion to the general good.
As a guardian of the State's most valuable prop-
erty, as a dispenser of her public justice, and as a
manager of her system of popular education —
the palladium of her liberties — our departed
friend filled up his measure of service to the
community, heaped and running over. But be-
sides this, he filled many posts of private duty.
His sound judgment and integrity were sought
by several leading financial institutions, in which
he served as director, and he aided in organizing
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lence, the Kqnitahle Life Assurance Society. He
was a consistent Christian and deeply interested
in i-hurch work and religious education, and his
influence was thus always on the side of enlight-
enment, good morals, and true progress. As
such men yield to the common destiny, lay down
their burdens and pass away, we may justly sor-
row at their loss; hut in their well rounded term
of years and honors and public services, we may
realize an example which will act long after they
are gone, and will perpetuate their memory in a
line of honorable and devoted lives, which is
a true immortality, though, as we humbly believe,
not the only immortality of well doing reserved
for them. We tender our respectful sympathy to
the family and relatives of our deceased friend,
and will attend the funeral ceremonies, and we
direct the secretary of the meeting to present this
resolution to the courts of this county, and to
request its entry on the minutes, and that a copy
be forwarded to the family of the deceased.

Lovely and lovable, a devoted wife and
faithful mother, Mrs. Randolph was the
pride of her husband and the joy of her
children. One of the three heirs of the late
John B. Forman estate, her executive abili-
tv in financial and executive affairs was giv-
en ample scope and was proven of high
quality. An immaculate house-keeper, al-
ways surrounded by a circle of friends, her
hospitality was unbounded. Her notable
charm of manner and gracious personality
blended with a sincerity of purpose, eman-
ating from a strong Christian character.
Her judgment was excellent, she was a lib-
eral provider, and known for her generosity
and philanthropy. In 1861 the family mov-
ed to Jersey City, Judge Randolph presid-
ing over the First District Court of Hud-
S-MI county, and there she was much sought
after by the representative people in the
church and in society, and was greatly be-
loved by all. Her charming personality
and lovable characteristics never forsook
her. but, witty, brilliant, and beautiful to
the last, she delighted those who knew her.
An accident terminated her life in her
eighty-ninth year, while living in Freehold
in the new residence built by her upon the
retirement of the family after Judge Ran-
dolph's death in 1890.

She was a daughter of John Burrowes
Forman and Hope Henderson, his wife, and
granddaughter of Hon. Thomas Henderson,
a graduate of Princeton, a distinguished
physician and patriot of the Revolutionary
period, a descendant of Michael Hender-
son, grandson of Sir Michael Balfour, of
Fngland. The Formans are descended
from Robert Forman, an Englishman, who
came to this country in 1645. The connec-
tion of the family with the Wyckoffs by
marriage, the Seymours, of New York, and
many promient lines and people is most in-
teresting.

A great shock to Mrs. Randolph and one
that came but a few years after the death
of her honored husband was the passing of
her son-in-law, Judge Bedle, who died Oc-
tober 21, 1894. Seven years later she was
again prostrated by the death of her son-
in-law. Honorable Flavel McGee, who died
August 12. 1901. In August, 1906, a fav-
orite and devoted daughter, Miss Frances
Forman Fitz Randolph, died, and two years
later, on August 21, Mrs. Randolph suc-
cumbed to accidental injuries, survived by
her daughters, Mrs. Althea F. Randolph,
widow of ex-Governor Bedle, and Mrs.
Julia F. Randolph, widow of Flavel McGee,
and Mrs. Isabella Minor. Mrs. Minor
died June 10, 1910, leaving a daughter, Sus-
an Brown Minor, a resident of New York
City. Mrs. McGee died November 30,
1912, leaving Mrs. Bedle the last survivor
of her family.

SPELLMEYER, Henry, D. D.. LL.D.,

Distinguished Methodist Divine.

"Nothing must ever interfere with my
duty," was ever Bishop Spellmeyer's motto,
and nothing ever did, his end coming while
he was presiding over a session of the New
Jersey Conference at Atlantic City, after
the conference had been in session three
days. The life of Henry Spellmeyer was re-
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youth to its close. A University graduate
at eighteen years, a member of the Newark
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at twenty-one, his thirty-five years
of unbroken pastoral work a succession of
honorable promotions to important charges
and church official position, the final honor
came at the age of fifty-seven years, when
the General Conference of his church be-
stowed its highest trust in electing him a
bishop by six hundred and twelve out of
six hundred and ninety-one votes, the larg-
est vote ever cast for that high office in the
history of the church.

Numerous were the important posts he
filled, yet no honor or promotion ever came
to him that he did not earn by persistent
toil and genuine merit. He never under-
took anything without special preparation.
For his public utterances he did not depend
upon the inspiration of the minute. This
habit of mind brought to him a furnishing
and equipment which served him to good
purpose in his later ministry and particu-
larly when he came to the episcopacy, for
he had a fund of well thought out material
with which to stimulate and inspire a seem-
ingly extemporaneous address. He was no
less careful in deeds than in speech. If he
had a problem in administration to meet he
gave it the most painstaking consideration,
viewing it from every possible angle. This
would sometimes lead him to hesitation, but
when he had fully examined the case and
had gathered all possible light from all
sources he was ready to act. and then he
was immovable. Hence he was strong in
the administration of the affairs of pastorate
and episcopacy.

His sense of justice was very keen and
was applied to all his affairs. Unwilling
to be imposed upon he was even stronger
in his purpose not to impose upon others ;
and while keenly feeling an injustice in-
flicted upon him he was ever ready to throw
the mantle of charity over those responsible
for the act. To say a kind word, to do a

kind deed, was his great pleasure. That
fine vein of sympathy and kiiidm-ss that
was so marked in his family relations as son,
as husband, as father, as brother, was felt
in all other associations in which he moved.
Its manifestation in his pastoral work gi > H
ly endeared him to all to whom he minis-
tered and was a decided factor in his marvel-
ous success as a shepherd of smiK.

Bishop Spellmeyer was a very popular
preacher, multitudes gathering to listen to
his exposition of the Word. He used no
sensational methods, but with refinement
and dignity conducted all of his services as
became the Gospel of Christ and one who
had a serious message to deliver to men.
He knew the needs of the human heart, and
his one purpose was to meet that necessity
in so far as he could as an ambassador of
the Master. His sermons were deeply spir-
itual, his expression very clear, his voice
superior and well trained, his appearance
attractive. He seemed to be able always to
say the right thing in the right way and to
make his meaning easily understood. Said
a contemporary : "He is a model of chaste-
ness, clearness, and expression, while the
matter is pure beaten oil. He is an elocu-
tionist of high cultured type and this he
brings into the pulpit with both grace and
unction. His sermons would do to go into
print without either erasure or addition or
change of a jot or tittle." Said another : "We
witnessed his goings forth among a people
who saw in his busy footsteps the tracery of
feet of mercy ; we were cognizant of the
steady grasp of his pulpit ministrations on
vast congregations of edified hearers ; we
saw him in the Conference as a steady force
interpenetrating all church interests. We
knew him when repeatedly smitten by grief,
in a short time resignedly bowing to the
will of God, nothing daunted ; we enjoyed
his personal friendship when among strange
brethren, and we are prepared to say that
we have never known a minister of Christ
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as a preacher, pastor, and all round pyra-
midal man 'who stood four square to every
\\ind that hlows.' "

While the pulpit was his throne, he met
all the exacting requirements of the loving,
faithful pastor, systematically, carefully,
and persistently. He made the rounds of
pa-toral calls, going from house to house in
search of his people, and when the round
was completed repeated his visits again and
again, giving the most pronounced sympathy
and brotherly help to those afflicted in body,
mind, or estate. He was a welcome visitor
in the homes of the sick and the poor and in
the homes of the rich and prosperous, for
he neglected none, the conviction of the su-
preme importance of his work being ever
v. ith him. He felt that men were lost with-
out the Gospel and that it was his particular
mission to lead them to Christ. His minis-
try was evangelistic : he had revivals in all
his charges ; his meetings were scenes of
great spiritual power and many hundreds
were converted and led into the church.
He was an indefatigable worker and noth-
ing social or secular was permitted to in-
terfere with the complete fulfillment of his
ministerial duty.

Into the episcopacy Bishop Spellmeyer
brought the full application of all the ener-
gy and industry which had characterized
him as a pastor. One sentence from an ad-
dress in response to a great welcome given
him on taking up his official residence in
Cincinnati truly reveals the man: "I give to
you my heart and hand in friendliest greet-
ing and my promise to you is to do all I
can for everybody I can in in any way 1
can." This promise he kept. When later
the General Conference fixed his official
residence at St. Louis, he became an unusual
influence among the religious forces of that
city and universally esteemed and loved by
?.\\ who met him. He was particularly strong
and happy in his administration of an annual
conference. As a presiding officer he com-
manded the highest respect, was proficient as
a parliamentarian and graceful in his deport-

ment in the chair. His brotherly spirit awak-
ened immediate confidence in the hearts of
his brethren ; they saw that he comprehend-
ed the delicacies of the situation and would
be absolutely fair in the exercise of his
power and responsibility. A Methodist ann-
ual conference is unlike any other body on
earth, either political or religious. It is
a very democratic body, and every man in
it is a potential district superintendent, or
even bishop. There is no law of caste or
of preference ; free speech exists to the full-
est degree ; the only inflexible law of the
conference is loyalty to the church and to
the bishop presiding. Hence the bishop
holds a peculiar position, and one that re-
quires the highest type of consecrated man-
hood. Bishop Spellmeyer, so refined, so
gentle, but so strong, met every requirement.
He studied each particular case with great
care, keeping in view the interests of the
church and of the pastor, both very dear
to him. He encouraged each one to come to
him with perfect frankness and to tell him
the needs and conditions of his case. He
did not ask for the maintenance of secrecy
in reference to appointments, preferring to
have the problem openly and clearly worked
out. But his open heartedness, gentleness,
and fairness were not signs of any lack of
firmness, and at the close of a Conference
session, when the appointments had been
read, he was perfectly willing to meet and
to talk with any disappointed man. Bishop
Berry characterized him as "manly, brother-
ly, level headed, discriminating, and sympa-
thetic ;" another contemporary as "humble,
sympathetic, approachable, graceful, and
tactful in administration, a fervent preach-
er of the Gospel, a man upon whom the
Church can look with justifiable pride at
any time and under any circumstance."

The pecuniary necessities and embarrass-
ments of men in the conferences where he
presided appealed to him strongly, and for
the relief of such cases he maintained a
fund. When he received compensation for
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occasions, deducting the mere amount of
personal expense he would place this re-
mainder with this fund and sacredly devote
it to the relief of his brethren who might
be in need.

Bishop Spellmeyer was of American
birth, his parents German and Scotch, ii:^
father, Matthias Henry Spellmeyer, was
born and spent his youth in Germany. His
mother, Mary Jamison, was born on one
of the Shetland Islands, off the coast of
Scotland. They met in the United States
and were married January 16, 1847. Henry,
the eldest of their three children, was born
in New York City, November 25, 1847, died
in Atlantic City, New Jersey, March 12.
1910. It was his mother's dearest wish that
he become a minister, and it was her daily
practice, after he came to an age of under-
standing, to retire with him to her room to
pray that he might grow up to be a good
minister of Jesus Christ. Whatever might
have been his own convictions, it required
persuasion from those interested in him to
convince him that he would be able to meet
such a responsibility. At the age of fifteen
years he entered the University of New
York, pursuing the regular classical course
and carrying off the honors at his gradua-
tion, three years later. He tutored for a
time in a private family, then decided upon
the ministry, completed a course at Union
Theological Seminary, and at the age of
twenty-one years was received on probation
by the Newark Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in March, 1869. His
first appointment was at Kingsley Church,
Staten Island, within two miles of his fath-
er's home. There he served three years,
building up the church in all departments
and endearing himself to the people of the
charge. He was next stationed at Bloom-
field, New Jersey, where a remarkable re-
vival attended his ministry. He remained
at Bloomfield for three years, although one
of the most prominent churches of the Con-
ference appealed for his services. When
his term expired, as fixed by church law.

three of the mosi important churche* of the
Conference insisted upon his being assigned
to them. The presiding bishop appoint I
him to the Central Church of Newark, an I
that church further .secured him as pa
until his combined service numbered eleven
years, two terms under the three year limit
and one term under the five year limit. The
other churches which he served during an
unbroken pastorate of thirty-five years in
the Xewark Conference were Saint James,
at Elizabeth, Trinity at Jersey City. ( 'a! vary
at East Orange and Roseville, and ( Vnten-
ary at Newark. While with the latter
church, he was a delegate to the Ecumeni-
cal Conference held in London. England.
In each case, while the time limit was in
force, he remained in pastoral charge as long
as church law allowed, and it is a remark-
able fact that his whole itinerant ministry
was spent in an area that could be covered
by the naked eye from an eminence in the
vicinity of any of his charges. There was
scarcely a year in all the thirty-five years
when urgent efforts were not made to se-
cure his transfer to large and responsible
fields of labor outside of the Newark Con-
ference, but he was in love with his work
where he best knew it and no tempting calls
could induce him to leave it. In each case
he was so absorbed with the pastorate he
was serving that men sometimes failed to
appreciate the breadth of his sympathy, but
his real vision did take in the broad area
of the Kingdom of Christ and he had the
greatest interest in other men's successes as
well as his own.

While yet a minister he bore various re-
sponsibilities bestowed by his brethren. He
was a trustee of the Centenary Collegiate
Institute. Syracuse University, and Drew
Theological Seminary. He was a delegate
from the Newark Conference to the Gener-
al Conferences of 1896, 1900, and 1904;
and in 1896 the General Conference, in
forming its committees, placed him on the
Book Concern, and also made him a mem-
ber of the book committee. When the lat-

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ter created a committee on the entertainment
of the General Conference of 1900, they
selected Dr. Spellmeyer as chairman. In
that capacity he quickly demonstrated his
ability in business matters and administra-
tion. His ready grasp of all details and his
superior ability, so manifest whenever he
appeared before the body to give notices or
to present plans commanded close attention
and admiration from all delegates. The
Kditor of the "Church Advocate," the of-
ficial organ, wrote that "successive Confer-
ences may try in vain to find a chairman of
the Entertainment Committee that will sur-
pass him." The General Conference of
1900 decided upon two new bishops. Dr.
Spellmeyer, although receiving considerable
more than a majority of all votes cast did
not reach the legal two thirds required to
elect. He was continued a member of the
book committee and was again chairman of
the entertainment committee of the General
Conference of 1904. At that conference lie
was elected bishop by a vote that was the
largest ever cast for a candidate for that of-
fice. The conference fixed his official resi-
dence at Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1906 as-
signed him to visit the Methodist confer-
ences and mission in the orient. He made this
journey accompanied by his wife, traveling
about sixteen thousand miles, being at times
in great peril. While on the Yangzte river
he wrote: "Twke or-- house-boat has been
wrecked, twice the bamboo rope has broken
and we were at the mercy of a fierce tide
and great rocks waiting for a chance to
strike. Once the rope slipped from the track-
er's hands with the same perils increased
somewhat by our nearness to most danger-
ous whirlpools and projecting sharp-edged
ledges of stone. But notwithstanding our
anxieties and record breaking trip for ad-
venture, the journey has been a great de-
light to me and I have had no sense of ser-
ious alarm, believing that somehow we
would get ashore before the boat could sink
and knowing that I was on the path of duty,
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that road God is his companion and pro-
tection." Of China he wrote: "China is
discontented with herself. At least she
wants better things, better implements for
her farmers, better scholarship for her stu-
dents, and a better faith for her 400,000,-
ooo. China is building school houses and
railroads and electric plants. She is ready
to welcome the hand that will lift her to
a higher plane in the history of nations.
This is the red letter day of opportunity for
the Christian Church. If Christ were on
earth today saying again 'Go' to his apostles,
I do not know where he would tell them to
'begin' but I think in this age it would be
China, rather than Jerusalem." The trip
home was retarded by the serious illness of
Mrs. Spellmeyer at Bombay, India. On his
return, his official residence was fixed at
St. Louis, Missouri. His last official assign-
ment was to preside over the annual meet-
ing of the New Jersey Conference at At-
lantic City in March, 1910. There he had
presided three full days, winning all hearts
by his fraternal spirit and felicitous bear-
ing. He was particularly enjoyable on Fri-
day, when candidates for the ministry were
being received, and none could have thought
that they were looking upon his face for the
last time. On the morrow they were startled
with the sad news, "Bishop Spellmeyer is
dead," taken from the midst of his own
New Jersey friends, of which most fitting
end Dr. Fred Clare Baldwin writes in the
following lines :

"Here had he caught the Master's call;
Here had he served unceasingly :
Here was he known and loved by all,
Here by the Eastern Sea.

Here were the friends of the days of yore ;
Here were the comrades he loved to greet:
I lere were the homes with the open door,
Here was the welcome sweet.

Here was the soil that he loved to tread;

Here was the land of the smiling sky :

Here was the place where his heart had bled,

Here he came home to die."

Without solicitation from any one, Syra-
cuse LTniversity conferred upon him, on the

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recommendation of Chancellor Sims, the
degree of Doctor of Divinity when he was
thirty-four years of age. In 1905 his alma
mater. New York University, conferred the
degree of Doctor of Laws.

While serving in his first pastorate on
Staten Island he married. November 8.
1871. at Haverstraw, New York. Matilda,
daughter of Rev. Thomas Smith, of the
Newark Conference. There were four chil-
dren ; the eldest, a daughter, married Mr.
James Boote, of East Orange, New Jersey ;
the other three died in infancy.

SUTTON, Frederick,

Financier, Man of Enterprise.

Heroic death was a fate shared by many
of the hundreds of the victims of that great
marine tragedy, the loss of the steamship
"Titanic" in the spring of 1912, but it was
not admiration for a man who had met his
death with fearlessness and fortitude that
caused the former friends and colleagues of
Frederick Sutton to bear testimony of him
as a man of "commanding ability, sterling
integrity, and strong personality, whose as-
pirations were lofty and whose hopes were
ideals." Rather were those words written
in appreciation of one with whom they had
enjoyed pleasant business relations, upon
whose honor they had come to rely, and
whose friendship they counted a precious
possession. Frederick Sutton was long a
resident of Haddonfield, New Jersey, al-
though his business interests were in Phila-
delphia, where he was engaged in coffee
importation, and in public service companies
of New Jersey, notably Wildwood, one of
the popular watering places of the Atlantic
coast.

Frederick Sutton was born in Suffolk-
county, England, in 1850, son of George
and Elizabeth Sutton, and in that country
acquired his education, coming to the
United States at the age of twenty. He
was but twenty-six years of age when he
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& Vansant, a concern whose operations,
large and widespread, brought prosperity
to the partners. Mr. Sutlon's excellent
judgment and business sagacity led him in-
to \vi<e investments of his resources, the de-
velopment of seashore porpcrty being a field
in which he was especially interested. At
the time of the founding of Wildwond, now
a resort with all claims to prominence as
an ideal watering place, he was a heavy in-
vestor, and was a director of the Marine
National Bank of Wildwood, the Five Mile
Beach Electric Company, the North Wild-
wood Land Company, and the Wildwood
Manor Hotel Company, also being a direc-
tor of the West Jersey Electric Company,
with lines running to the above resort. Mr.
Sutton was at the time of his death presi-
dent of the Collingswood (New Jersey)
National Bank.

With so many of his business interests
centering in Philadelphia, he naturally there
Mimed associations of a social nature, and
was a member, among numerous other or-
ganization^ of the Union League, also for
many years serving as president of the So-
ciety of St. George. A brilliant mind and
; le-iMiig personality made him a favorite
among his fellows, and he was a welcome
addition to any gathering.

Mr. Sutton's residence in Haddonfield,
New Jersey, began soon after his establish-
ment of the firm of Sutton & Vansant, and
there he lived at the time of his death. Ill
health had taken him abroad, where he made
a short stay, and he was one of the pas-
sengers on the liner "Titanic" when that
vessel struck an iceberg on her maiden
voyage. His death was mourned with that
sincerity of grief that is the highest tribute
to a man who has lived a life of useful-
ness and rectitude, for into the sixty-two
years of his life he had crowded much of
earnest effort and high attainment. There
follows the resolutions adopted by the
board of directors of the Collingswood
National Bank, of which he was president:

At a special meeting of the board of directors

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of the Collingswood National Hank, held April
22, 1912, convened for the purpose of expressing
its sorrow and deep regret at the untimely and
tragic passing away of their late president and
colleague, Mr. Frederick Sutton, in the disaster
of the steamship Titanic, on the morning of April
15, 191.2, the following resolution was adopted:

Whereas:— The Divine Architect of the Uni-
verse has seen fit to remove from our midst
our devoted President, a man of commanding
ability, sterling integrity, and strong personality,
whose aspirations were lofty and whose hopes
were ideals, who succeeded in many of the ob-
jects for which he strove, who gave his time, his
thoughts, and his means for this institution with-
out any reward ; one who was admired and loved
by his associates for his strength of character,
genial nature, grace, and dignity. To him and his
wise counsel is largely due not only the success-
ful upbuilding of this institution, but also the
growth, development, and success of other asso-
ciations of which he was a part, and

Whereas: — His death leaves his associates and
the Board of Directors of this bank with a pro-
found sense of loss and with the greatest admir-
ation for his many fine qualities of character
and although we deplore his unfortunate end, yet
it is with pride and patriotism that we point to
him as one of the many men who stepped back
on the ill-fated steamship "Titanic" in response
to that noble Anglo-Saxon sentiment "Women
and Children First" and thus died that others
illicit be saved.

Therefore, be it resolved that the Board of
Directors of this bank extend to his relatives and
many friends their heartfelt sympathy and sin-
cere condolence, as we feel that we do not
mourn alone, and further be it resolved that a
copy of this resolution be sent to the family and
that a copy be spread upon the minutes of this
institution.

EDWARD S. SHELDON, Vice-President.
DAVID S. RUSH, Cashier.

Frederick Sutton married, October 18.
1877, Ella, daughter of William Under-
down, still living at the Haddonfield home.
Children: Elizabeth Ashburner, deceased;
Florence Ellen, now Mrs. Francis H. Tom-
lin, of Haddonfield; Jennie Banham. de-
ceased.

GODLEY, John Forman,

Enterprising Business Man.

The late John Forman Godley, of Tren-
ton, New Jersey, was a fine example of a

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man born to command. Wise to plan, quick
in action, capable of prolonged labor, all
these qualities were combined with a power
of close concentration. He had a habit of
investigating thoroughly every detail of a
proposed enterprise, and of calculating
closely the probable consequences of any
given policy. Every subject was given in-
tense thought, and when satisfied with the
conclusions at which he had arrived, he had
the courage of his convictions in the face
of determined opposition. His mistakes in
judgment were few and far between.

William Godley, great-grandfather of
John Forman Godley, married Mary Rock-
hill, daughter of Edward Rockhill, a prom-
inent man of Hunterdon county, Xe\v Jer-
sey.

William Godley, son of William and
Mary ( Rockhill ) Godley, bought a tract of
land of two hundred acres, in Hunterdon
county, New Jersey, in i/<)i, and the fol-
owing year built the large stone homestead
on it. The Godleys were Methodists, and
as there was no church in the neighbor-

h 1. the Presiding Elder held meetings at

regular intervals at this homestead. He
married (first! Abigail Grandin, and when
she died he married (second) her sister
Eleanor (Grandin) Covenhoven. a widow,
daughters of Philip and Eleanor ( F< >rman)
Grandin. Philip Grandin was commission-
ed major of the Second Military Battalion
!iy Governor Franklin, April 10. 1771.

Augustus Godley, son of William and
Eleanor (Grandin — Covenhoven) Godley,
was born on the Godley homestead in Hun-
terdon county, New Jersey. He was the
owner of a mill, and Godley Mills, Hunter-
don county, was named in his honor. He
was also possessor of other extensive lands
in Hunterdon county. New Jersey. He
finally sold his mill and retired to the home-
stead which, after his death, was purchased
by his son, John Forman Godley. Augus-
tus Godley married, (first) Mary Dis-
brough, (second) Elizabeth Paul Forman,
a descendant of Rev. William Forman, of
England, whose son, Robert Forman, had

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returned to England from Holland, having
married Johanna - — , and from thence
immigrating to America, locating in Flush-
ing, Long Island, in 1645. Their son. Aaron
Forman, married Dorothy - — . Their
son, Samuel Forman, High Sheriff of Mon-
mouth, 1695, married Mary Wilfore, of
Rhode Island. Their fourth son, Ezekiel
Forman, married Elizabeth Seabrook, sis-
ter of Daniel Seabrook. Their son. Dr.
Aaron Forman, married Ann Emley, daugh-
ter of John and Sarah (Lawrence) Emley.
Their son, John Emley Forman, married
Sidney Paul Rakestraw. Their daughter,
Elizabeth Paul Forman, became the second
wife of Augustus Godley and mother of
John Forman Godley.

John Forman Godley, son of Augustus
and Elizabeth Paul (Forman) Godley, was
born on the Godley homestead, at Godley
Mills, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, Au-
gust 21, 1845, and died at Trenton, New
Jersey, April 22, 1913. His elementary ed-
ucation was acquired in the town of his
birth, and he then became a student at the
Excelsior Normal Institute at Carversville,
and later at the Attleboro Institution, Penn-
sylvania. About the year 1875 ne removed
to Trenton, and there established himself in
the wholesale bedding and spring business,
in association with Jacob C. Bloom, the firm
name being Bloom & Godley. They com-
menced business in a modest way in a small
building on South Warren street, near Fall
street. Three years later they had outgrown
their quarters, and rented a structure on
South Broad street, opposite Lafayette. The
progressive methods put into practice here
caused a steady and consistent increase in
the demands made upon their business re-
sources, and they soon outgrew these quar-
ters also. In 1889 they erected a large and
modern plant at Nos. 203-207 North Willow
street, which is the present home of this
important concern. It has been found
necessary to improve and make additions
to the original building from time to time
as the growing needs demanded. This firm

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is the only one in the city which manufac-
tures bedding and bed springs, and one of
the very few in the State engaged in this in-
dustry. About eight years prior to the
death of Mr. Godley, the business was in-
corporated, at which time Mr. Godley was
chosen president of the corporation, Mr.
Bloom was made treasurer, and William
Cooley, of Trenton, secretary.

The reliable methods which have char-
acterized this business from the outset have
resulted in gaining the confidence of all who
have had dealings with it, and the majority
of its patrons are of very long standing.
Mr. Godley never held public office, holding
the opinion that he was best serving the in-
terests of the community by devoting his
time and attention to increasing her mater-
ial prosperity by means of his business. He
has, however, always been a generous and
hearty supporter of any project which tend-
ed for the public welfare in any particular.
Of a deeply religious nature, Mr. Godley
was a member of the Third Presbyterian
Church for a period of thirty-five year>.
during thirty of which he taught a class of
young men in the Sunday school. He was a
member of the church session for almost
a quarter of a century, serving as sessional
treasurer about eighteen years. In early
years he became a member of the Young
Men's Christian Association, and at the
time of his death had been a director of this
organization for many years. His fine and
commodious residence was at No. 197 West
State street.

Mr. Godley married Sarah E. Hunt,
youngest daughter of Edward and Effie
Hunt, of Milford, New Jersey. He was
buried in Milford Union Cemetery, in the
beautiful family plot, marked by a hand-
some granite monument, of noble propor-
tions. The view from here, looking up the
river to the west among the hills to the set-
ting sun, is most charming and not to be
forgotten by those who have looked upon
the beautiful scene. Mr. Godley was of a
genial, warm-hearted disposition, and his

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generosity and philanthropy were well
known. A tale of distress was always a
passport to his sympathetic heart, and he
did not rest until the trouble had been allev-
iated to the best of his ability. The entire
career of Mr. Godley was marked by up-
rightness and sincerity of purpose.

MERSELIS, Edo I.,

Financier, Man of Affairs.

The life history of Edo I. Merselis, late
of Paterson. New Jersey, one of the best
known and most highly esteemed citizens of
the community in which he lived, has been
replete with work well and conscientiously
performed. He was not a man to shrink
from any duty however irksome, and he
had inherited in rich measure the steling
traits which distinguished his ancestors, con-
cerning whom it is fitting at this place to
say a few words.

There are several traditions regarding the
racial origin of this family, and it may be
said that not all chroniclers of its history
are agreed in respect to the manner of
spelling the surname now generally recog-
nized and written as Merselis. Nor is this
surprising when we consider the fact that
those sturdy old Holland Dutch immigrants
came to America without family names, and
when finally such were adopted, they fre-
quently were spelled phonetically rather
than in accordance with established family
custom. A. A. Vosterman Van Oyen, keep-
er of the Heraldic College genealogical ar-
chives of the Netherlands, in one of his pub-
lications says: "although the ancestor of
the family known to us and belonging to
the Danish nobility was born at Hamburg
it seems, however, that the family originat-
ed from some other place, very likely Den-
mark. Several patrician families of this
name lived in Belgium, whose coat armour,
however, not only differ each from the oth-
er, but also do not show any comparison
with the different branches raised to the
Danish nobility." J. B. Rietstap, in his

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"Coat Armor of the Netherland Nobility,"
mentions a coat of arms as follows: "in
silver an elephant in natural color upon a
meadow whereon are three trees ; the one
in the middle is placed before the elephant.
This animal carries upon his back a tower,
from which a female rises in red or seen
from aside. The crest is the elephant with
the tower and female." He claims this to
be a coat patented to a Van Marselis. Sep-
tember 17, 1643. The first Van Marselis
of the Netherlands to whom the American
branch can trace its ancestry in an unbroken
line is :

(I) Jan Van Marselis. born in the early
part of the year 1500, married N. N. Van
der March.

(II) Jan Van Marselis. son of Jan and
N. N. (Van der March) Van Marselis,
married Dina Van Duffel d'Elswith.

(III) Gabriel Van Marselis. son of Jan
and Dina (Van Duffel d' Elswith) Van
Marselis. resident at Commissary of the
King of Denmark at Hamburg, married
Anna Ehrmit d'Ermitage, and died at Ham-
burg. July 20, 1643. They had four sons :
Gabriel ; Pieter, of further mention ; Leon-
ard : Silvius ; and one daughter.

'IV) Pieter Van Marselis. son of Ga-
briel and Anna Ehrmit (d'Armitage) Van
Marselis, was born in Hamburg in the early
part of 1600. He represented Russia at the
Court of Denmark and was elevated to the
Danish nobility, September 17, 1643, and
granted the coat of armor described by
Rietstap, as mentioned above. He was the
progenitor of the American branch of the
Van Marselis family. He left Amsterdam,
Holland, in April, 1661, with his wife and
four children (Aged respectively twelve,
six, four and two years) and with their
two servants, in the Dutch West India ship
"Beaver" or "Bever," and arrived at New
Amsterdam ''New York), May 9 of the
same year. The ships register shows that
he paid two hundred thirty-two florins pas-
sage money for his family of eight persons,
from which it is evident that our immigrant

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ancestor was possessed of goodly means as
well as being a person of consequence. He
soon removed to Bergen, New Jersey, set-
tled there, and died in 1682. His wife died
there in 1680. The place where he settled
was then a Dutch hamlet and Indian trading
post on the hill between the Hudson river
and Newark Bay, in the Indian county of
Scheyichbi, in the New Netherlands. There
he acquired lands and became a planter. He
was appointed schepen (alderman) of Ber-
gen county, August 18, 1673, during the re-
occupation of New Netherlands by the
Dutch, and as a mark of honor was buried
under the Dutch Church of Bergen, at his
death, September 4, 1682. On August 20,
1682, he conveyed property to his son-in-
law. Roeloff Van Houten.

In this connection it is well to mention that
this Pieter Van Marselis is identical with
him of whom Riker records as Pieter Mar-
celisen, or Peter Marcelis, and who, ac-
cording to the same authority, was born in
Beest, near Leerdam, province of Utrecht,
Holland ; and he is the same Pieter Marcel-
isen referred to by Neafie, himself a de-
scendant of Pieter, and who says in his
historical narrative that Pieter "might have
been born in Leerdam, but when he came
to America he was from the village of Beest,
near the town of Buren, in the province of
Gelderland," and also that at least three of
his children were born in Beest. Riker
also notes that he is said to have been Van
Beest, which means "from Beest." It may
be stated here that this Pieter Van Marsel-
is dropped the prefix Van from his name.

According to Harvey, the historian of
Bergen county, the children of Pieter Mar-
celisen were James, Jannetje, Pieter, Mer-
selis, Elizabeth and Hillegond. Mr. Labaw
says "the name and sex of the first one we
do not know ;" that the second was called
Marcelis (always called Marcelis Pieterse) ;
the third Jannetje, who married Roelof
Helmigse Van Houten ; and the fourth
Neesje Pieterse, who married Gerrit Gerrit-
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of the four children of Pieter who accom-
panied their parents to America. A more
recent, and perhaps more accurate account
of the children of Pieter Van Marcelis is as
follows: i. Hessil Pieterse, married (first)
Lysbot Kuper, (second), February 6, 1714,
Magdelena Bruyn. 2. Marcelis Pieterse, of
further mention. 3. Jannetje Pieterse. mar-
ried, September 3, 1676, Helmigh Roelofer
Van Houten, ancestor of all the American
Van Houtens. 4. Neesje Pieterse, married,
May II, 1681, Gerrit Gerritse Van Wag-
eningen, and became ancestor of the Van
Wagoner and Garritse families.

(V) Marcelis Pieterse Van Marselis,
second child of Pieter Van "Marselis or Mer-
celisen, is accorded progenitorship of the
Preakness families of the Merselis surname.
He was born about 1656, and died, October
23 , 1747. He married, May 12, 1681,
Pieterjie Van Vorst, daughter of Ide and
Hieletje (Hulda) Jans. Children (perhaps
others of whom appears no record) : Eliz-
abeth, married Adrain Post, Jr. ; Hillegont-
je, married Harpert Garrabant; Pieter, of
further mention ; Edo, married Ariantje
Sip, a cousin; Annetje; Catreyna, married
Reynier Van Geisen ; Leena, married Dirck
Van Giesen ; Jannetje, married Johann Van
Zolingen.

(VI) Pieter (Peter) Van Marselis, son
of 'Marcelis (or Merselis Pieterse) Van
Marselis, was baptized July 17, 1687, and
died April i, 1770. He married, December
3, 1717, Janneke Prior. Children : Mersel-
is, married Elizabeth Vlierboom ; - — ,
died in infancy ; daughter, name unknown ;
Pieter, married in New York, Hannah Els-
worth ; Andries : John, married Beletje Van
Wagonen ; Edo, of further mention ; two
children, died in infancy : Antje : Tohannee ;
Jenneke, married Gerrit Sip : Rachel : Mary ;
Elizabeth.

(VII) Edo Van Merselis, seventh child
of Pieter and Janneke (Prior) Van Mer-
selis, was born January 27, 1729, and died
October 12, 1799. He is said to have been
the first Merselis to settle in what afterward

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became Wayne township, where he had a
large and valuable tract of land which, after
his death, was divided into several small
farms ; his old homestead is still owned by
his descendants. He made a public dona-
tion of land for a burial ground and meet-
ing house site. He married, April 1 1, 1754,
Ariante Sip, daughter of Ide and Antje
(Van Wagonen) Sip. Children (May have
I < n others of whom there is no record) :
Antje, married Simeon Van Winkle ; Tan-
netje, married (first) Adrain Van Houten,
(second) Enoch J. Vreeland ; Pieter, mar-
ried Jannetje (Hettie) Van Winkle; Edo,
married Helen Van Houten ; Cornelius,
married Maria Post ; John, married Jan-
netje Van Riper; Catlyntje, married Isaac
Van Saun, of Lower Preakness ; Arreyant-
je, married John Parke ; Gerrit of further
mention.

(VIII) Gerrit Merselis, youngest son
and child of Edo and Ariantje (Sip) Van
Marselis, was born in Preakness, New Jer-
sey, October i, 1777, and died, April 2, 1843,
on the old homestead farm where his life
had been chiefly spent. He married. May
3, 1799, Ellen (or Lena) De Gray. Chil-
dren (may have been others): 'Marea;
Jane; Edo; John D., of further mention;
Ann; Peter G., married Eleanor F. Sickles;
Ellen.

(IX) John D. Merselis, son and fourth
child of Gerrit and Ellen (De Gray) Mer-
selis, was born February u, 1809, and died
February 21, 1877. He married (first),
July 4, 1829, Catherine Garritse; (second),
October 3, 1839, Esther Jane Berdan,
daughter of John I. and Elizabeth (Goet-
schius) Berdan. Children by first marriage :
Mary, died unmarried ; Garrit, married
Annie J. Zabriskie ; John Garritse, mar-
ried Gertrude Van Blarcom ; Ellen lane,
married Nicholas J. Demarest ; Catherine
Elizabeth, married Peter A. Van Houten.
Children by second marriage : Anna, mar-
ried Aaron K. Garrabrant ; David Henry,
married Martha Jane Titus; Edo; Edo I.,
of further mention.

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(X) Edo I. Merselis, son of John D. and
Esther Jane (Berdan) Merselis, was born
in Clifton, New Jersey, September 17, 1847,
and died in Paterson, New Jersey, Janu-
ary 5, 1908. He was given a good educa-
tion, a part of which was acquired in the
grammar school in Paterson, and it was
completed in a business college in New York
City, from which institution he was gradu-
ated. At the age of twenty-two years he
secured a position with the Paterson Sav-
ings Institution, of which he was one of the
organizers, and was actively connected with
the institution from its inception. Being
eminently fitted for the work in the bank
by reason of the excellent business educa-
tion he had received, and his experience as
a clerk in one of the other banks of the city,
the fidelity of the young man won for him
recognition, and he was advanced from time
to time until he was considered one of the
most valuable men in the banking rooms.
Scores of men and women have waited pa-
tiently for Mr. Merselis to be disengaged in
order that they might personally obtain his
advice in business matters. He won the
confidence of the public many years ago,
because he was a man who never practiced
deception, doing the very best he could to
help his fellow men in a way that would
bring them the highest benefit. His death
was a severe loss to the institution and to
the entire city of Paterson. Mr. Merselis
was also officially connected with the First
National Bank of Paterson. For many
years after his marriage Mr. Merselis lived
in the old Merselis homestead at the corner
of Water and Albion streets. He was a
regular attendant at the Second Reformed
Church near his home, an active worker in
every department of it, holding the highest
offices in the gift of the congregation. His
example before the youth of the church, in
the bank and among his friends, was al-
ways one that might be followed with profit
to all. For several years previous to his
death Mr. Merselis lived on the East Side,
but he continued 1' l.e faithful to the "over

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the river" church. He was interested in
every movement that was for the betterment
of the city and its people. He was careful
in expressing opinions and was a man who
never swerved from what he believed to
be right. His quiet and courteous manner
was noticeable and his influence in the right
direction on every question was marked. He
advised always, as it was not in his disposi-
tion to scold even when there was occasion
for it. The bank treasurer was noted for
his regular habits, Driving at his daily du-
ties at the proper hour, and performing his
tasks in a conscientious manner. Mr. Mer-
selis served five years as a private in Com-
pany A, First Battalion, First Brigade,
National Guard of New Jersey, and was
honorably discharged, August II, 1885. He
was a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, the North Jersey Country
Club, and the Hamilton Club of Paterson.

The home life of Mr. Merselis was ideal.
His family always knew when to expect
him home, and he never disappointed his
friends. He loved the associations of his
own fireside, and it can be said truly that
his whole time was passed between his du-
ties at the bank and the home circle. In
social life he had many friends, and was
a man who gave his acquaintances a warm
welcome to his home ; but he found his chief
happiness and source of contentment in
those who were most nearly connected with
him — his wife and children — to whom he
was a devoted and loving husband and fath-
er. The illness of Mr. Merselis was of
short duration, and was of a very serious
nature from its very commencement. He
was at his duties the day after New Year's,
although suffering from a severe cold, as
were the other members of his family. He
lost his strength rapidly, and on the Satur-
day prior to his death, his family were in-
formed by the physicians that his condition
was a critical one, and the end probably
not far off.

Mr. Merselis married in Paterson, Sep-
tember 21, 1869, Sarah V. Zeluff, born Sep-

tember l<>. 1852, a daughter of John 1'. and
Sarah Jane (I'.oone) /duff; granddaugh-
ter of Peter and Margaret ('Sernr) Xeluff ;
and granddaughter of James and Catherine
(Van lli'iitrn) Bonne. The only child of
this marriage is: Cilia Anlella. Imni in Pat-
erson, August 16, 1870. She married,
March 19, 1896, Leslie Van Wagoner, and
has had children: Edith .Merselis, born
February 28, 1897 : Isabelle Merselis, Jan-
uary 29, 1899; Sarah Merselis, November

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COXE. John Redman,

Physician, Professional Instructor.

John Redman Coxe, M. D.. was born in
Trenton, New Jersey, in 1773. He was ed-
ucated in the schools of Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, studied for his profession in Scot-
land, and in 1794 was licensed to practice
medicine. He subsequently spent two years
in professional studies in Europe, and after
his return in 1796 began practice in Phila-
delphia. He served as physician to the hos-
pitals there, and in 1809 was appointed to
the chair of chemistry in the University of
Pennsylvania. In 1818 he was transferred
to the chair of materia medica and phar-
macy, and held it until 1835, when his col-
leagues made a statement to the trustees de-
claring the department of materia medica
and pharmacy to be of too little importance
to occupy the entire time of a professor,
also asserting that Professor Coxe was in-
competent to discharge the duties of the
position, and recommending his removal
from the faculty. This demand was car-
ried into effect, much to the indignation of
Dr. Coxe's friends. Dr. Coxe's subsequent
record abundantly refuted the charge of
incompetency.

Dr. Coxe was the author of numerous
works: "Inflammation" (1794); "Impor-
tance and Respectability of the Science of
Medicine" ( 1800) ; "Vaccination" (1802);
"Combustion" (1811) ; "Emporium of Arts
and Sciences" 2 volumes, (1812); "The

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American Dispensatory (5th edition, 1822) ;
"An Inquiry into the Claims of William
Harvey to the Discovery of the Circulation
of the Blood" ( 1834) ; "Recognition of
Friends in Another World" (1845); an^
"The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen,
epitomized from the original translations"
(1846). He also translated Orfila's "Prac-
tical Chemistry" (1818); and edited "The
Philadelphia Medical Museum" from 1805
to 1811. He died in Philadelphia. Pennsyl-
vania, March 22, 1864.

DURAND, Cyrus and Asher B.,

Pioneer Engravers.

Cyrus Durand was born in Jefferson,
New Jersey, February 27, 1787, son of a
watchmaker, and descended from Hugue-
not ancestors. He learned the trade of his
father, and added to it a knowledge of the
construction of machinery, in which he
found profitable employment during the en-
forcement of the non-intercourse acts of
the British Parliament. In 1814 he located
in Newark, New Jersey, and engaged in
business as a silversmith. He volunteered
as a drummer in the United States army,
and served three months during the war of
1812-14. Returning home, in 1815, he con-
structed machines for carding and weaving
hair, to be used in manufacturing carpets.
He then directed his attention to banknote
engraving, and he made machines for lathe
work and straight line engraving. This was
apparently the beginning of geometrical
lathe work, afterward universally used in
banknote engraving. He also built machines
for engine turning and transfer presses. He
was chief of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, Washington, D. C, for many
years, and died in Irvington, New Jersey,
September 18, 1868.

He married Mrs. Phoebe Woodruff, who
lived to lie one hundred years old, and they
had six children. Of these, Jane Wade be-

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came the wife of the Rev. John L. Chap-
man ; Elias Wade became a noted landscape
painter ; and Rev. Cyrus B. Durand was
rector of St. James' Church, Newark, New
Jersey.

Asher Brown Durand, a younger broth-
er of Cyrus Durand, was born in Jefferson,
New Jersey, August 21 st, 1796. He learn-
ed the art of engraving in the shop of his
father, and in 1812 was apprenticed to Peter
Maverick, engraver, with whom he became
a partner in 1817. His engraving of "Truin-
bull's Declaration of Independence," his
first large work, which cost him three years
of labor, at once brought him into favorable
notice. The National Portrait Gallery con-
tains many of his heads ; and his "Musi-
dora" and "Ariadne" are excellent speci-
mens of art. After ten years' practice as a
painter, he relinquished engraving in 1835,
and devoted himself chiefly to landscape
painting. His pictures are pleasing in color
and tone, and evince a high degree of poet-
ic feeling and appreciation. The principal
of his figure-pieces are, "An Old Man's
Reminiscences," "The Wrath of Peter
Stuyvesant," "God's Judgment on Gog,"
"The Dance on the Battery," and "The Cap-
ture of Andre." Among the more notable
of his landscapes are, "The Morning and
Evening of Life," a pair, "Lake Scene-
Sunset," "The Rainbow" ; wood scene,
"Primeval Forest," "In the Woods," "The
Symbol." from Goldsmith's "Deserted Vil-
lage," "Franconia Mountains." and "Rem-
iniscences of Catskill Cloves." In 1854 he
painted a portrait of the poet, William Cul-
len Bryant. He was among the founders of
the National Academy of Design, of which
he was president, 1845-61. He died in South
Orange, New Jersey, September 17, 1886.
His son, John Durand, became a prominent
art critic, and for several years conducted
"The Crayon," a monthly publication spec-
ially devoted to the fine arts.

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WOOD, George Bacon,

Physician, Author.

George Bacon Wood was born in Green-
wich, Cumberland county, New Jersey,
March I3th, 1797. He was educated at the
University of Pennsylvania, from which he
was graduated in 1815 with the degree of
A. B., and in 1818 with that of T\l. D. He
was Professor of Chemistry in the Phila-
delphia College of Pharmacy from 1822 to
1831, Professor of Materia Medica from
1835 to 1850, and Professor of the Theory
and Practice of Medicine from 1850 to
1860; he was also a physician in the Penn-
esylvania Hospital from 1835 to 1859.

He was the author of numerous and val-
uable works, chiefly relating to his profes-
sion, and which rank among the classics of
the medical sciences. His first important
work, "The Dispensatory of the United
States,'1 written in conjunction with Frank-
lin Bache, M. D.. (great-grandson of Ben-
jamin Franklin), the original edition being
published in Philadelphia in 1833 (8vo.,
1073 pages), at once stamped him as one
whose research and professional knowledge
were of the highest order. It was thor-
oughly exhaustive in its description of the
many medicinal agents peculiar to American
practice, indicating minutely their various
properties and effects. During the lifetime
of Dr. Wood it went through thirteen edi-
tions, about 150,000 copies having been sold.
Before 1830 there had not been any United
States pharmacopoeia or standard list of
medicines and their preparation whose au-
thority was generally recognized. In the
year mentioned, two such lists were offered
to the public, one prepared in New York,
the other chiefly the work of Dr. Wood. In
a severe review, Dr. Wood completely dem-
olished the first of these, and by writing the
"United States Dispensatory" caused the
authority of the other to be universally ac-
knowledged. In 1847 ne published a
"Treatise on the Practice of Medicine"
(two volumes), which ran through six edi-

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tions, the last being in 1867. He also pub-
lished in 1856 a "Treatise on Therapeutics
and Pharmacology," which had three edi-
tions, (two volumes, 8vo., 1848 pages), and
a volume containing twelve lectures, six ad-
dresses and two biographical memoirs, in
1859. It consisted of lectures and address-
es on medical subjects, delivered chiefly be-
fore the medical classes of the University
of Pennsylvania. He also wrote "The His-
tory of the Pennsylvania Hospital ;" ''His-
tory of the University of Pennsylvania" ;
"Biographical Memoir of Franklin Bache,"
etc. In the first and last of these pamphlets
will be found an account of Wood and
Bache's "Dispensatory and United States
Pharmacopoeia," of which he, in connection
with Dr. Bache and others, was editor of the
editions of 1831, 1840, 1850 and 1860. In
1872 these memoirs, with the addition of
the "History of Christianity in India," "The
British Indian Empire," "Girard College,"
and other papers, were collected into a vol-
ume entitled "Memoirs, Essays and Ad-
dresses." In 1865 he endowed an auxiliary
faculty in the University of Pennsylvania,
consisting of five chairs : one of zoology
and comparative anatomy : one of botany ;
one of geology and mineralogy ; one of hy-
giene ; and one of medical jurisprudence, all
of the subjects to be especially considered
in their relation to medicine. Dr. Wood
was president of the American Philosoph-
ical Society in 1859; and for many years
president of the College of Physicians in
Philadelphia. He died in that city, March
20, 1879.

RUST, George P.,

Lawyer, Public Official.

Although not a native of Passaic or of
the State of New Jersey. George P. Rust
was so intimately connected with the pro-
fessional interest of that city, in which he
resided from boyhood, that few knew it
was his adopted city. Of Holland and Ger-
man parentage, one of a large family of

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children, his start in life was humble, but suit "The Newark Aqueduct Board vs. The

by his own talent and energy he rose to a
leading position among men of mark. He
was a hard worker, and from the time he
graduated from high school, at the age of
fifteen, his life was one of intense appli-
cation, but rewarded by abundant success
as a lawyer, business man and citizen.

George P. Rust, son of Andrew and Hen-
rietta (Gerber) Rust, was born in Brook-
lyn, New York, March 9. 1861, and died
in Passaic, New Jersey, April 21, 1913. He
attended the Brooklyn public schools until
he was twelve years of age, then accompan-
ied his parents to Passaic, which was ever
afterward his home. He there entered the
high school, completing the course and grad-
uating with the class of '/6, ranking high
in scholarship. He was determined to be-
come a lawyer, and from graduation until
he was twenty-one, he was office boy, clerk
and law student in the offices of the late
Henry K. Coddington, an eminent lawyer
of Passaic. He was fully qualified for ad-
mission to the bar, and in 1882, on attain-
ing legal age, he was admitted an attorney
at the first term of the court held after at-
taining his majority. He at once began
practice in Passaic, was admitted a coun-
cilor at the June term, 1885.

On February 25th. 1901, on the motion
cf the Honorable John W. Griggs, then At-
torney-General of the United States, he was
admitted to practice as an attorney and
counsellor-at-law of the Supreme Court of
the United States. He was hard working
and painstaking, preparing his cases with
the greatest care, and as he grew in experi-
ence he became the peer of the strongest
men of the Passaic bar. He was associated
as counsel with many important cases, and
at the age of twenty-six was appointed city
counsel for the City of Passaic, serving
from 1887 until 1894. In this capacity he
was associated with John W. Griggs, later
Governor of New Jersey and Attorney-Gen-
eral of the United States, in the important

City of Passaic," a celebrated case, to be
found in New Jersey Law Reports, and
which was a suit to prevent Passaic from
sewering into the Passaic river. Another
noted case in which he was counsel was,
"In the matter of the application to con-
firm an assessment for the construction of a
sewer in the City of Passaic." He drafted
the "King Law," under which a permanent
board of assessors was created, a law that,
although fiercely attacked and criticized,
was declared by the courts to be constitu-
tional. So well was that law drafted that
it stood for nine years without amendment.
After retiring from the office of city coun-
sel, Mr. Rust resumed private practice, and
when his earthly career closed, the finest
eulogies pronounced were those of his legal
brethren. He was a man of strong char-
acter, high principles, was generous, just
and upright, numbered his friends among
all classes and was held in the highest es-
teem. Mr. Rust was also actively connect-
ed with Passaic's business interests and en-
terprises. He was one of the organizers
of the People's Bank and Trust Company,
the Hobart Trust Company, and of the
Guarantee Mortgage and Title Insurance
G nviany. serving the latter as its first vice-
president and general counsel. He was for
twenty years proprietor of the "Passaic
Daily News." He was elected a member
of the board of education in 1886, and was
ever a friend of the public school system.
He was appointed on the first shade tree
commission in Passaic, and took a lively
interest for many years in the development
of the beautiful trees for which the city is
noted. In politics he was a Republican. He
was of genial nature, and enjoyed the soci-
ety of his friends and fellow members of
the State Bar Association, the Acquacka-
nonk Club, the Passaic Club, the Yountakah
Country Club of Passaic, and the Republi-
can Club of New York City.

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FREEMAN, Alexander Hamilton,

Progressive Citizen, Public Official.

The name Freeman carries back in New
Jersey to the signing of the "Fundamen-
tal Agreement," October 30, 1666, Stephen
Freeman having been one of the Milford
signers. He was of English parentage, and
one of the original settlers of Milford, Con-
necticut, in 1646. Newark (New Jersey)
records show that "Widow Hannah Free-
man (survey of land 1667) hath for her
division of upland lying near the Mountain,
containing forty acres.'' Whether after the
death of her husband about 1680, she mov-
ed to the "Mountain" is not known, but
her son Samuel inherited it from her, and
his son Samuel (2) Freeman and his sons
Deacon Samuel (3), Timothy, Abel and
Thomas, it is said owned all the land lying
between South Orange avenue on the south
and the old cable road on the north.

Deacon Samuel (3) Freeman was born
at the "Mountain" homestead of his fath-
er, in 1716, died in Orange, October 21,
1782. He was elected deacon of the First
Presbyterian Church of Orange in 1748,
and held that office continuously until his
death, thirty-four years. The contract for
building the church edifice for the First
Presbyterian Church of Orange was made
by Samuel Freeman with Moses Baldwin.

Joseph Freeman, youngest son of Deacon
Samuel, and of the fifth American gener-
ation, was a soldier of the Revolution, serv-
ing with the Essex county militia. After
the war ended, he moved to the Hudson
Valley of New York, in Saratoga county.
It is said one of his sons was chosen the
first mayor of Schenectady. Another of
his sons, Uzal W. Freeman, was a survey-
or, laid out some of the streets in upper
New York City, and is said to have made
the first city maps of Paterson, New Jer-
sey. He married Sarah Ann Angevine, of
Huguenot descent, who settled in New Ro-
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Gilbert Angevine, a soldier of the Revolu-
tion.

From this hardy, honorable stock came
Alexander Hamilton Freeman, born in New
York City, December 30, iSio, died in
Orange, New Jersey, December 16, 1883.
At the age of seven years his father moved
to Montville, Morris county. New Jersey,
and four years later to Paterson, New Jer-
sey. After attending school until sixteen
years of age, he began learning the tin-
smith's trade in Paterson, completing his
years of apprenticeship, and becoming a
high class workman. In 1836 he establish-
ed a shop in Orange, on Main street, near
Harrison, remained one year, and then re-
turned to Paterson. In 1844 he again lo-
cated in Orange, building a shop and res-
idence on Main street, near Hillyer. As
he prospered, he enlarged his business, pur-
chased additional business property, erect-
ed store buildings, and although twice a
victim of costly fires, he rebuilt, prospered,
and left behind him a name honored in bus-
iness circles. His character was a strong
uncompromising one. right was right, wrong
was wrong, and there was no middle
ground. He supported with all his energy
every movement for the betterment of his
city, and no man was held in higher esteem.
I '| Tightness and energy were his dominant
traits, and although for many years in offi-
cial public life, no man ever questioned his
integrity. For thirty years, Mr. Freeman
held the office of justice of the peace ; for
ten years he was a member of the Orange
board of education, and for four years he
was a member of the city common council.
His work for the public schools was con-
tinuous and valuable. He was president of
the board of education at the time of his
death, and has left to posterity an elaborate
history of the public schools of Orange.

In politics he was a Republican, but before
the founding of that party was an Abol-
itionist ; strongly championing the cause of
the slave, and often offending those less ad-

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vanced in thought than himself. He was a
delegate to the Buffalo Convention of 1842
that nominated an Abolition ticket headed
In James ( i. I limey for president, but when
ih. Republican party made slavery an issue,
he promptly allied himself with that party.
He was an equally earnest worker for the
cause of temperance, was a leading member
of the Temple of Honor, ( then a prominent
temperance society), held all offices in the
State society, and for one year was head
<if the national order. In religious faith he
was a Presbyterian, belonging to the First
Church of Orange, serving for several
years as elder. He excelled in "good
works" and left to his children a name be-
yond reproach.

Mr. Freeman married Lucinda, daughter
of Judge Benjamin Crane, for twenty-five
years judge of Morris county courts. She
was a lineal descendant of Jasper Crane,
the founder of the Crane family in Essex
county, whose son, "Deacon" Azariah, mar-
ried a daughter of Governor Treat. Mrs.
Freeman died August 5, 1889, and was laid
to rest with her husband in "beautiful"
Rosedale Cemetery. Children: i. J. Addi-
son, M. I)., a surgeon of the Union army,
serving with the Thirteenth Regiment New
Jersey Volunteers, and the United States
Volunteer Corps appointed by President
Lincoln, in charge of the United States Gen-
eral Hospital, at Nashville, where he died
<>f pneumonia, December 29, 1864. His
body was brought to Orange, and buried in
the family plot in Rosedale. He was aged
thirty-one years, a graduate of Princeton,
class of '52. and graduate of College of
Physicians and Surgeons, M. D., class of
'56, 2. Ginevra, now a resident of Orange,
New Jersey. 3. Wilberforce, (q. v.).

FREEMAN, Wilberforce,

I/awyer, Leader in Community Affairs.

\Yilberforce Freeman, younger son of
Alexander Hamilton and Lucinda (Crane)
Freeman, was born in Paterson, New Jer-

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sey, August 8, 1842, and died in Orange,
June 19, 1907. He prepared in private
schools, then entered Princeton College, and
there was graduated at the head of the class
of '64. Deciding upon the professon of law,
he entered the Law School of Columbia
University, and was graduated LL. B., class
of '<>8. In 1871 he was admitted counsel-
lor at law, and until his death was engaged
in the practice of his profession in Orange,
an honored member of the Essex county
bar. He was junior member of the firm of
Blake & Freeman, and conducted the larg-
est practice enjoyed by any firm in the
county outside of the city of Newark.
He practiced in all State and Federal courts
of the district, was a member of the county
and State bar associations, and held in high
esteem by his brethren of the profession.

His public service was long and valuable.
He was elected a member of the common
council in 1868; succeeded his father as a
member of the board of education in 1883,
and served twelve years, most of that time
chairman of the teachers committee ; served
fourteen years as a member of the board of
excise commissioners, was one of the three
men composing the first board, and served
until two months prior to his death, when he
resigned, having been four times reappoint-
ed. In 1869 with his partner, John L.
Blake (afterward Congressman), he draft-
ed the revised charter for Orange, they also
drafting several ordinances necessary under
the new charter. Among these was one de-
vised by Mr. Freeman, under which it was
possible for saloon keepers to be punished
for "receiving and entertaining" people on
Sunday. He was one of the active men of
the Republican party, a hard worker, sound
in judgment, and honest in every purpose.

Among the financial institutions he served
as attorney, was the Half Dime Savings
Hank of Orange, his service beginning with
its organization in May, 1870. Twelve years
later he was elected president of the bank,
an office he held until his death, twenty-five
years later. At a special meeting of the di-

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rectors, the following resolutions were
adopte4 ;

"The ffeard of managers of the Half Dime
Savings Bank of Orange hears of the death of
Wilberforqe Freeman, late president, with regret
and believ^ that his loss to the bank is almost
irreparable.- He was connected with the bank
officially from the date of its organization in
1870, when he was elected counsel, until 1882,
then was annually elected president until the date
of his death. His efforts were untiring in pro-
moting the interests of the institution, managers
and depositors being indebted to him more than
to any other man for its present prosperity. His
judgment as to value was excellent, and invest-
ments made under his supervision were safe with-
out question. Guided by the same principles of
strictest integrity, as in his private business, he
considered his position one of the greatest trusts,
and so directed its affairs as to absolutely pro-
tect the interests confided to his care. Conserva-
tive to a fault, leaning at times to a seeming
depreciation, he never wavered in his insistence
that no suggestion of the slightest enhancement
of values, should be used for appearance sake
His clearly considered guidance will be missed
in our consultations and this tribute is ordered
entered on our records as an evidence of our
appreciation of his valuable and sustaining per-
sonality and his usefulness to the public as a
citizen and associate."

Resolutions of respect and appreciation
were also passed by the Essex County Bar
Association, and out of respect for his mem-
ory the District Court adjourned the after-
noon of his funeral. The Half Dime Bank
closed its doors that afternoon, as did the
store of Hindle & Williams, a business
founded by Alexander Hamilton Freeman.

Mr. Freeman was a member of the New
England Society, from 1871, served as vice-
president, counsellor, and chairman of the
committee on amendments. He was an ac-
tive member of the New Jersey Historical
Society, the Princeton Alumni Association,
and the Washington Association. He was
actively interested in the welfare of the Re-
publican party, and served as a presidential
elector for McKinley and Roosevelt in 1900.
His clubs were the Essex County Country
and the Lawyers.

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ROMEYN, Rev. Theodore Bayard,

Revered Clergyman.

The Ri-v. Theodore llayard Ivmvyn, 1).
D., late 01 ! lackensack. New Jersey, a noted
divine of the Reformed Church in America,
comes of a family which has been dis-
tinguished in professional life for many gen-
erations, and more especially in the ministry.
A brief review of the earlier generations,
appears appropriate here.

Prior to the middle of the thirteenth cen-
tury, Giacomo de Ferentino. an Italian
gentleman, settled at Rongham Manor. Nor-
folk, England, married [sabella <le kuclium.
a lady of that place, by whom there were
two sons: Peter and Richard or Thomas
They were sent to Rome to be educated, and
after their return. Peter at least, took the
surname of Romaeyn, Peter the Roman. Al-
though educated for the priesthood, he mar-
ried the daughter of Thomas de Leicester,
whose wife was Agatha de Cringleford, of
Norfolk. Peter Romaeyn devised property,
made out leases, granted "charters," many
of which still exist over the name assumed
by him. His widow sold the property at
Rongham in that name. In the third year
of Edward II., 1387 A. D., Thomas Ro-
Mayn was lord mayor of London. His
arms (foreign) not granted in England,
were described in the Register : "Argent on a
fesse gules three crosses or. Crest : A deer's
head erased." Soon after the above date,
troubles broke out between the king and the
House of Leicester, and many of this family
and their adherents were obliged to flee the
country. Some of them went to the "low
countries." The name is spelled Romaine
in France, Remain in England, and Ro-
meyn in Holland. Jan Romeyn, of Amster-
dam, Holland, was a descendant of the Eng-
lish Romeyns. He had three sons : Simon
Janse, Christoffel, and Class or Klass. In
"Valentine's Manual of the Common Coun-
cil of New York, 1863," we find the fac-
simile signature of Simon Jansen Romeyn,

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in the Dutch church records of New
York Is the marriage, 1668, of "Simon Jan-
sen Ronicyn, young man from Amsterdam,
and Sophie Jans, maiden from the Hague."
Cliristoffel and Claus sailed from Rotter-
dam for Brazil with the expedition of
i'rince Maurice. When Brazil was ceded to
Portugal, they sailed for New Netherlands,
and settled on Long Island, either in
1654 or 1661, then removed to Hackensack,
Xrw Jersey, remaining about ten years,
then to Greenwich, on the Island of New
York. Claus married Christianje or Styntie
Albertse Terhune, May 2, 1680, of Ams-
fort. now Gravesend, New York, and died
at ( ireenwich, New York.

John Romeyn, son of Claus and Chris-
tianje Albertse (Terhune) Romeyn, mar-
ried at Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1699,
Lammatje Bougeart. and had seven chil-
dren.

Nicholas Romeyn, son of John and Lam-
matje (Bougeart) Romeyn, married (first)
Klizabeth Cutwater, and (second) Rachel
Vreelandt. One of his grandsons, by his
second wife, was the Rev. Theodoric Dirk
Romeyn, I). D., who is largely quoted, and
was among the most prominent American
theologians of the earlier days.

Rev. Thomas Romeyn, son of Nicholas
and Elizabeth (Outwater) Romeyn, was
graduated from the College of New Jersey
in 1750, and then studied theology. After
preaching on Long Island a few times, he
went to Holland for ordination, and then
settled on Long Island, at Jamaica, until
iSdo. He died at Fonda, New York, and
was buried under the pulpit of his church.
He married (first) Margarita Freelinghuy-
sen, (second) Susanna Van Campen.

Rev, litmes Van Campen Romeyn, son
of Rev. Thomas and Susanna (Van Camp-
en) Ixomeyn, after proper preparation.
-Uidie-d theology under the Rev. Theodor-
ic I )irk Ronieyn, mentioned above. He was a
trustee of Rutgers College, and had several
charges, the last of which was the Reform-
ed churches of Schraalenburg and Hack-

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ensack. He married (first) Susanna, a
daughter of Maus Van Vranken ; (second)
Mrs. Elizabeth Pell.

Rev. James Romeyn, son of Rev. James
Van Campen and Susanna (Van Vranken)
Romeyn, was born at Blooming Grove,
New York, in 1/97, and died at New
Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1862. He was
graduated from Columbia College in 1816,
and from the Theological Seminary at New
Brunswick in 1819, and declined the title
of Doctor of Divinity which was offered by
Columbia College. He had charges in sev-
eral places, and was a trustee of Rutgers
College in 1842. He married Joanna Bay-
ard Rodgers, daughter of John Richardson
Bayard Rodgers, M. D., a leading physi-
cian and professor at Columbia College,
New York.

Rev. Theodore Bayard Romeyn, D. D.,
second son of the Rev. James and Joanna
Bayard (Rodgers) Romeyn, was born at
Nassau, New York, October 22, 1827, and
died in Hackensack, New Jersey, August
18, 1885. His early education was acquir-
ed in the schools of Catskill, Claverack (New
York), Hackensack, and various other
places, and he then became a student at Rut-
gers College, from which he was graduated
in the class of 1846, and had the distinction
of delivering the honorary oration. He
then matriculated at the Theological Sem-
inary at New Brunswick, New Jersey, from
which he was graduated in the class of
1849. The degree of Doctor of Divinity
was conferred upon him by Rutgers Col-
lege. Immediately after his graduation he
was called to preach at the Reformed
Church at Blawenburgh, Somerset county,
near Princeton, New Jersey, and remained
in charge there from 1849 to 1865, when he
was called to the First Reformed Church at
Hackensack, New Jersey, and ministered
there until his death, a period of twenty
years. His death occurred after an illness
of only a few hours, and was deeply de-
plored not only by his relatives, friends and
the members of his congregation, but by a

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much wider circle, for it was only after he
had passed away that the full extent of his
broad minded charity became known. He
had the broad religion of humanity, which
believes that many roads lead to God, and
that suffering should be relieved irrespec-
tive of religious creeds. In a memorial
volume published by the Consistory, we find
the following interesting passage : "It is also
worth a passing notice to observe the large
ministerial circle of which he was a mem-
ber by family ties. His maternal great-
grandfather was Rev. John Rodgers, forty-
four years pastor of the Wall Street Pre---
byterian Church, New York City. His pa-
ternal grandmother was a sister of JRev.
Nicholas Van Vranken. In these several
branches of relationship there are found
nearly or quite forty names of those who
have devoted themselves to the ministry of
the Gospel, and of this number three-quar-
ters belong to the Romeyn family." Dr.
Romeyn married Amelia Augusta Letson,
daughter of Johnson and Eliza (Shaddle)
Letson, of New Brunswick. New Jersey,
and they had children : Mary Letson, who
died in infancy; James A., at one time a
member of the law firm of Romeyn & Grif-
fin, in Jersey City, since 1894, editor of
"The Evening Record," published in Hack-
ensack. He married Flora M. Cochran, of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, by whom he had
two children; married (second) Susie B.
Conover, of Newark.

In the pulpit, Dr. Romeyn presented a
n-.re combination of the intellectual and the
emotional type of preaching. He delighted
in the discussion of the great fundamental
doctrines nf our faith, and when these
themes fully engaged him in public dis-
• -nurse, he rose to veritable heights of elo-
quence and power. His style was chaste,
vigorous and incisive. Exquisitely sensi-
tive to suffering, he entered into the sor-
rows of other men with keen and sympa-
thetic appreciation which, expressed in
words, often healed the wounds of the
stricken by their very gentleness and grace.

Men of learning sought his companionship
and found him a peer, yet lie had a heart
that reached out to the humblest and a
ready sympathy quick in response, lie wa-;
a man great and able, true and kind, and hi-,
life was as white as the sunlight.

RHOADS, Charles,

Man of Lofty Character.

"The path of the just is as a shining light
which shineth more and more unto the per-
fect day." The life of Charles Rhoads, of
Haddonfield, was remarkable in his ability
to combine noble Christian character and
devotion to duty, with eminent success as a
man of business in a great metropolis. His
religious nature began its development when
a very young boy and seventy years later
the last entry in his journal, written but a
few weeks prior to his death, shows truly
the consecrated spirit of the writer : "I have
been quite sick, and at times seriously so,
but am now able to be about the house and
am regaining my normal vigor gradually.
It has been a season of deep proving as to
my foundation on the only Rock, which will
stand in the day of account. There seemed at
one time but a narrow step between me and
death ; and fervent have been my petitions
that the work of sanctification might be
completed before the day of probation is
ended, and that an entrance might be grant-
ed me, an unworthy servant, through the
atoning blood of Jesus and the washing of
regeneration by his Holy Spirit, into the
mansions of rest, when the spirit should va-
cate the earthly tenement. Truly I can say
with the Psalmist, 'How excellent is thy
loving kindness, oh God ; therefore the chil-
dren of men put their trust under the shad-
ow of thy wings.' Some assurance was
felt in these times of trial that He would
receive me for his mercies' sake."

A birthright Friend, he never yielded to
unbelief or to any disloyalty to the faith of
Friends. In his sixtieth year he wrote : "I
believe that the Society of Friends as an or-

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ganization of Christian People has been a
blessing to thousands who have been
brought within its influence. I feel it to be
the highest privilege of my life to have had
my birth and education in a God fearing
family and among pious people of our Soci-
ety. The doctrines and principles maintain-
ed by Friends since their rise and in which
I was educated became early in life those <>f
my conviction and deliberate judgment."
He felt that he had received a call to the
ministry, and engaged in it in 1866. His
natural abilities, which were above the aver-
age, were sanctified to the Master's use and
that humility which marked his character
was deepened as the sense of his Saviour's
loving favor was heightened in his soul.
His memoranda, however, refer repeatedly
to the need he felt of spiritual food from
Christ and the cleansing of His atoning
blood.

His character as a business man was
marked by sterling integrity, coupled with
intelligence and experience, excelling many
of his profession, which caused him to be
sought by friends and neighbors for advice,
to whose application he ever gave a ready
response. Referring to his success in bus-
iness for several years previous he writes :
"What shall I render unto the Lord for all
His benefits? Grant, Oh Heavenly Father,
that these blessings may not prove a snare
to my soul and rob Thee of that devotion of
heart, soul, and time, which is Thy due."

Those who were in trouble found in him
a truly sympathizing friend. In 1866 he
wrote in his journal : "It has been a subject
of great concern with me in carrying on my
business lest I should lose that delicate sense
of responsibility to the Most High for all
my time and powers through the engrossing
character of my avocations. My religious
obligations are clearly paramount to all oth-
ers, and my mind has often been greatly
straitened to arrive at a just discrimination
of my duty in all respects. Truly, Oh !
Father, naught but thy wisdom can direct ;
no less a power than Thine can keep me

from temptation and failure to duty through
over anxiety about the care and support of
my family."

In 1872, after concluding to retire from
active participation in business, he wrote, in
regard to this step : "It is a relief of mind
to think of being more free from the close
attention which seems necessary to carry
on a successful one in a large city; and it
is my earnest desire and prayer that being
so favored by the great Author of all our
mercies, I may more assiduously devote the
remainder of my time to His service."
From that date until his last illness, thirty
years later. Mr. Rhoads devoted himself to
ministerial work, traveling and local, to
Friends' schools and to the Friends' Book
Store, and in combatting public forces for
evil, that of intemperance claiming his earn-
est efforts for the prohibition of the liquor
traffic and he was a potent factor in sup-
pressing the race track evil at Gloucester,
New Jersey.

Calmness and dignity, tempered by cheer-
fulness and affability, marked his inter-
course with others. Firm in his convictions
and fearless in their expression, yet with
tenderness he found a place in the hearts of
those with whom he came into contact. His
reverential attitude in times of worship was
most impressive. His ministry was clear,
sound, and edifying. In vocal supplication
his utterance was often in much brokenness
and self distrust. Richly endowed with
gifts, natural and Divine, he was a faithful
steward of his Lord's goods. Using the
talents bestowed, their gain was manifold.
Advancing years and impaired health form-
ed no excuse for neglect of the Master's
work. In 1877 he wrote: "Pay thy vows
unto the Most High. A sense of obligation
is present with me. Oh, that it may be at-
tended with his grace and strength to ful-
fil it. We may be sensible of our duty but
not devoted enough, not unselfish enough,
to carry it out. To love him and adore in
Spirit and in Truth we require to be trans-
formed by the renewings of the mind, an

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infusion of Christ's spirit. And shall we
not have this ? Yes. He has said his Fath-
er will give the Holy Spirit to them who
ask him for it." In Haddonfield, so long
his home, he was greatly beloved and rever-
ed for his beautiful life, gentle spirit, firm
advocacy of the right, and his zeal for the
cause of righteousness. From one not of
his faith, who yet sat under his teachings
as a girl, comes this tribute, "He was a
good man," and in all the wide circle of his
acquaintance no other verdict was ever rend-
ered concerning the pure life and Christian
character of Charles Rhoads.

He was of English forbears of Ripley.
Derbyshire, England, the ancestral home of
John Rhoads, the founder of the family in
America. He came to Pennsylvania with
his children in 1682, his wife, Elizabeth,
having died in England prior to that date.
He settled in Darby (Philadelphia), where
he lived until his death, August 27. 1701.
For several years he was a member of the
Governor's Council. His youngest child,
Joseph, upon attaining his majority became
the owner of a good farm of two hundred
and fifty acres in Marple township, Dela-
ware county, Pennsylvania, established a
tannery thereon and there resided until his
death in 1732, at the age of fifty-two years.
He married, July 2, 1702, Abigail, daughter
of Richard Bonsai, who survived him
eighteen years.

James Rhoads, of the third American
generation, son of Joseph and Abigail
Rhoads, was born and grew to manhood on
the Marple township homestead, of which
he became the owner at the age of twenty-
eight years. He improved the estate and
extended its area, there residing until his
death in 1798. He was of refined, gentle
nature, loving and generous, doing unto
others as he would be done by. As a bus-
iness man he was very successful. He mar-
ried, in 1745, Elizabeth, daughter of John
and Hannah Owens. She died in 1795.

The line of descent was through Joseph,
son of James Rhoads, a great-grandson of

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II-i;

John Rhoads, the founder, who married
Mary Ashbridge, and their son, Joseph,
who married Hannah Evans, of Philadel-
phia, and resided on the homestead farm in
Marple, and there his children were born.
Hannah Evans and a twin brother, James
E. Evans, were born in Marple. Joseph
and Hannah (Evans) Rhoads were devot-
ed members of the Society of Friends and
reared their children among the refining in-
fluences of a truly Christian home.

Charles Rhoads, son of Joseph and Han-
nah (Evans) Rhoads, was born in Marple
township, Chester county, Pennsylvania,
first month 21, 1828. died in Haddonfield,
Xe\v Jersey, first month 25, 1903. His
early home training prepared him for at-
tendance at Friends' School at Springfield,
nearby, and several years later he complet-
ed his studies at Westtown Friends' board-
ing school. He was an apt scholar, and re-
ceived from his instructors words of com-
mendation for his accuracy and progress.
At the age of sixteen years he left school,
and for a year or two engaged with his
father in labor on the home farm. He then
decided to become a conveyancer, and began
study in the law office of Andrew D. Cash,
quickly evincing a great aptitude for legal
study. At about the age of twenty years
he began business in Philadelphia, making
his home with his maternal uncle, Charles
Evans. He became well known in the bus-
iness world, was a thorough master of the
intricacies of real estate law and convey-
ancing, and especially gifted in the writing
of wills and legal papers. He was much
sought for as an advisor on his specialties,
such lawyers as John G. Johnson and other
eminent attorneys being numbered among
those who availed themselves of his skill.
He continued a very successful business
man until 1872, then withdrew and there-
after devoted himself largely to ministerial
and philanthropic work.

He fully realized his call to the ministry,
and according to Friends' usage was so rec-
ognized in 1866. As his gift in the ministry

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became more and more apparent by renew-
ed calls to service, the elders of the Month-
ly Meeting in ninth month, 1872, decided to
propose official recognition of his gift. In
connection with this he wrote: "It is now
nearly seven years since I first felt an obli-
gation laid upon me to speak in the way of
public ministry. During the intervening
spirit of probation my spirit at times has
almost fainted by the way, and I have been
ready to exclaim with the prophet, 'Oh Lord
God, behold I am a child, I cannot speak,
yet I feel bound to acknowledge the un-
bounded goodness of Israel's Shepherd.' It
is no small relief to my faltering spirit that
those Friends who are constituted the
judges of such affairs by our church dis-
cipline are so satisfied with the genuineness
of my commission to the high and holy call-
ing of a minister of the Gospel of Christ.
And now my hope is in him alone who
is able to guide and keep his servants. And
my prayer is unto the God of my life, that
I may be endued with the armor of faith
and humility, and not seek great things for
myself."

In 1877 he became greatly concerned
over the unsettled state of affairs of the
Si iciety in Kansas, and receiving the approv-
al of his Monthly and Quarterly Meeting
spent nine weeks in Kansas, visiting Friends
and holding meetings at some of the agen-
cies in Indian Territory. On this visit he
was accompanied by John Sharpless. In
1886, accompanied by his brother, loseph
Rhoads, he made a general visit to Friends
of North Carolina. Before and after this
period he was frequently engaged in min-
.isterial labors within the limits of his Year-
.ly Meeting, served on committees, was a true
friend of Westtown Friends' school, and a
member of the committee visiting it, was a
member of the book committee, the meet-
ing for sufferings, and was for many years
a member of the Xew Jersey State Tem-
perance Alliance, attending its meetings and
using the opportunity to explain the relig-
ious views of Friends. Among public of-

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fices he held that of secretary and treasurer
of the Apprentices' Library of Philadelphia,
was president of the Camden (New Jersey)
Home for Friendless Children, was a direc-
tor of the Haddonfield National Bank, and
was often chosen by his fellow citizens of
Haddonfield as counsellor and arbitrator of
borough affairs, they relying upon his
knowledge, spirit of justice, and benevo-
lence to safeguard them, free from entangle-
ment.

Charles Rhoads married, in 1856, Anne
H., daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Mor-
gan Nicholson, of Haddonfield, New Jer-
sey, and through that influence Haddonfield
became his home. Anne H. Rhoads died in
1864, the mother of four daughters — Mary,
died in 1867; Catherine, single; Eleanor,
married William T. Elkinton ; Anna, mar-
ried George G. Williams ; and a son, Samuel
N. Rhoads, now a resident of Haddonfield.

Mr. Rhoads married (second) in third
month, 1870, Beulah S. Morris, daughter
of Samuel Buckley and Hannah (Perot)
Morris, who survives him, a resident of
Haddonfield. Their only child, a daughter,
died aged nine months. Mrs. Rhoads was
always her husband's co-worker in spirit-
ual things, in philanthropy and charity. An
active charity was ever maintained toward
colored people, and personal visits were
made to their homes, schools, and religious
meetings.

On his seventy-fifth birthday Mr. Rhoads
was rapidly reduced by ill health, and on the
following January 25, 1903, his life ended
with the voice of praise to Him who had
redeemed him to Himself. "There is no
condemnation to those who are in Christ
Tesus." were his last words.

JACKSON, William,

Enterprising Citizen.

In the analyzation of the character of a
citizen of the type of the late William Jack-
son, of Belleville, New Jersey, for many
years a well known business man of New-

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ark, we find all that is required to make a
biographical sketch interesting to those who
have at heart the good name of the com-
munity honored by his residence, because it
is the honorable reputation of the man of
standing and affairs, more than any other
consideration, that gives character and sta-
bility to the body politic and makes the true
glory of a city or State revered at home 'and
respected abroad. In the broad light which
things of good repute ever invite, the name
and character of Mr. Jackson stand reveal-
ed and secured and, though with no ambi-
tion to distinguish himself in public position
his career has been signally honorable and
useful and it may be studied with profit by
the youth entering upon his life work. At
this point it seems eminently appropriate to
devote a few words to the ancestral history
of Mr. Jackson.

The Newark family of Jackson is of
English Puritan stock which settled in the
North of Ireland about 1641. The name
appears among the Anglo-Norman and Eng-
lish families of the time of Henry II, and is
found in the South of Ireland as early as
1 100. Those coming from Ireland to Amer-
ica are included under the title of Scotch-
Irish, a name of American origin designat-
ing the Protestant emigrants from Ireland,
mostly Presbyterians, who were driven to
this country by the stringent laws repress-
ing manufactures in Ireland, enacted after
the accession of William and Mary. In
Ireland the family was first in Londonder-
ry, in which county, near Giant's Cause-
way, there is a place called Jackson Hall ;
and a little later in Armagh. In the old
cathedral there are still memorials of the
family and their armorial bearings. The
Jacksons of Forkhill, County Armagh, had
for their motto: "Malo mori qnam foc-
dari," meaning "Better to die than to be a
traitor."

James Jackson, the first of the family
in America, came from Forkhill. Coun-
ty Armagh, early in the eighteenth cen-
tury, accompanied probably by his wife

and his brother, William Jackson. Family
tradition says that he paid seventy guineas
passage money. After a sojourn in New
York or vicinity, during which the name of
William Jackson appears in the records of
the First Presbyterian Church, they remov-
ed to Orange county, New York. The rec-
ords of the town of Goshen show that in
1721 they united with twenty-two others in
a grant of property to the town for a church,
school house, minister's house and ceme-
tery. James Jackson appears to have sign-
ed, at New Marlboro, Ulster county, New
York, the revolutionary pledge agreeing to
abide by the acts of the Continental Con-
gress, in 1777. There is still in the family
a Bible printed at Edinburgh with the in-
scription, "I, James Jackson, Senior, do
give this Bible to my grandson Peter Jack-
son as his real property, the 27th day of
September. 1779." He had six children,
and one of his grandsons was the Rev. Abel
Jackson, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Bloomfield, New Jersey.

James Jackson, eldest son of James Jack-
son, the immigrant, was born in 1718, and
died in 1795. He was one of the early set-
tlers of New Windsor, Orange county. New
York, Jackson avenue there being named in
his honor. He owned vessels (sloops) en-
gaged in Hudson river transportation, and
was given the courtesy title of Commodore.
Edgar's "History of Orange County" says,
"The Jacksons are captains of their own
sloops." He married three times.

Peter Jackson, youngest son of James and
Maria (Roome) Jackson, she being his sec-
ond wife, was born at Pompton Plains, New
Jersey, at the home of his grandfather.
Peter Roome, December 13, 1777, and died
in Newark, February 25, 1859. He lived
with his parents at New Windsor, New
York, until the death of his mother, when
he was taken to Pompton Plains, and there
educated by his aunts, Hester (Roome) Ac-
ton and Deborah (Roome) Spear, who had
no children of their own. For a time he
was employed in the store of General Wil-

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liam Col fax (who had been captain of
Washington's Life Guard, and later opened
a store for himself at a place in Pompton
Plains, still known as Jackson's Corner.
Shortly after his marriage he removed to
Acquackanonck, now Passaic, where he
built a store adjoining his own wharf, and
following the same line of business as his
father and half-brothers, he despatched his
vessels to Albany, New York, Virginia,
Georgia, and the West Indies, supplying the
country around as far as Newburgh and
Philadelphia, with lumber, southern pro-
ducts and general merchandise. He was
appointed postmaster of Acquackanonck by
President Madison in 1812, holding the of-
fice until 1838. In 1839 he removed with
his wife and youngest daughter and son to
Newark, where some of his children were
already settled, and there continued his bus-
iness until his sudden death on the train
between Newark and Jersey City.

Peter Jackson married, May 16, 1802,
Hester Van der Linde Brinckerhoff, who
celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of
her birth in Newark, January 30, 1882, at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hubbell ;
she retained her faculties until her death,
March 20, 1883. She was a daughter of
Adrain W. and Adriana (Van der Linde)
Brinckerhoff ; a granddaughter of Dominie
Benjamin Van der Linde, who was the first
minister of the Dutch Reformed Church to
he ordained in America ; and also a grand-
daughter of Colonel John and Elizabeth
(Schuyler) Brinckerhoff, the former, who
was of Fishkill, was a friend of Washing-
ton and his home, built in 1738, was one of
"Washington's Headquarters," the latter a
great-granddaughter of Philip Pieterse
Schuyler, the first Dutch governor of Al-
bany. Children : James, for years engaged
in business with his father, married Mary
Stagg; John P., lawyer, editor, business man
and statesman, married Elizabeth Hunting-
ton Wolcott, of distinguished ancestry;
Maria, died in infancy; Maria, married
Henry E. Van Winkle, a prominent lawyer

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of New York City ; Eliza Van der Linde,
married Amzi Armstrong, a well known
lawyer of Newark ; Julia Ann, married Al-
gernon S. Hubbell, a prominent Newark
lawyer ; Jane, married Rev. Samuel W.
Fisher, D. D., a Presbyterian minister, who
became president of Hamilton College, and
was afterwards connected with the Presby-
terian Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio ; Wil-
iam, whose name heads this sketch.

William Jackson, son of Peter and Hes-
ter Van der Linde (Brinckerhoff) Jackson,
was born at Acquackanonck, now Passaic,
in the large brick house recently occupied as
a hotel on the River road, near the bridge
leading to Hoboken via Carlstadt, Decem-
ber 15, 1817, and died in Belleville, New
Jersey, May 24, 1902. During his boyhood
the Jackson property extended over the hill
near the present City Hall, and on this prop-
erty there was erected a private schoolhouse,
in which a master, obtained by his father,
taught his brothers and sisters and the chil-
dren of such of the neighbors as he wished
to have attend. His later schooling was re-
ceived at Hackensack, at a prominent school
for boys. His early business training was
obtained as private secretary to his brother,
John P. Jackson, while the latter was pres-
ident of the Camden & Amboy Railroad
Company, this being the earliest railroad in
New Jersey. Later he engaged in the whole-
sale lumber business, and retired from ac-
tive business life in 1860. For a time he
was connected with the New Jersey Rail-
road and Transportation Company and he
was a director of the Firemen's Insurance
Company. He spent many years in Euro-
pean travel, and for the purpose of educat-
ing his children. He removed from Newark
to Belleville in 1860, when he retired from
business, and had his home there until his
death.

William Jackson married (first) Octo-
ber 24, 1849, Helen Wilbur, who died Jan-
uary 2, 1857, a daughter of Rodney and
Charlotte (Denman) Wilbur ; he married
(second) October 17, 1860, Elizabeth

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Brinckerhoff McNulty, of Norwich, Con-
necticut, who died August 23, 1901, daugh-
ter of Marvin and Mary Jeannette
(Brinckerhoff) McNulty. Children by the
first marriage: i. Mary Louise, died in in-
fancy. 2. Helen Wilbur, who married Wil-
liam Gifford, and died in Portland, Oregon,
May 4, 1881. 3. William Brinckerhoff,
who resides near Washington, D. C., married
(first) Emilie S., and had: Helen Wilbur,
who married Edward B. Harran, of Ches-
hire, England, and William B., Jr., living
with his father. He married (second) Alice
Richardson, and has : John Brinckerhoff.
Children by the second marriage : 4. Ed-
ward Woolsey, l>orn October 13, 1861 ; he
was educated at Geneva and Heidelberg,
and upon his return to America, lived in
Belleville, New Jersey. He was elected to
the New Jersey Assembly in 1890 and 1891 ;
was one of the original members of the
Essex County Park Commission in 1893 ;
was elected surrogate of Essex County in
1894, serving till 1899 ; an original member
of the Essex Troop ; member of the Essex
Club, of the New Jersey Historical Society,
and other well known organizations. He
married, October 15, 1902, Frances Lock-
wood Casebolt, daughter of George T. and
Mary F. (Lockwood) Casebolt. Their only
child, Edward Woolsey, Jr., was born Feb-
ruary 7, 1910, and lives in Newark. 5.
Percy, born May 21, 1863; was edu-
cated in Geneva and Heidelberg ; was
graduated from Yale University in the
class of 1885, and from Columbia Law
School in the class of 1887. He resided with
his parents in Belleville till their death, prac-
ticing law in New York and New Jersey
and taking an active part in local New Jer-
sey politics, he was twice Democratic candi-
date for the Assembly, and at one time
Democratic Congressional candidate for his
district. He was an early member of the
Essex Troop, and is a member of the Uni-
versity Club, and many other associations.
He has been a resident of New York City
since 1906. He married. November 4, 1910,

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Alice Hooker Day, a daughter of John Cal-
vin Day and Alice Beecher Hooker, of
Hartford, Connecticut.

Although always taking an active interest
in public matters, William Jackson never as-
pired to office, and never held public office
other than such as related to city or town.
In his municipal activities he was a hard
worker, and was always in the forefront of
movements tending to the betterment of his
neighborhood. He was one of the earliest
of those actively interested in the Newark
Public Library, and at various times was
director in companies in Newark. At the
time of his death he was a member of the
finance committee of the board of directors
of the Firemen's Insurance Company.

DOREMUS, Elias Osborn,

Financier, Public Official.

In the closing years of the seventeenth
century there came from Holland to what
is now Passaic, New Jersey, Cornelius Do-
remus, who became a large land owner, and
founded the prominent New Jersey family
of which Elias Osborn Doremus, a late res-
ident of East Orange, was representative in
the seventh American generation. An In-
dian deed of the Duck Purchase, dated May
16, 1703, describing a large tract of land
lying along the Passaic river, has the name
of Cornelius Doremus attached as a witness,
the conveyance being made by twelve In-
dians, probably of the Hackensack tribe of
Lenni-Lenapes. The name of the wife of
Cornelius Doremus is not known, but his
children were: Johannes, Holland, Thomas.
Cornelius, Hendrick, Joris.

Thomas Doremus, third son of Cornelius
Doremus, was born at Acquackanonck
(Passaic), New Jersey, and later became a
resident of Wesel, same State, where he
married Annekes Abrahmse Ackerman, a
native of Hackensack, New Jersey, and they
were the parents of six children: Cornel-
ius, Goline, Abraham, Peter, Johannes, An-
neke.

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Cornelius (2) Doremus, son of Thomas the son of David Baldwin, son of

Doremus, was a resident of Doremustown,
New Jersey, a man of influence in the com-
munity. He married Antje Young, who
bore him ten children, among whom were:
Hendricus. Thomas, Peter, Maritji, Johan-
nes, Jannetji, Susannah, Alitta.

Peter Doremus, son of Cornelius (2)
Doremus, was born at Slotterdam, New Jer-
sey, in 1744, and later resided near Beaver-
town, same State, ranking among the repre-
sentative citizens of that section. He mar-
ried Polly Dey, and their children were:
Jacob, Richard, Cornelius, Peter, and two
daughters, one of whom became the wife of
Henry Perry, and the other the wife of J.
Speer.

Cornelius (3) Doremus, son of Peter
Doremus, was born in the vicinity of Beav-
ertown, New Jersey, in 1/87. He lived a
life of usefulness, and was an honored and
esteemed citizen. He married Jane DeHart,
who bore him five children : Peter Cornel-
ius ; John Cornelius ; Sarah, became the wife
of John R. Van Duyne, of Montville, New
Jersey, and their only surviving child was
Harrison Van Duyne, one of the leading
citizens of Newark, New Jersey ; Mary, be-
came the wife of Cornelius Cook, both now
deceased ; Lydia, became the wife of Peter
Van Houten, and after his death became the
wife of Elias Littell, of Montclair, New
Jersey, both now deceased.

Peter Cornelius Doremus, son of Cornel-
ius (3) Doremus, was born April 9, 1807,
died June 30, 1869. He was reared and ed-
ucated in his native town, and in the year
1829 removed to Orange, New Jersey, and
there spent the remainder of his days, re-
spected by all with whom he was brought
in contact, whether in business or social life.
He married Julia A. Osborn, daughter of
John H. Osborn, born in Bloomfield, New
Jersey, in 1770, and his wife, Rhoda
(Baldwin) Osborn, who was a daugh-
ter of Zophar Baldwin, who served with
the Essex County Militia in the Rev-
olutionary War. Zophar Baldwin was

Benjamin Baldwin, son of Joseph Baldwin,
son of John Baldwin, a signer of the Funda-
mental Agreement. Children of Mr. and
Mrs. Doremus: Mary Cook, who became
the wife of Charles Clark: Julia A., who
became the wife of David J. Rogers; Elias
Osborn, of whom further.

Elias Osborn Doremus, son of Peter Cor-
nelius Doremus, was born in Orange, New
Jersey, January 17, 1831, died at his res-
idence in East Orange, May 13, 1907. He
was educated in the public schools of
Orange, and after completing his studies
began an apprenticeship with his father,
who was one of the leading builders of his
day. He succeeded to his father's business,
having as his partner his brother-in-law, Al-
fred Jones, and they continued building op-
erations until 1874, under the name of Jones
& Doremus. theirs being the largest building
firm in all the Oranges. From 1874 until
his death, Mr. Doremus was intimately con-
nected with insurance and banking corpora-
tions, and he was also largely interested in
the development of that part of Orange now
East Orange, and with the Baldwins platted
an important addition of forty acres. In
1876 he was elected a director of the Amer-
ican Insurance Company of Newark, in
1881 he became its vice-president, and in
1899 was elected president to succeed Fred-
erick H. Harris, which office he held until
his death, but in 1905 ill health compelled
him to relinquish the greater portion of the
active burden of executive manager. He
was a director of the Orange National Bank
for several years, but withdrew from that
directorate several years prior to his death.
He was for many years a member of the
board of managers of the Orange Savings
Bank, never relinquishing his managerial in-
terest in that institution. He was also at
different times a director of the Newark
City National Bank, the National Newark
Banking Company, and the United States
Industrial Insurance Company. He was a
member of the Newark Board of Trade,

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and a member of the original board of man-
agers of Rosedale Cemetery, serving for
many years as president of this board.

Able and efficient as a business man, Mr.
Doremus gave to the public as legislator and
freeholder considerable of his valuable time,
city, county and State benefitting thereby.
He was elected freeholder in 1868, and
through successive re-elections held that of-
fice for seventeen years, seven of them as
president of the board. In 1872 he was the
choice of the Republican party as represen-
tative to the State legislature and in 1873
was re-elected, his district being the old sec-
ond. In the legislature he tendered impor-
tant service as chairman of the committee
on ways and means, chairman of the com-
mittee on education, and through member-
ship of other important committees of the
house. Two notable measures that he
strongly championed became laws most val-
uable in their results : The compulsory ed-
ucation and the general railway laws.

Through his Colonial and Revolutionary
ancestors he was eligible to many societies,
and held membership in the New England
Society of Orange, Sons of the American
Revolution (of which he was one of the
managers) and the New Jersey Historical
Society. He was a member of the Masonic
order for fifty-five years, receiving his
Master Mason's degree in Union Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, in 1852. Later
he was a charter member of Corinthian
Lodge ; he was a companion of Orange
Chapter. Royal Arch Masons, and a Sir
Knight of Damascus Commandery, Knights
Templar, of Newark. He was an active and
consistent member of the Presbyterian
church, affiliating with Brick Church, East
Orange. This brief record of the impor-
tant activities of his life show Mr. Dore-
mus to have been a man possessing the full
confidence of his fellow-men. This was
shown in his elevation to important public
and private trusts, and by the close com-
munion he held with influential men
throughout the active years of his life. His

executive ability was of a high order, his
personal character above reproach.

Mr. Doremus married, in 1855, Harriet
Peck, daughter of William Peck, and de-
scendant of Joseph Peck, a signer of the
Fundamental Agreement in N'ew Haven,
Connecticut, in i'>3<). Children: Emily,
died at the age of eight years; Edwin 1'at-
erson. who after a brilliant and successful
but brief business career, died May 24, 1895,
aged twenty-seven years; Frederick Ilalsey,
a merchant and importer of New York City;
Fannie, became the wife of George F. lias-
sett, who died May 24, 1891.

CRANE, John Williams,

Jurist, Man of Affairs.

John Williams Crane, son of Moses Mil-
ler and Phoebe Stiles Williams Crane, \va<-
born at the old homestead that had been the
birthplace of the Crane family for four
generations, on December 23rd. 1834, and
passed away at the same place, now known
as No. 556 Morris avenue, Elizabeth, New
Jersey, on December 3ist, 1913. He was
a flirect descendant of Stephen Crane, one
of the original Elizabethtown Associates
who settled at that place in 1664.

He obtained his early education under
Mr. Frederick W. Foote, at that time prin-
cipal of the Old Noith End school, later
attending Mr. James C. Nuttman's school
in Elizabeth. He married, at Elizabeth,
New Jersey, on December 21 st, 1859, Anna
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Nancy
Lyon Wilson. The issue of this marriage
was Moses Miller, born January I5th, 1864.
and Henry Wilson, born May 7th, 1874.

The record of business successes that sur-
vives him is one that speaks truthfully of
able powers, upright endeavor and industry,
a reputation gained through more than fifty
years connection with extensive real estate
and insurance operations. To an active and
useful business career he added long and
honorable public service, and during his ma-
ture years was constantly and closely iden-

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tified with the Democratic organization in
his county, serving as a member of the
county committee for thirty-eight years. His
intimates knew him as a loyal and true
gentleman, his business associates as a man
of honor and responsibility, and Judge
Crane, as he was universally known, from
his judicial services in the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, ever stood in a position of re-
gard and respect ; his death severed the
many and closely knit ties that bound him to
his community, but all his works were good,
and so likewise must be his reward.

In November, 1862, he was appointed
clerk in the office of the county surrogate,
the incumbent of the office at that time be-
ing Robert S. Green, subsequently Gover-
nor of New Jersey. In the year that he
accepted his position under Mr. Green, he
was elected to membership in the Union
County Board of Freeholders, filling his po-
sition on that board for three terms. Upon
retiring from the clerkship in the surro-
gate's office, he entered the business to
which he devoted his lifetime, forming a
partnership in the real estate and insur-
ance business with A. Denman Mulford,
under the firm name of Mulford & Crane.
Mr. Mulford changing his residence to a
western state, Mr. Crane and former sheriff
Frederick F. Glasby entered into a similar
association, the latter partnership being dis-
solved in 1879. From this date until his
death, Mr. Crane was engaged independent-
ly in operations in real estate and insurance,
and rose to leadership in these lines, being a
director and for a number of years vice-pres-
ident of the National Fire and Marine In-
surance Company of Elizabeth. His knowl-
edge and ability were frequently called into
service for expert testimony in relation to
real estate matters. His business interests
were extensive, his management showing
administrative faculties of a high order, and
he used his talents for the benefit of his
clients with general satisfaction. He serv-
ed many times on commissions whose duties

were the determination of property values,
and in May, 1886, he was appointed by Jus-
tice Van Syckle one of the commissioners of
adjustment of the arrears of taxes and as-
sessments of the city of Elizabeth. Mr.
Crane's associates on this commission were
ex-Governor George C. Ludlow and F. L.
Heidritter. The work was successfully ac-
complished and the result not only proved
of great material benefit to the City but also
gained high public endorsement.

Judge Crane was a member of the congre-
gation of the First Presbyterian Church of
Elizabeth, where his ancestors had worship-
ped for the past two and a half centuries.
He was a member of the Underwriters As-
sociation of Elizabeth, a director in the New
Jersey Agricultural Society from the time
of its organization, and for about twenty
years was a director of the old First Nation-
al Bank of Elizabeth. He possessed a wide
acquaintance in his county and northern
New Jersey, was everywhere gladly receiv-
ed and enjoyed the confidence and regard of
all who knew him.

He was a lifelong Democrat and promi-
nently identified with that party. In 1894
he was honored by an appointment by Gov-
ernor George T. Werts to the position of
Associate Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas for a five year term, occupying the
bench with Judge Thomas F. McCormick
and Judge Louis S. Heyer, but two years of
his term had expired when associate judge-
ships were abolished by legislative enact-
ment ; his appointment by the Governor met
with widespread approval that continued
throughout his brief occupancy of the posi-
tion. Mention has previously been made of
the intimate connection of Judge Crane with
Democratic councils in Union county. Broad
in his views and generous in his politics, as
in all things respecting the privileges and
rights of his fellows, he nevertheless upheld
his party with unchanging fealty, supporting
his sincere faith in its principles at every
turn. At an executive session of the Union

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County Democratic Committee resolutions
of regret and condolence were adopted,
which read as follows : —

Honorable J. Williams Crane, a member of this
committee, died at his home in Union township,
on the thirty-first day of December, Nineteen
Hundred and Thirteen. Judge Crane, as he was
familiarly called, was a veteran member of this
committee, serving continuously from 1875 up
to the time of his death, his services covering
a period of thirty-eight years, and during thirty-
three years of that period, from 1878 to 1912,
he served the committee in the capacity of treas-
urer.

During all these years he was faithful in his
attendance at committee meetings, and discharged
his duties both as member and officer in a man-
ner which won for him the confidence and re-
spect of his colleagues. He was indeed a familiar
figure at its gatherings, as he was on every oc-
casion which called the leaders of his party to-
gether in conference and convention.

Desiring to record his services and the great
loss which individually and collectively we have
sustained, the members of the Union County
Democratic Committee, in regular meeting as-
sembled,

Resolved, That in the death of the Honorable
J. Williams Crane, we suffer an irreparable loss,
leaving a void in our ranks which no one else can
fill. As a citizen. Democrat, official and jurist,
his conduct was above reproach ; in fact, it was
ideal, and we extend to his family our heartfelt
sympathy at his loss ; and be it further

Resolved, That this modest tribute of our
esteem be spread in full on the records of the
organization and an engrossed copy thereof be
prepared and presented to the family of our de-
parted friend and colleague.

WRIGHT, Major Edward Henry,

Civil War Veteran, Ideal Citizen.

Among the men of exceptional devotion
to duty in the city of Newark, New Jersey,
of inflexible determination to do that which
was right and just, despite criticism, the
name of Edward Henry Wright took a fore-
most place. Intense patriotism was one of
the fine qualities he inherited from a dis-
tinguished ancestry, and when the occasion
3 rose, he was among the first to give his
services for his beloved country. There is

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both propriety and satisfaction in giving a
review of the life of a man who has really
achieved, and when the achievement is of so
varied a character and of so wide spread an
influence, as is the case here, it almost be-
comes a matter of necessity that the review
should be written in order to serve as an ex-
ample to future generations.

Edward Henry Wright was born in New-
ark, New Jersey, April 5, 1824, and died
September 17, 1913. After preparatory
training at St. Paul's School, College Point,
Long Island, New York, he matriculated at
Princeton College, New Jersey, and was
graduated from that institution with the de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of
1844, the degree of Master of Arts being
conferred upon him in 1847. He commenc-
ed reading law under the preceptorship of
Alexander Hamilton, of New York, pursu-
ed it with Archer Gifford, of Newark, then
in the Law Department of Harvard Univer-
sity, and was admitted to the bar of New
Jersey in 1847. 1° 1848 and 1849 he travel-
ed and studied in Europe, thus obtaining a
knowledge of European affairs which was
of great benefit in his subsequent career.
Upon, his return to the United States, Pres-
ident Tyler appointed him secretary of the
United States Legation at St. Petersburg,
Russia, in May, 1849, and he retained this
office, representing his native country with
dignity, until the close of the administration
of President Tyler. His support of the
Democratic party extended over a period of
half a century.

In 1861 he was one of the first to volun-
teer his services in the Union army, and in
May of that year was appointed major of
the Sixth United States Cavalry, and aide-
de-camp on the staff of Lieutenant-General
Winfield Scott, with the rank of colonel,
and held the same rank on the staff of Gen-
eral George B. McClellan, upon the retire-
ment of General Scott. On the Peninsula
of Virginia and during the Maryland cam-
paign, Major Wright rendered such signal
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lant and meritorious conduct. At the close
of the Maryland campaign he was ordered
to report with his commander at Trenton,
New Jersey, after which lie returned to the
duties of civil life. He became interested
in a variety of enterprises, and held official
position in a number of them, as follows :
Director of the Mutual Benefit Life Insur-
ance Company, the Firemen's Insurance
Company and the Newark Gas Company;
member of the board of trustees of the Epis-
copal Fund of the Division of Newark ;
president of the board of managers of the
New Jersey Home for Disabled Soldiers,
being the active executive officer of the
board for a quarter of a century. He was
companion in the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States ; mem-
ber of Marcus L. Ward Post, No. 88, Grand
Army of the Republic, in which he held
office as commander and past commander ;
member of the Essex Club of Newark, and
served as vice-president several terms : and
affiliated with the Union Club of New York
City. He was a member of the Episcopal
church, and for a period of fifty-four years
a devout communicant of the parish of the
House of Prayer of Newark, and active in
its support.

Major Wright married, in Ascension
Church, New York City, October 9, 1860,
Dorothe Eliza Mason, who was born at the
home of Thaddeus Phelps, No. 23 Park
Place, New York City, at that time one of
the finest residential sections. She was a
daughter of Stevens Thomson and Julia
(Phelps) Mason, the former the first gov-
ernor of the State of Michigan, and found-
er of the University of Michigan. Major
and Mrs. Wright had children : Minerva,
married Rowland Parry Keasby : William
Mason, at one time major of the Eighth In-
fantry, and stationed at Monterey, Califor-
nia, married Marjorie Jerauld ; Emily Vir-
ginia ; Julia Phelps : Katherine Maria ; Dora
Mason, married Chauncey G. Parker ; Edith
Howard : Amabel Phelps ; Edward Henry,
Jr., married Caroline Lesher Firth.

The time and means of Major Wright
were ever freely given to the interests of the
public, and he ranked among the best citi-
zens. Liberal in his views without being
radical, his ideas in many instances were in
advance of his time, but later events have
proven the wisdom which underlay them.
Thoroughness, devotion to work and an un-
shakable integrity furnished the keynotes to
his business character, the other side of
which showed the broad-minded Christian
gentleman, with charity and sympathy for
all classes, creeds and conditions.

WRIGHT, William,

Prominent Manufacturer, Business Man.

It has been universally conceded that the
busiest men are those who always have time
to spare in order to assume additional du-
ties, and apparently they are able to accom-
plish wonders. The very simple principle
lying at the root of this state of affairs is
systematic and methodical work. Every
moment of time is given its full valuation,
and every phase of life is appreciated in
proportion to the useful work which has
been faithfully performed. A man who
was a fine exponent of this admirable class
of men was William Wright, manufacturer,
financier and statesman, whose efforts in be-
half of the welfare and improvement of
the community were unremitting, and who
was successful in the accomplishment of
projects which a less energetic and enter-
prising man would have lost courage in es-
tablishing.

William Wright was born in Clarkstown,
Rockland county, New York, November 13,
1794, and died in Newark, New Jersey, No-
vember i, 1866. He was a son of Dr. Wil-
liam Wright, who was graduated from Yale
College in the class of 1/74. and a lineal de-
scendant of P.enjamin Wright, who emigrat-
ed from England to Virginia in 1645, re-
moved to Guilford, Connecticut, five years
later, and not long afterward to a farm at
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Connecticut, where the family has lived for
a number of generations. He was the recip-
ient of a thorough college preparatory edu-
cation in Poughkeepsie, New York, but was
obliged to forego entering college by reason
of the death of his father in 1808, this ne-
cessitating his taking a business position at
once. He found this in Bridgeport, Con-
necticut, where he became an apprentice in
the harness manufacturing business of An-
son G. Phelps, and while there volunteered
against the British in the defense of Ston-
ington. Some years later, in association
with William Peet and Sheldon Smith, he
was one of the organizers of the firm of
Peet, Smith & Company, manufacturers of
saddlery and harness, and so successful did
this enterprise prove, that a branch house
was established in Charleston, South Caro-
lina.

Newark, to which city Mr. Wright mov-
ed in 1821, was the next scene of his ac-
tivity, and he became a partner in the firm
of Smith & Wright, later members of the
firm being Messrs. Hanford Smith, Edwin
Van Antwerp and William S. Faitoute. This
soon became the most noted establishment
of its kind in the city, and was the leader in
the manufacture of leather goods in the
State, and most probably in the United
States, of that period. The factory was lo-
cated at the southeast corner of Broad and
Fair streets, and Mr. Wright was the lead-
ing spirit in its affairs until his retirement
when he was about sixty years of age. A
number of other important business enter-
prises of the city had the benefit of his co-
operation, among them being the Newark
Mechanics' Bank, the Mechanics' Insurance
Company and the Newark- Savings Institu-
tion, in all of which he held official position,
being president of the last named from its
organization until his death. The Morris
& Essex railroad had the benefit of his ex-
ecutive ability from the time of its organi-
zation until death called him away. The
manifold demands made upon the time of
Mr. Wright by his weighty business re-

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sponsibilities did not prevent him from fol-
lowing public affairs with tin- closest atten-
tion, greatly to the benefit of tin- communi-
ty in which he resided, and the country at
large. His earlier political affiliation was
with the Whig party, and later his princi-
ples were those of the Democratic party. 1 le
was honored by election a- mayor of New-
ark in 1840, as a representative of the Whig
party, and filled this office with distinguish-
ed ability for a period of three years. In
1842, while still in office as mayor, he was
nominated, and later elected, to Congress,
defeating William B. Kinney, later minister
to Italy. Air. Wright was re-elected in 1844,
and served in the House of Representatives
from December, 1843, until March, 1847,
and was considered one of the ablest men of
these sessions. In 1847 he was elected for
the office of governor of the State of New
Jersey, but was defeated. Henry Clay al-
ways received his active support as a pres-
idential candidate, and he was a delegate
from New Jersey to the national convention
of 1848. During the administration of
President Fillmore, Mr. Wright was
among those who abandoned the Whig
party, deeming the principles supported by
the Democratic party best suited to the
needs and development of the country, and
from that time forward, the Democratic
party had no more ardent advocate than he.
In the campaign of 1852 he was an active
worker in the interests of the Democratic
nominees and his reputation and influence
were of great advantage to the party in
many directions. He was elected to the
Senate of the United States by this party,
his term extending from March 3, 1853, to
March 3, 1859, was succeeded by a Repub-
lican, whom he succeeded in 1863, and again
was chosen to serve a full term. During his
first term in this honorable body he was
chosen chairman of the committee on man-
ufactures, and during his second term he
was a member of the committees on manu-
factures, public lands and revolutionary
claims. His death occurred while he was

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serving his second term as a United States
Senator. For many years he was a member
of the Episcopal Church, a liberal supporter
of this institution, and a prominent commu-
nicant of the Newark House of Prayer.

Mr. Wright married, September 2, 1819,
Minerva, a daughter of William and Jemi-
ma (Tomlinson) Darrow, and they had chil-
dren : Frederick William, born May 21,
1820; Catherine Maria, born March 23,
1822; Edward Henry, a sketch of whom
also appears in this work. Mr. Wright was
a man of broad and liberal ideas, and his
stern integrity was recognized in the busi-
ness world. He combined an extraordinary
genius for administration with indomitable
perseverance, and his self-reliance never
failed him. Genial, yet dignified, in his man-
ner, he won the respect of those with whom
he had relations in the business, social and
political world, and the affection of a large
circle of friends. In his home life he was
a loving and devoted husband and father.

PLUM, Stephen Haines,

Manufacturer, Man of Affairs.

The late Stephen H. Plum, who through-
out his active and honored life was a prom-
inent and influential citizen of Newark,
trusted and esteemed for his excellent char-
acteristics, winning and retaining the confi-
dence of all with whom he was brought in
contact, whether in business, religious or
social life, was a worthy representative of
a family of prominence, whose names are
prominently connected and associated with
the States of Connecticut and New Jersey,
especially the latter, from its early history
down to the present time, a family conspic-
uous for its men of sterling probity and in-
tegrity, active and public-spirited, progres-
sive and enterprising. The name has been
variously spelled during the preceding gen-
erations, Plume, Plumb, Plumbe being some
of the forms. The coat-of-arms of the
Plume family are as follows : Ermine, a

blend vair or and gules cottised vert. Crest
(English) : Out of a ducal coronet or, a
plume of ostrich feathers argent. The
Plumbs are an ancient Norman family, and
are traced back to Normandy, A. D., 1180,
and in England to A. D., 1240. In Ameri-
ca the Plumes and Plums are among the old-
est New England Colonial families.

John Plume, progenitor of the branch of
the family herein recorded, a son of Robert
and Grace (Crackbone) Plume, was born in
Spaynes Hall, at Great Yeldham, Essex,
England, from which country he removed
to the New World, locating in Wethersfield,
Connecticut, in 1635. and there became a
prominent and influential citizen. His wife
Dorothy bore him eight children, among
whom was Samuel. His death occurred in
Branford, Connecticut, in 1648. Samuel
Plum, son of John and Dorothy Plume, was
born in England, January 4, 1625-26, died
in Newark, New Jersey, January 22, 1703.
He was also a resident of Wethersfield and
Branford, Connecticut, removing to Newark
in 1668. He married, name of wife un-
known, and among his children was John
Plum, born in Branford, Connecticut, Oc-
tober 28, 1657, died in Newark, New Jer-
sey, July 12, 1710. He accompanied his
father and the family there in 1668, and
there spent the remainder of his days. He
married Hannah Crane, who bore him five
children, among whom was John Plume,
born in Newark. New Jersey, about 1696,
died there, after 1785. His entire life was
spent in that city, and he appears to have
been one of the few who wrote his surname
Plume. He married (first) Joanna Crane,
and (second) Mary - — , and among the
children of his first wife was John Plum,
born in Newark, New Jersey, about 1743,
died there, about January, 1771. He mar-
ried Susan Crane, who bore him four chil-
dren, among whom was Matthias Plum,
born in Newark, New Jersey, 1768. died
there, in 1852, having spent his entire life in
his native city. He married Phebe Wood-

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ruff, who bore him five children, among
whom was Stephen Haines, of whom fur-
ther.

Stephen Haines Plum, born in Newark,
New Jersey, January 7, 1800, died there,
April n, 1885, having long passed the al-
lotted span of three score years and ten.
After completing his studies in the common
schools of his native city, he entered upon
an apprenticeship to learn the trade of shoe-
making, remaining until he thoroughly mas-
tered the trade in all its details, and then es-
tablished a business in that line on his own
account in New York City, which was a suc-
cess from the beginning, he later extend-
ing his operations throughout the southern
and western States, which also proved a
profitable enterprise. His goods were man-
ufactured in the city of Newark, and he was
among the first manufacturers of that city to
gain for it its well-deserved reputation as a
manufacturing center. About the year 1850
he gradually withdrew from business of a
mercantile and manufacturing nature and
invested his capital in other directions, be-
coming actively interested in the Newark
Gas Light Company, he having been a mem-
ber of the board of directors for a number
of years. He was also a stockholder and
director in the New Jersey Fire Insurance
Company, the Mechanics' Fire Insurance
Company and the St. Mark's Fire Insur-
ance Company of New York. He was a
man of great force of character, of unim-
peachable integrity, and to a natural dignity
of manner added a geniality that won him
numerous friends. He was charitable and
generous, with a ready sympathy for those
in affliction or need, and exerted a powerful
influence for good in his community. A
keynote to his success in his numerous ac-
tivities was his executive force and mastery
of detail in whatever engaged his attention.

Mr. Plum married Margaret Monteith
Todd, born in Belvidere, New Jersey, died
in Newark, New Jersey, January 6, 1883.
She was a daughter of Michael and Martha
(Ramsden) Todd, the former of whom em-

igrated from Glasgow, Scotland, to America
in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Plum, all born in
NYwark: i. Charlotte, born 1835; became
the wife of Theodore B. Coe. 2. Matthias,
born November 24, 1839 ; a prominent bus-
iness man of Newark, engaged in the sale of
books and stationery, also in printing and
book binding, and has an extensive paper
warehouse; married Josephine A. Terhune ;
children: Anne Howard, became the wife
of George W. Downs ; Matthias, married
Mary Campbell Gaddis ; Stephen Haines,
married Madge Wilder: William Terhune,
married Bertha Krueger. 3. Stephen
Haines, (q. v.).

PLUM, Stephen Haines, Jr.,

Man of Affairs, Philanthropist.

Stephen Haines Plum, Jr., son of Stephen
Haines Plum (q. v. ), was born in Newark,
New Jersey, November 12, 1842, and died
there, May 30, 1906. He attended the pri-
vate school conducted by Mr. Hedges, and
this knowledge was supplemented by a
course in the high schools of Newark, which
thoroughly prepared him for an active bus-
iness career. He obtained his first insight
of business by becoming a clerk in a drug
establishment, and his next employment was
in the City Bank of Newark, and at the ex-
piration of eighteen months' service there,
he accepted a position in the National Bank
of the Republic, New York City, where his
ability and faithfulness was rewarded by
promotion from time to time. His connec-
tion with this institution continued for al-
most a quarter of a century, and for about
eighteen years of that period he served in
the capacity of paying teller. He resigned
his position in the bank in order to devote
his entire time and attention to his individ-
ual property interests, which came to him
upon the death of his father in 1885, he
having left an extensive estate. He spent
eighteen months abroad visiting England,
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.Algeria and other foreign countries, thus
adding considerably to his store of knowl-
edge and also gaining for him a much-need-
ed rest.

Mr. Plum was a philanthropist in the
highest sense of the word, contributing lib-
erally of his means to various charities, al-
though in such an unostentatious and quiet
manner that few except those directly bene-
fitted were aware of the donor, this being
true charity and the essence of true refine-
ment of character. One of his most noble
acts of charity was the building of the
Eighth Avenue Day Nursery in Newark, in
honor of his mother, this institution being
a great boon to mothers who are compelled
to leave their children in order to make a
living for them. In connection with the late
Mr. Horace Ailing, he was an active factor
in securing the subscriptions for the erection
of the building for the Children's Aid and
Prevention of Cruelty to Children Society in
Newark, in which worthy undertaking he
took a keen interest, contributing liberally
toward its support and maintenance, and
which he served in the capacity of presi-
dent, filling that position at the time of his
decease and for many years prior to that
event. Mr. Plum joined the First Baptist
Peddie Memorial Church, in 1858, at the age
of sixteen years, and was thereafter an ac-
tive and consistent member, serving for
nineteen years as treasurer, for several
years as president of its Board of Trustees,
and an active worker in the missionary
movement. He was also for many years a
teacher in its Sunday school, using there his
great influence and power over many young
men, his daily life serving as an example
for others to follow. In national and State
affairs, .Mr. Plum was in favor of the can-
didates of the Republican party, but in local
affairs he cast his vote for the man who in
his opinion was best qualified for office, ir-
respective of party affiliation. He was a
man whom to know was to honor, one of the
men whose careers were of signal useful-
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the best advantage, thus gaining what is far
better than wealth or power, an honored and
untarnished name.

Mr. Plum married, October 25, 1865,
Mary, daughter of David C. and Lydia
(Dodd) Runyon, of Newark, New Jersey.
Children: I. Margaret Monteith, became
the wife of Henry G. Atha, treasurer of the
Cast Steel Works of New Jersey : children :
Margaret Monteith, born July 17, 1898, and
Sarah, born March 8, 1901. 2. Martha J.
3. Stephen Haines (3), born January 18,
1877, in Newark ; educated in Newark
Academy and Princeton College, graduating
from the latter in the class of 1901 : engaged
in the real estate business in Newark ; a Re-
publican in politics, member of the Peddie
Memorial Church, in which he serves as
trustee, and interested in all the good work
in which his father took such a prominent
part : married Blanche Devereux ; children :
Stephen Haines (4), born October 30, 1906,
and Lucretia Mary, born December 30,
1907.

HUSTON, Judge Henry,

Prominent Lawyer and Jurist.

The comment has often been truthfully
made that deserved appreciation of really
great men is too frequently withheld until
death awakens society, or a State, to a sense
of its loss. This is less true of the late
Judge Henry Huston, of Newton, New Jer-
sey, than of most distinguished personages.
There was never a period in his notable
career when his mental equipment was not
recognized by friend and foe alike as of a
superior order. None ever failed to credit
him with high moral purpose, true nobility
of character, sterling sense of justice, and
firm adherence to the loftiest political, social
and professional ideals. Nor did he disap-
point any intelligent opinion of his excep-
tional qualities of head and heart, and this
universal estimate of his character became
more pronounced after his sudden passing
away. Sentiment assumed free and open

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expression. He was deliberately reweighed
in all his attributes of character, in all his ac-
complishments, in all his relations to public
and civic affairs, and what had been the
common verdict was only rendered the more
emphatic. Honors, no matter how profuse,
were all too insufficient for the distinguish-
ed dead. Mourning, however sincere and
general, was but a feeble expression of the
deep seated sense of bereavement. Through
critical, yet most kind analysis, through
sympathetic eulogium, and through touching
dirge, was assigned his deservedly exalted
niche in the hall of fame, there to stand as
an encouragement to noble endeavor and as
an inspiration to ambitious youths.

The Huston family in this country is of
Scotch-Irish origin, and was founded here
by John Huston, a linen weaver of the
North of Ireland, who came to America
about one hundred and fifty years ago and
made his home near the Town of Newton,
New Jersey. His son. Alexander Huston,
was a farmer by occupation, prospered ex-
ceedingly, and was a man of influence in the
section, filling the office of assessor of the
Township of Newton, for about thirty-five
years. One of his sons, John Huston, was
also a successful farmer in this township.

James B. Huston, son of this second John
Huston, was born in 1818, and died at La-
fayette, Sussex county. New Jersey, March
18, 1894. During almost all the active years
of his life he held positions of trust. He
served as a lay judge of the Sussex Court
of Common Pleas for a period of ten years ;
was for many years a member of the Board
of Chosen Freeholders of the county ; dur-
ing a quarter of a century he was a member
of the board of directors of the Sussex
National Bank of Newton ; and was engag-
ed in the milling and mercantile business at
Lafayette approximately forty years. He
married Martha Kays, a daughter of
Thomas Kays, and a granddaughter of John
Kays, a Revolutionary soldier, who married
a daughter of Benjamin Hull, an early set-
tler of Sussex count}', who had thirteen chil-

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dren, one hundred grandchildren, and
descendants may be found in almost every
State in the Union. Martha (Kay-) Hus-
ton was a descendant of Henry Male, a
German, who came to America about 1750,
and in Sussex county built the first gri^t
mill east of the Blue Ridge. Among the
children of Mr. Huston were: John, now
living in Portland. Maine: Henry, the sub-
ject of this sketch ; and Mrs. Mary Clay, of
Newark.

Judge Henry Huston was born at La-
fayette, Sussex county, New Jersey, No-
vember 26, 1853, and died at his home on
Elm street. Newton, April 17, 1915, after
an illness of only a few hours' duration. His
elementary education was acquired in his
native town at the private school conducted
by Professor E. A. Stiles, of the Mount
Retirement Seminary, and he was prepared
for entrance to college at the Blair Presby-
terian Academy. There he pursued his
studies far enough to enable him to enter
Princeton College in the sophomore class
and he was graduated from this institution
with honors in the class of 1874. For some
time he had already decided to follow the
legal profession, and he commenced his
preparation toward this end in the office of
his uncle, Thomas Kays, an eminent lawyer
of Newton, was admitted to the bar of New
Jersey as an attorney in 1877. and as a coun-
selor in 1880. He at once commenced the
active practice of his profession, and in 1884
became associated with his uncle in a part-
nership which lasted until 1891, and which
was conducted under the firm name of Kays,
Huston & Kays.

During the thirty-five years of his prac-
tice in Sussex county, the services of Judge
Huston were continuously in demand. It
almost seemed a foregone conclusion that he
would win cases, even under the greatest
difficulties. Upon attaining his majority he
had joined the ranks of the Republican
party, and from the outset was looked upon
as a leader. As a political speaker and writ-
er, he took part in every campaign since

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1876; his contributions to the newspapers
always aroused deep interest, and on several
occasions his was the leading spirit to im-
portant and greatly needed reforms. As a
public speaker, he was fluent and convinc-
ing, his high literary attainments and pleas-
ing address enabling him to sway his audi-
ences at will. But it was not alone in the
political field that his services as an orator
were in demand. In the service of churches
and organizations of varied scope and char-
acter, his talents were as freely given, and
were the subject grave or gay, it was sure to
be attractively handled by Judge Huston. He
was particularly impressive and charming as
an impromptu speaker, his brilliant ideas
and quaint, whimsical and telling turns of
speech being inimitable. His professional
services were always in demand, and at the
time of his death he had been retained on
eighteen of the forty-two cases on the dock-
et for the April term of court. He was ap-
pointed United States Circuit Court Com-
missioner for the District of New Jersey in
1879, and was admitted to practice in the
United States Circuit and District Courts
in 1 88 1 ; in 1884 he was appointed a
Special Master in Chancery by Chancellor
Runyon. In April, 1896, Governor Griggs
appointed him law judge for Sussex county
to fill a vacancy, and in January, 1897, he
was reappointed by the Governor, and con-
firmed by the Senate for a full term of five
years. In 1907 he was appointed Prosecu-
tor of Sussex county, was reappointed sub-
sequently, and retired in 1912.

Judge Huston married, September 2,
1878, Laura A. Snyder, daughter of Wil-
liam and Mary (Kays) Snyder, of Lafay-
ette. She survives her husband, as do also
children : Henry W., of Newton, and Mrs.
Nelson E. Frissell, of Trenton. The fun-
eral services of Judge Huston were conduct-
ed by the Rev. Milton E. Grant, pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was
assisted by the Rev. Clarence Rouse, of the
Presbyterian Church. During the funeral
services all places of business in the town

were closed in honor to his memory ; the
Court adjourned at two o'clock, and the
members of the Sussex County Bar attend-
ed the services in a body, having passed res-
olutions in honor of his memory at a meet-
ing held on April 20, 1915. Pages could be
filled were the words of praise spoken of
Judge Huston to be reproduced here, but
the limits of this article will not permit their
reproduction. Suffice it to say that he
brought to the discharge of the duties of his
office not only ripe experience and a thor-
ough knowledge of professional affairs, but
a conscientious desire and intention that, so
far as was possible, sound business princi-
ples and methods should be applied to the
administration of court affairs. He was not
hampered by a desire for other or higher of-
ficial position and so, with the directness and
candor so characteristic of him, he dealt
with the problems before him in a way that
secured effectual results.

PETTIT, Dr. Alonzo,

Medical Practitioner, Humanitarian.

By the death of Dr. Alonzo Pettit, of
Elizabeth, New Jersey, the community lost
a distinguished physician, whose connection
with the medical profession was one of
prominence. Lured by the hope of result,
he had carried his investigations beyond
those of the average practitioner, and in the
field of knowledge had gleaned many val-
uable truths whose practical utility to the
world he had demonstrated in a successful
practice.

Dr. Alonzo Pettit was born in Wilson,
Niagara county, New York, January II,
1842, and died at his home in Elizabeth.
New Jersey, in November, 1908. He was a
son of Samuel and Maria (Armstrong)
Pettit, the former a farmer and one of the
pioneer settlers of Wilson, New York,
where he was deacon in the Baptist church.
The American progenitor of the Pettit fam-
ily was William Brewster, of Mayflower
fame. Dr. Pettit attended the Wilson dis-

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trict school, and after suitable preparation,
matriculated at the University of Rochester,
from which he was graduated in the class
of 1863. He then took up the study of med-
icine at the University of Buffalo, from
which he was graduated in the class of 1867,
the degree of Doctor of Medicine being con-
ferred upon him. For a short time he filled
the responsible position of house physician
at the Buffalo General Hospital, and, in
1867 established himself in the practice of
his profession in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The excellent results he achieved in his
practice made his rise in this a comparative-
ly rapid one, and at the time of his death he
was considered one of the leading physicians
of the State. In association with several
other physicians he founded the Elizabeth
General Hospital, in which he was an at-
tending surgeon for a period of twenty-
seven years, and was chief of the medical
staff from 1892 until 1905. He was pres-
ident of the Union County Medical Soci-
ety ; president of the Clinical Society, Eliz-
abeth General Hospital ; city physician for
Elizabeth ; Union county jail physician ; and
physician to the Central Railroad of New
Jersey. While he cast his vote for the can-
didates of the Republican party, he never
took an active part in political affairs, hold-
ing the opinion that he was best serving his
fellowmen by devoting himself to the duties
of his professional life. He was a member
of the Masonic fraternity, the Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity, and the Elizabeth Town
and Country Club. He was a constituent
member of the Central Baptist Church, and
a deacon in that institution at the time of his
death.

Dr. Pettit married, in Elizabeth. August
31, 1869, Ellen Maria Dimock. They had
no children. No better estimate can be giv-
en of the character of Dr. Pettit than by
quoting from what his colleagues and organ-
izations with which he was connected, said
of him at the time of his death. Dr. Mc-
Lean, who had known and associated with
Dr. Pettit for many years, said, among other

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things: "As ;i surgeon as well as a physi-
cian. Dr. IVttit stood high in his profession.
He was a man who made lasting friends of
all with whom he came in contact. He was
a quiet, unassuming, Christian gentleman, a
learned and highly successful physician and
surgeon, and a man who. if he- could not
say a good word regarding a fellow man,
would say nothing at all." Dr. Victor Mrav-
lag, who was mayor-elect at the time of the
death of Dr. Pettit, said : "His ability as a
physician could not be questioned. He was
always kind and courteous and personally,
in my opinion, was one of the sweetest char-
acters that ever lived. He surely had no
superiors. He was a man of principle, and
lived up to it. In his death, not only the
medical fraternity, but the city, has lost one
of its best and mostly highly prized men."
Meetings to take suitable action were held
by all the institutions and organizations with
which he had been connected, and resolu-
tions passed. Following is an extract from
the tribute paid to his memory at the special
meeting of the Clinical Society of the Eliz-
abeth General Hospital : "He truly was a
man without the slightest selfishness — the
very personification of altruism. His sweet-
ness of character, his fortitude in bodily
suffering, his patient bearing under the
severe dispensation of Providence, which al-
most deprived him of the companionship of
his faithful wife — his purity of mind, his
upright life, placed him upon a level rarely
attained and never surpassed by men." In
the resolutions adopted by the Dispensary
Staff of the Elizabeth General Hospital we
find : "It has been the will of the Almighty
to take from us our beloved friend and as-
sociate. Dr. Alonzo Pettit, a man of sterling
integrity, a skilled physician and an honored
colleague ; a man who spoke ill of no one ;
who gave the best of his natural endow-
ments and broad knowledge without stint to
the service of his fellow men." He was one
of the charter members of the Union Coun-
ty Medical Society, and this also regarded
him as "A quiet, unobtrusive, Christian

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gentleman and physician, who was held in
the highest esteem by all his professional
brethren. His scientific attainments were of
a high order, and the patient, conscientious,
unselfish service which he has rendered to
the people of Elizabeth, endeared him to the
hearts and homes of a wide circle of those
who were so fortunate as to enjoy his pro-
fessional service."

The death of Mrs. Ellen (Dimock) Pettit,
widow of the late Dr. Alonzo Pettit, depriv'-
ed the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, of one
of its most earnest and high minded work-
ers. A woman who put thoughts of self
absolutely in the background, and whose
mind was constantly filled with plans fo-- the
relief of suffering humanity.

Mrs. Pettit was born in Yarmouth, Nova
Scotia, May 13, 1845, and died in July, 1912.
She was a daughter of the Rev. Anthony
Vaughn and Susan Rathbone (Westcn)
Dimock, a descendant in the paternal line
from the hereditary champions of England,
and in the maternal from Peter Brown, the
thirty-third signer of the Mayflower Com-
pact. Rev. Anthony Vaughn Dimock was a
Baptist minister, as had been a number of
his direct ancestors, and was stationed in
Nova Scotia, Massachusetts, Connecticut
and New Jersey, and had at one time been
a missionary in Prince Edward's Island.
The education of Mrs. Pettit was a very
comprehensive one, and was acquired in the
district schools of Willington, Connecticut,
and Templeton, Massachusetts, and in the
Connecticut Literary Institute in Suffield,
Connecticut. She became a writer of mis-
sionary stories and Sunday school lessons,
among them "Around the World," which
was published in Boston. She was the able
companion and co-worker of her talented
husband, and labored earnestly with him in
the establishment of the Elizabeth General
Hospital. She was the honorary president
for life of the Ladies' Aid Society connected
with this institution, and as a mark of ap-
preciation of her noble character and un-
varying interest and aid, the Training

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School for Nurses was named in her honor.
Mrs. Pettit married, at Elizabeth, August
31. 1869, Dr. Alonzo Pettit, whose memoir
also appears in this work. She was a con-
stituent member of the Central Baptist
Church, and it is largely owing to her efforts
that the institution was called into being.
After the dissolution of the Broad Street
Church, in 1877, Mrs. Pettit, with charac-
teristic tenacity of purpose, continued her
primary class, thus holding many of the
workers together. For many years she was
the presiding genius of its missionary enter-
prise, assistant superintendent of its Sunday
School and superintendent of its primary
department, thus almost literally fulfilling
the meaning of the old-time expression "I
belong to the Church."

That her activities were numerous and di-
versified, the following record will show :
Assistant superintendent of the Central
Baptist Sunday school ; superintendent of
the primary department of the Central Bap-
tist Sunday school ; member of the executive
department of the International Sunday
School Association ; member of the primary
department and officer of the International
Sunday School Association ; director in the
State Summer School of Primary Methods,
at Asbury Park ; president of the State Pri-
mary Council of New Jersey ; member of
the executive committee of the LTnion Coun-
ty Sunday School Association ; founder of
the Primary Teachers' Union of Elizabeth,
New Jersey ; chairman of the International
Conference of Women's Foreign Mission-
ary Boards of United States and Canada ;
State president of Women's Baptist Foreign
Missionary Society of New Jersey ; mem-
ber of the board of directors of the General
Society of the Women's Baptist Foreign
Missionary Society; originator of the Sum-
mer School of Missionary Methods at
Northfield ; founder of Foreign Missionary
Cradle Roll ; president of Ladies' Aid So-
ciety of Elizabeth General Hospital ; found-
er of the Pettit Home for Nurses ; founder
of the Training School for Nurses of the

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Elizabeth General Hospital ; one of the
founders of the Graded System of Sunday
School Lessons now in use (Interdenomina-
tional) ; president of the Central Association
of New Jersey Baptist Women's Foreign
Missionary Society ; organizer of the Junior
Department of the Women's Baptist
Foreign Missionary Society ; one of the in-
corporators of the Elizabeth Charity Or-
ganization, and of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children ; a member
of the Monday Club of Elizabeth, and of the
Elizabeth Town and Country Club.

The home of Mrs. Pettit was a center of
unbounded hospitality, a haven of rest and
refreshment to returning missionaries, and
its doors were ever open. Intense in her de-
votion to her own family, her friendship
was a priceless boon, and those who knew
her best, most treasure her memory as a
lasting, changeless possession.

TOWNSEND, Zebulon E.,

Veteran Court Official.

An unusual scene was enacted in the Pas-
saic county court presided over by Judge
Black when the business of the court was
suspended to pay tributes of respect to one
not a lawyer or jurist, but to the oldest of-
ficer of the court. Zebulon E. Townsend
was for forty-two years connected with the
sheriff's office as deputy and court crier. At
the time a former Governor of New Jersey
and Attorney-General of the United States,
John W. Griggs, spoke words of admiration
and respect for his old friend, as did Judge
Black and other eminent members of the
bar. Known to his intimates as "Zeb," Mr.
Townsend had a wide acquaintance among
the best men in the State and left behind
him a record of devotion to duty integrity
and faithfulness never excelled. In recogni-
tion of his long term of devoted service, on
motion of John W. Griggs, seconded by
former Prosecutor Eugene Emley, the court
adjourned on the afternoon of Mr. Town-

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send's funeral, many lawyers and court of-
ficials attending the last solemn services.

Zebulon E. Townsend was born in Pater-
son, New Jersey, in March, 1837, the place
of his birth being the house on Main street,
standing on the present site of the Van Dyk
furniture store. He died October 27,
1912, aged seventy-five years. He was a
son of Nathaniel Townsend, born in Sussex
county, New Jersey, and a descendant of a
family long numbered among the agricultur-
ists of that county.

Nathaniel Townsend was born in Ham-
burg, Sussex county, in 1813, died in Pater-
son, New Jersey, March 17, 1899. He was
well educated, and when nineteen years of
age came to Paterson, where until his
death he was prominent in business and in
public life. He established one of the early
livery barns in Paterson and prospered ex-
ceedingly, always holding a character for
honorable dealing and uprightness. He was
mayor of Paterson two terms, 1869-70,
1875-77, ar>d sheriff of Passaic county, two
terms, 1866-68, and 1872-74. He also serv-
ed as city commissioner, and all his life was
active in city politics, one of the representa-
tive Democrats of his day. He retired from
business several years prior to his death, but
never surrendered his interest in public af-
fairs. His livery barns were on Main street,
near Market, and during his first term as
sheriff prior to the erection of suitable court
rooms, the sessions of the county court were
held there. During his second term as sher-
iff, the court house on Main street had been
erected and court sessions removed there.
Children of Nathaniel Townsend : Mrs.
James G. Morgan; Mrs. E. D. Gardner, of
Union Hill ; Miss Jane Townsend, Mrs.
Martha Dufford, of Paterson ; and Zebulon
E. Townsend.

Zebulon E. Townsend passed his child-
hood at his father's residence, 20 Hamilton
street, Paterson, and there resided until his
marriage in 1859, at the age of twenty-two
years. He then installed his bride in their

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own home at 16 Hamilton street, and there
resided for nearly half a century, until death
removed the wife, and four years later the
husband followed.

Mr. Townsend secured his education in
the public schools, and was associated with
his father in business until the latter's
first election as sheriff, when he appointed
Zebulon E. Townsend his assistant, or un-
der sheriff. This office he retained under
each succeeding sheriff, performing the du-
ties of that office and those of court crier,
having been first appointed to the latter of-
fice by Judge (afterward Governor) Bedle.
Although his father was a vigorous cam-
paigner of the old school, the son took little
active part in political affairs, although in
1878 he was the Democratic nominee for
sheriff. He failed of an election by a small
plurality, and never again was a candidate.
He continued as under sheriff and court
crier for forty-two years, and it was his
boast that for forty years he had never miss-
ed an opening day of any term of the Passaic
courts. Since that time he missed one day,
but was again on duty at the opening of the
September term, but a few weeks prior to
his death. He was one of the kindliest
hearted of men, modest and unassuming,
highly respected, and esteemed by all who
knew him, and "their name was legion." He
did not appreciate that his end was so near,
but planned some work he wanted to attend
to only the day preceding his death. But
the vital forces were all consumed, and
quietly and peacefully the old veteran pass-
ed to that land where courts are not called,
and only the Great Judge sits in judgment.

Mr. Townsend married, in 1859, Eliza-
beth R., daughter of Rev. S. W. Decker, a
minister of the Methodist Episcopal church,
belonging to the Newark Conference. Mrs.
Townsend died in 1908, her married life
covering a period but little short of half
a century. Annie, the only child of Zebulon
and Elizabeth R. (Decker) Townsend, mar-
ried Thomas Drew, and resides in Paterson.

Children : Emmett Townsend, Thomas
Kendall, Elizabeth Townsend.

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WERTS, George T.,

Distinguished Jurist, Governor.

Distinguished lawyer, jurist and public
official, the career of George T. Werts, best
known to Jerseymen as an honored gover-
nor, was a notable one from whatever point
viewed. His standing as a lawyer was best
attested by his appointment to the Supreme
Bench of New Jersey ; his popularity by the
fact that he was never defeated in a politi-
cal contest ; his value as a public official by
the fact that two of his bills, the Werts bal-
lot reform bill and the Werts liquor bill, in-
troduced by him as State Senator, became
laws that are yet subjects of discussion. His
term as governor was marked by strict at-
tention to duty and a sincere desire to give
the people who elected him, wise, just and
impartial legislation. His business career
was equally notable, his connection with en-
terprises of magnitude continuous until his
retirement.

George T. Werts was born at Hacketts-
town, New Jersey, March 24, 1846, died at
his residence in Jersey City, January 17,
1910, son of Peter Werts ; his mother was a
Vanatta. His father, a builder, moved to
Bordentown, New Jersey, in 1849, and there
the lad attended private and public schools,
finishing at the high school, then entering
the Model School at Trenton, and continu-
ing a student there until he was seventeen
years of age. He then began the study of
law with his maternal uncle, Jacob Vanatta,
at Morristown, New Jersey, a town destined
to be the place of his activities for many
years. He was admitted to the Morris coun-
ty bar at the November term, 1867, and at
once began practice in Morristown. He was
successful in practice and very popular with
his townsmen, was engaged on one side or
the other of all important cases that came
before the county court, and was chosen for

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many important city and county offices. His
legal career continued successfully, inter-
rupted only by his office holding, until Feb-
ruary, 1892, when he was appointed by Gov-
ernor Abbett and unanimously confirmed by
the Senate, a justice of the Supreme Court
of New Jersey. This office he accepted, re-
signing as State Senator from Morris coun-
ty and as mayor of Morristown in order to
do so. His term as Justice of the Supreme
Court was a short one, although the duties
were entirely congenial and in full accord
with his private wishes, but the demands of
his party that he become its gubernatorial
candidate, were reluctantly acceded to, and
he served most acceptably as governor of
New Jersey during the years 1893-94-95,
resigning his seat on the bench after his
election. On retiring from the governor's
chair, he resumed the practice of law, resid-
ing in Jersey City, and also engaging in im-
portant business enterprises. His career as
a lawyer and jurist was an honorable one,
gaining him the entire respect of both bench
and bar. During the campaign for govern-
or he made no speeches or personal effort
of any kind, sitting daily at the Hudson
county court house in discharge of his judi-
cial duty.

His first public office was that of recorder
of Morris county, an office he filled from
May, 1883, until May, 1885. In 1886 he
was elected mayor of Morristown, and was
twice reelected, each time without opposi-
tion, although originally nominated by the
Democratic party, that having been his polit-
ical affiliation from his first vote. He serv-
ed as mayor from 1886 until 1892, and dur-
ing that period also sat in both houses of the
New Jersey legislature from Morris county,
and was president of the Senate and was
State Senator when appointed by Governor
Leon Abbett to the Supreme Bench. He
was exceedingly loth to give up his seat
on the bench, and even after his nomina-
tion by the Democratic State Convention
for the high office of governor, did not for
some time determine to sacrifice his person-

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al preferences to the party will. Finally he
yielded, wrote his letter of acceptance, then
performed all his judicial duti.", as usual,
leaving his election or rejection entirely to
the men who insisted on his candidacy. His
opponent was that strong Republican, John
Kean Jr., but Judge Werts was successful
in defeating Mr. Kean by a plurality of
7265. Following his election. Judge Werts
resigned his judgeship, and for the ensuing
three years was New Jersey's capable, effi-
cient and honored chief executive. At the
close of his term in 1896 he returned to the
practice of his profession and to his duties
as president of the New York-New Jersey
Bridge Company. He also served by ap-
pointment as member of the Morris Canal
Commission, and as a member of the Hud-
son-Fulton Commission.

Governor Werts married Emily N. Run-
yon, who survived him. The family resi-
dence where he died was 275 Union street,
Jersey City.

LEWIS, Griffith Walker,

Manufacturer, Man of Affairs.

There are various tests that may be ap-
plied to the life of a man in order to deter-
mine the value of that life to his community.
Success comes to men in many forms and
often favors are showered upon a man who
absorbs them without realizing his duty to
his fellow men. The true value of the life
of Griffith Walker Lewis far transcends a
sum expressed in figures, for it covered
many fields of labor and was one that, re-
ceiving much, gave out yet more abundant-
ly. There was no interest of the city of
Burlington that was ever denied his helping
hand, and when he stepped outside of local
limits and became a State figure, it was but
to enter a larger field of usefulness. The
honors and emoluments of a successful busi-
ness life were his in abundance : official hon-
ors were richly bestowed upon him by the
voters of Burlington county, no successful
candidate ever appearing against him at the

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polls in that county ; the fraternal societies
gladly welcomed him to their midst, be-
stowing their official recognition ; the institu-
tions of philanthropy and charity supported
by free will offerings looked upon him as a
friend in whose fidelity they could ever con-
fide ; and men in every walk of life gave him
their full confidence and friendship. By
these tests his life was one of proven value,
and so long as men value honor, uprightness,
patriotism, public spirit, charitable impulse,
and loyalty, the name of Griffith Walker
Lewis will be spoken with deepest rever-
ence.

His ancestors were of Pennsylvania resi-
dence, his grandfather coming to New Jer-
sey from Bucks county. Griffith Walker,
son of Charles and Ann (Love) Lewis, was
born in New Jersey, located in Burlington,
and there founded the shoe .manufacturing
business now known as G. W. Lewis and
Son, which was largely brought to its pres-
ent importance under the management of his
son, Griffith Walker Lewis.

Griffith Walker Lewis, last named, was
born in Burlington, New Jersey, July i,
1862, and died in the city of his birth, Au-
gust 28, 1915, son of Griffith Walker and
Annie (Kimball) Lewis. He was deprived
of a mother's care and love when seven
years of age, his life from that period until
his sixteenth year being spent on a farm near
Jacksonville, in Burlington county. His
education, begun in the public schools, was
completed with a two years' course at Bur-
lington Military College, and at the age of
eighteen years he entered business life as his
father's assistant in the shoe manufacturing
business. He later was admitted to a part-
nership, and on the death of the elder Grif-
fith Walker Lewis in February, 1899, suc-
ceeded him as head of G. W. Lewis & Son,
established in January, 1857. He continued
the efficient head of the company and after
its incorporation became president, an office
he filled until his death.

Mr. Lewis was a man of strong business
and executive ability, and as the years

brought him experience, full recognition of
his powers was accorded by men of high
position in the local business world. He
was one of the incorporators and continu-
ously a director of the Burlington City Loan
and Trust Company, director of the City of
Burlington Building and Loan Asso-
ciation, and president of the Burling-
ton Savings Institution. He was elect-
ed vice-president of the Mechanics Na-
tional Bank in 1906, and later was chosen
the executive head, holding that high posi-
tion at the time of his death. He had other
business connections of less importance, as
there was no move inaugurated that tended
to advance the material interests of Burling-
ton but found in him a willing, liberal sup-
porter. His standing as a banker was un-
impeachable, for he combined the shrewd-
ness of the investor with the sound judg-
ment and conservative action of the finan-
cier, in all his transactions building on the
solid rock of probity and fair dealing. In
public life Mr. Lewis won the high regard
of men of all parties, and perhaps there
never was a man of his prominence and
length of service who had so few political
enemies. And this was not because he was
not strong in his political belief nor out-
spoken in his advocacy of republican men
and measures, but because he was eminent-
ly fair, harbored no resentments or preju-
dices, and gave to every man the rights he
strenuously insisted upon for himself, full
liberty of political thought and action. In
1894 he first entered public official life as a
member of the common council of Burling-
ton, although he had taken active interest
and part in political affairs ever since be-
coming a voter, in 1883. He served in coun-
cil six years ; was chairman of the finance
committee two years, and president of coun-
cil one year. In 1906 he was the candidate
of the Republican party for Assembly, and
at the November polls was returned victor
over his Democratic opponent by a plural-
ity of 2481 votes. He served his constitu-
ency and State so efficiently that he was re-

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elected in 1907 and again in 1908, an ex-
pression of confidence always gratifying to
the public man. During his last year in the
house he was Republican floor leader, and
worthily led his followers. In 1909 he was
called to higher honors by election to the
State Senate, representing Burlington coun-
ty, winning the election by a plurality of
3279 votes over his Democratic opponent,
who had also at a previous election contest-
ed with him for the office of assemblyman.
In 1914 he was a candidate for Congress at
the primaries, Isaac Bacharach, of Atlantic
City, winning the nomination. At the time
of his death Mr. Lewis was a member of
the State Board of Railway Directors, an
office to which he was appointed in 1915 by
Governor Fielder. During his entire term
of public service he was ever the public spir-
ited citizen rather than the partisan, al-
though he stood squarely with his party up-
on all issues of party faith, was constant
in his loyalty to all its tenets, and permitted
nothing to cloud his republicanism. He was
most democratic in his nature and deemed
every man his friend, whatever his station
in life, unless that friendship was forfeited
by unworthy deeds. He held the entire con-
fidence of his constituency and whenever
opportunity was granted this confidence
found expression in a majority at the polls.
Not less highly regarded was Mr. Lewis
in social and fraternal life. He was "made
a Mason" in Burlington Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, and after passing several
official chairs received the highest honor a
subordinate lodge can confer, election to the
worshipful master's chair. He held all de-
grees in Capitular and Templar Masonry,
belonging to the Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons, and Helena Commandery, No. 3,
Knights Templar. In the Scottish Rite he
held all degrees up to and including the thir-
ty-second degree. He was also a noble of
Lulu Temple, Philadelphia, Ancient Arabic
Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. To
his Masonic obligations he added those of
other prominent fraternal orders, belonging

tti I'.nrlitigloii Lodge, \'o. 22, Independent
( )nler of i )<Icl Fellows; Hope Lodge, No.
13, Knights of Pythias; and Mount I lolly
Lodge, No. 848, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elk:-,, being a past exalted ruler of
the last named organization. His fraternity
was genuine, and in all these bodies he held
the unbounded love and esteem of his breth-
ren. The charity they taught found an echo
in his own heart, and many were his deeds
of kindness and most unostentatiously per-
formed. His liberality in the way of tem-
porary loans was proverbial, and for small
sums not exceeding fifty dollars he never
required written form of obligation, putting
every man upon his honor. In addition to
the above societies he belonged to the Loyal
Order of Moose, the Junior Order of
L^nited American Mechanics, was an active
member of one of Burlington's fire com-
panies, ex-president of the Oneida Boat
Club, honorary member of the Lakanoo
Boat Club, director of the Masonic Hall As-
sociation, director of the Burlington Free
Library, and president of the Mount Holly
Fair Association. The honorary pallbear-
ers at his funeral were representative men
from these organizations, and men with
whom he had been associated in public life,
including an ex-Governor of the State of
New Jersey, Edward C. Stokes.

Senator Lewis married, June 28, 1893,
Mary R., daughter of William W. and
Rhoda J. (Falkenburg) Fenton, of Jack-
sonville, New Jersey, who survives him with
two children : Howard Fenton Lewis and
Helen Burr Lewis, all residing in Burling-
ton.

The predominating trait in the character
of Mr. Lewis was his great-heartedness.
To relieve suffering or need was his first
impulse when confronted with either. His
generosity was not an impulse, however, but
a sacred duty that he never attempted to
shirk. He gave with a free heart and with
a spirit of thankfulness that he was able to
give. Yet he was discriminating, and al-
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he never became embittered, but until his
di'ath continued his practice of giving to the
deserving. He was a well balanced man of
gifted mentality and successful in his busi-
ness undertakings. He was a man of great
energy and never shirked a business or of-
ficial task. Integrity was the foundation
stone of his character and upon that rock
he built a life filled with manly deeds, one
that brought him close to the lives and hearts
of the people, whom he ever trusted and
who ever trusted him.

WHITNEY, Rev. George Henry, D. D.,

Clergyman, Educator, Litterateur.

The story of the life of Dr. Whitney is
the history of a mind, not one of stirring
events or unique situations. He was by
temperament, education, and choice, essen-
tially an educator, but in literature and in
the pulpit also won conspicuous success. He
loved books, and could make them. His
"Bible Geography," published many years
ago, is valued by travelers through Bible
lands as one of the expert guides, and his
frequent contributions to the press, secular
and religious, were characterized by clear-
ness, accuracy, and comprehensiveness. But
his great work was as an educator, and
what Arnold was to Rugby and Mark Hop-
kins to Williams College, so was George H.
Whitney to Centenary Collegiate Institute.
Elected its president in 1869, he made it a
vital center of culture and character. Its
phenomenal success commanded widespread
attention, and alluring offers came to Dr.
Whitney from some of the great universities
of our land. But his heart was in the sem-
inary, and he continued its head until 1895,
when under the compulsion of physical dis-
ability he retired into the solitude of Pain.
When a little later, fire swept out of ex-
istence the seminary buildings, it was feared
the blow would end his life. On the
contrary, it filled him with new zeal and in-
spired him to recreate his beloved seminary.

He lived to see, largely as the result of his
ideas, a new Institute rise, commanding in
its architectural features, and, when the in-
stitution was again ready to receive students,
he answered the call to act as temporary
president. When succeeded in office, he
continued President Meeker's ablest coun-
sellor, and as president emeritus and trustee
continued in active sympathy with the Sem-
inary until the last.

While Dr. Whitney's fame will rest chief-
ly upon his work in the educational field, he
was also a preacher of marked ability. He
was a close student of theology, keeping
in closest touch with modern science and
philosophy. He preached truth, not in the
abstract, but in the concrete, not as sys-
tematized doctrine, but as a practical pre-
cept. He preached as a teacher, the pulpit
his desk, the congregation his class. But
there came to him inspirational hours, when
he cast off the scholastic cap and gown and
allowed the fullness of his mind and heart
to flow forth in freedom from his lips. Then
his classical and biblical training appeared in
its strength and inspired his speech. The
beauty of his personal character grew with
the years, losing its earlier puritan severity,
and in its stead he substituted his own teach-
ing,— that the love of Christ in one's own
heart is a larger and safer rule of conduct
than any formal law. In the gallery of
Newark Conference necrology there hangs
no portrait that will be more reverently re-
membered than that of the Reverend
George H. Whitney, D. D., educator, and
minister of the Gospel.

Dr. Whitney was of the seventh Ameri-
can generation of the family founded by
Henry Whitney, born in England and first
of record in Southold, Long Island, Oc-
tober 8, 1649, and was inhabitant of Hunt-
ington, Long Island, August 17, 1658, when
he bought of Wyandance, sachem of Pam-
manake, "three whole necks of Meshapeake
Land for the use of the whole town of
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one of thirty-three named in "A true and
perfect List of all the Freemen appertain-
ing vnto the plantation of Nonvake."

John, son of Henry Whitney, the found-
er, settled with his father in Norwalk, fol-
lowed his business of millwright and mill-
er, and succeeded him in ownership of the
mill and homestead. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Richard Smith.

Richard, son of John and Elizabeth
(Smith) Whitney, was also a millwright and
miller, living in Norwalk for several years,
then settled in that part of the Stratfiekl
Society lying within the town of Fairfield.
He married Hannah, daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Beers) Darling, of Fairfield.

John, son of Richard and Hannah (Dar-
ling) Whitney, was a ship carpenter at
Stony Creek, in Branford, Connecticut. He
married Deborah Smith, born in New
Haven, Connecticut. His sons John, Enos,
and Jared, all served in the Revolutionary
War.

Tared, youngest son of John and Deborah
(Smith) Whitney, was a ship carpenter and
ship builder of Branford, Connecticut. He
was captured during the Revolutionary War
by a British armed vessel, and was con-
fined in the Jersey prison ship in New York
harbor. He married Sarah, daughter of
David Rogers, a soldier of the Revolution.

William, son of Jared and Sarah (Rog-
ers) Whitney, was born at Branford, Con-
necticut, June 16, 1800, and died in New-
ark, New Jersey. He was a manufacturer
of boots and shoes, and a merchant, resid-
ing at various times in Connecticut, Wash-
ington, and Georgetown, District of Colum-
bia, Springfield, Ohio, and Newark, New
Jersey. When a lad of twelve, in Novem-
ber, 1812, he was captured, with the crew
of the "Union" of Branford, by a British
cruiser off Charleston, South Carolina, and
five days later, after being separated from
the British fleet in a gale, was recaptured
by the American privateer "Mary Ann," of
New York. He was a lifelong devoted
Christian, and a prominent layman of the

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Methodist Protestant Church, n \ ing as lay
delegate in five quadrennial sessions of the
General Conference of that church. Wil-
liam Whitney married (first) at Irvington,
New Jersey, December 3, 1818, Permelia
Cogswell, bom at "North Karms," four
miles west of Newark, New Jersey, May 13,
1796, died in Washington, District of Co-
lumbia, October 27, 1839, daughter of
Aaron and Elizabeth (Baldwin) Cogswell.
He married (second) August 6, 1842,
Eveline Cogswell, sister of his first wife.

Such was the ancestry of George Henry
Whitney, third son and fourth child of Wil-
liam Whitney and his first wife, Permelia
Cogswell. He was born at Georgetown,
District of Columbia, July 30, 1830, and
died June 6, 1913. After graduation from
Newark Academy, he taught in that school
until his admission to Wesleyan University
at Middletown, Connecticut, in 1858. He
was graduated A. M. by Wesleyan Univer-
sity after a full course, then for one year
was principal of the Academy at Macedon
Centre, New York. For two years, 1859-
1861, he was principal of Oneida Seminary,
Oneida, New York. He had in the mean-
time completed theological courses, was duly
ordained, and in April, iSoi, became a
member of the Newark Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. He was pas-
tor of Somerville, New Jersey, from April
to November. 1861 ; at Elizabeth to March,
1863 : at Plainfield to March, 1868 ; at Trin-
ity, Jersey City, to March, 1870; and until
March, 1871. was under appointment by the
Conference engaged in the work of erecting
Centenary Collegiate Institute at Hacketts-
town, New Jersey, one of the many noble
memorials erected by the Methodist Episco-
pal Church during the year closing its first
century of existence. He was elected pres-
ident of the Seminary in 1869, but after the
erection of the buildings was for three
years, 1871-1874, pastor of St. George
Church at Passaic, during which pastorate
he built a new stone church there at a cost
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residence at Hackettstown, and for twenty-
five years devoted himself solely to the up-
building of that institution. During those
twenty-five years he was the potent factor
in deu-rmming the plans of the original
buildings, in securing the funds for their
erection, in the selection and organization
nf the faculty, and in creating the intellec-
tual, social, and moral atmosphere of the
school. Although supported by an able
board of trustees and associated with a fac-
ulty of superior culture, his will was the
recognized force in its management, and his
monument is the imposing buildings of the
Seminary overlooking Hackettstown on
Seminary Hill. He resigned the presidency
in 1895, the victim of a hopeless ailment,
but his heart was ever there, and when in a
night the Seminary buildings were destroy-
ed by fire, it acted as a new call to life, and
as member of the building committee he did
more than all to shape the idea which the
architect crystallized in the present beauti-
ful, commodious and well arranged semi-
nary buildings. He then served as tempor-
ary president until the election of his suc-
cessor, then as president emeritus and as
trustee continued his interest in the welfare
of the seminary, an interest that only ended
with his life.

Dr. Whitney's literary fame depends
upon his "Handbook of Bible Geography,"
written in the years 1868-1871, reprinted in
I.oiidnn, and translated into German; and
upon his "Commentary on the Berean Sun-
da) School Lesson" (1872-1874). In 1873
he made a map of Egypt, Sinai, and Pales-
tine, six feet square, depicting the then most
recent researches in these lands. In 1873,
Mount Union College, Ohio, conferred up-
on him the degree D. D. He was one of the
founders of Wesleyan Chapter, Alpha Del-
ta Phi, while a student at the University,
and at the time of his death was a member
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church
of Plainfield, New Jersey.

He married (first) at Theresa, New
York, Rev. J. M. Freeman officiating, Car-

oline Amanda Shepard, born in Stock-
bridge, New York, May 17, 1834, died in
Newton, New Jersey, December 19, 1865,
daughter of Rev. Hiram and Amanda (But-
terfield) Shepard ; she is buried in Fair-
mount Cemetery, Newark. He married
(second) December 24, 1867, at Plainfield,
New Jersey, Rev. John H. Vincent officiat-
ing, Henrietta French, daughter of Dr.
Phineas Mundy and Mary Emeline (Os-
wald) French. Child of first marriage:
Irving Shepard. Children of second mar-
riage : May Vincent, Bertha Hurst, George
Harold, Helen.

VAN DUYNE, Harrison,

Ideal Citizen and Public Official.

Harrison Van Duyne was a scion of an
old Dutch family, of whom the American
progenitor was Martin Van Duyne. who
settled in White Hall, near Boonton, Mor-
ris county, New Jersey, prior to 1700. His
son James succeeded to the homestead, and
was in turn succeeded by his son Ralph,
whose son, John R., succeeded to the prop-
erty. He married Sarah Doremus, and
they were the parents of Harrison Van
Duyne, who in turn succeeded to the prop-
erty.

Harrison Van Duyne was born in Morris
county, New Jersey, December 25, 1845,
and died at his home, No. 350 Sumner ave-
nue, Newark, New Jersey, May 3, 1914.
Until the age of eleven years he resided in
his native place, then his parents removed
to Newark and he received his education in
the public schools of that city, and was
graduated from the high school in the class
of 1862. After studying surveying and
civil engineering, he spent a year in the oil
regions of Pennsylvania, having purchased
property in Woodside in 1873. Later he
opened an office in Newark, New Jersey,
where he continued the practice of his pro-
fession until the time of his death, gaining
a place in the front ranks of surveyors and
civil engineers in his section of the state.

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For a number of years the public affairs
of the city had been given a good share of
his time, and he studied the important ques-
tions of the day with close attention. Short-
ly after attaining his majority he was in-
duced by his friends to become a candi-
date for school commissioner, and he was
elected and re-elected to the Board of Edu-
cation, serving four years, all told, in that
body. But Mr. Van Duyne had already
made a record for himself, which convinced
his friends that he would appear to advan-
tage in a higher sphere of usefulness. Ac-
cordingly he was graduated, as it were, from
the school board to the State Legislature in
1879 as a member of the lower house. There
he at once arrayed himself on the side of the
people as against corporations, which atti-
tude he consistently held to. As a debater
he was the equal of any in the house, and
his knowledge of parliamentary law made
it impossible for any of his opponents to
get the better of him on a technicality. He
had no difficulty in securing a re-election
and was chosen for a third term by his con-
stituents. This exceptional honor was rec-
ognized and concurred in by his colleagues,
who further complimented him by making
him speaker of the House. One of Mr.
Van Duyne's acts in the New Jersey Leg-
islature, which redounded greatly to the
benefit of the people and for which he had
been repeatedly complimented, was the
change in the law under which the money
raised by taxation for the support of the
public schools was distributed. Previous to
1 88 1 this money was raised by a two mill
tax on all the property of the different
counties, and distributed from the common
fund according to the number of children
in each county. While this plan would have
been fair if the valuations had been made
relatively equal, but as was well known,
many of the counties grossly undervalued
their property, while the Essex valuation
was if anything high, and the result was that
Essex county was mulcted each year from
$30,000 to $75,000, which went to the so-

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called poorer counties. I'mlcr Mr. Van
Duyne's law, the State assesses according
to the property valuations, as before, but
ninety per cent, of the amount raised in
any county must go back to that coun-
ty. The remaining ten per cent, is left to the
judgment of the Stair Hoard of Kdiu-ation
for distribution, and, as a matter of fact,
is mostly returned to the county from which
it came. Mr. Van Duyne attempted to get
this legislation enacted in 1880, but it was
not until a year after, when he became
speaker of the House and gained much ad-
ditional influence with the members, that he
was enabled to carry his point.

In 1886 the tax liens of the city of New-
ark were in a very much tangled condition.
Assessments had been levied upon property
which could not bear the expense. Tax-
payers were virtually swamped with liens,
and the conditions were critical, as well as
chaotic. A commission was formed to re-
vise and adjust several million dollars' worth
of back taxes and assessments. It was a
task of great responsibility, and one which
could be entrusted to none but men of un-
questioned integrity. Mr. Van Duyne was
chosen by the court as president of the
commission, and he performed his duties
in a conscientious and praiseworthy man-
ner. When in 1894 a law was passed giving
the then mayor, Julius A. Lebkuecher, pow-
er to appoint a new Board of Street and
Water Commissioners, Mr. Van Duyne
was one of his first selections, and he was
made president of the board by the other
members. His practical knowledge of city
affairs, coupled with his technical training
as a surveyor, made him a most valuable
man in the board. The following spring,
when the board was made an elective body,
Mr. Van Duyne was chosen for two years
more, and he was continued as president by
the new board for another year. At the
expiration of his term he was once more
placed in nomination by his party, in 1897,
for a full three-year term. Though his
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and nearly the entire Republican ticket
swamped, Mr. Van Duyne carried the city
by over one thousand plurality.

Tin nigh this fact may seem surprising,
the secret is an open one to anybody who has
followed the doings of the Board of Works
during the past few years. Invariably, Mr.
Van Duyne was found on the right side of
every question where the city's interests
were at stake. During his incumbency of
the office the board had considerable dealing
with the street railroad companies, and the
corporations were made to feel that the city
had some rights in the streets. He waged
what might be called incessant warfare upon
the trolley people for better roadbeds, more
cars to furnish seating accommodations for
passengers, and a wider liberty in the use of
transfer privileges. An ordinance to com-
pel the street railroad companies to carry
passengers for three cents when seats were
not furnished was introduced by Mr. Van
Duyne, and, though it failed to pass, it par-
tially accomplished the object for which it
was intended, by bringing the companies to
a realization of the fact that more cars
would have to be furnished.

The law of 1895 providing the capital
fund for street paving and also providing
an easy form of payment by which property
owners could pay in installments in five
years, and under which hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars worth of street paving work
was done, was mainly the suggestion of Mr.
Van Duyne. Many thousand dollars worth
of sewers were also constructed. Mr. Van
1 hiyne always made it a point to familiarize
himself with every ordinance and study the
needs and the plans of every improvement.
In such cases the city secured the benefit of
In- protVsMonal experience and his peculiar
fitness for such matters. The city's water
supply was also carefully looked after by
Mr. Van Duyne, who served as chairman
of the Department of Water for nearly two
years, and the city's right under the water
contract was zealously guarded by him.

Mr. Van Duyne was one of the organi-

zers of the American Society of Municipal
Improvement, an association composed of
city officials from all parts of the country
who met in annual convention to exchange
views and reap the benefits of each other's
experiences on all questions pertaining to
urban development, and at the convention
of the society in Nashville, Tennessee, in
1897, a testimonial was paid to Mr. Van
Duyne's ability in the form of an election
to the presidency of the society. He was
for many years a member of the Newark
Board of Trade, was a director of the Fire-
men's Insurance Company, and president of
the Eighth Ward Building and Loan Asso-
ciation. He was a member of the Northern
Republican Club, and a number of other
political organizations. He was also a mem-
ber of the Masonic fraternity, up to and
including the Knight Templar degree, and
a member of the Holland Society of New
York. The directors of the Board of Trade
of Newark immediately called a meeting
when the news of the death of Mr. Van
Duyne was received, and resolutions were
adopted suitable to the occasion. Eighty
members of the board were requested to
attend the funeral services. Special men-
tion was made of his part in the campaign
for the purification of the Passaic river, his
interest in the reclamation of the meadows,
and his energetic fight against the "Moun-
tain View Reservoir" project.

Mr. Van Duyne married, in 1871, Eliza-
beth F., daughter of former Mayor Fred-
erick W. Ricord, and of their children four
sons and a daughter survive him : Dr. Sarah
Elizabeth. Harrison R., Captain Frederick
W., of the Fourth United States Infantry,
J. Ralph and Philip R.

Frederick William Ricord was born on
the Island of Guadalotipe, where his parents
were temporarily living, October 7, 1819,
and died August 12, 1897. His paternal
grandfather was a wealthy and prominent
man in France who, after the fall of the
Girondists in 1794, and during the horrors
which succeeded the accession of Robe-

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spierre was proscribed. He made his escape
from the guillotine, fled into Italy, and from
thence with his family to the West Indies.
In 1798 he came to the United States, set-
tled in Baltimore, where his youngest son,
Dr. Philip Ricord, later one of the most dis-
tinguished physicians of Paris, was born.

Jean Baptiste Ricord, another son, and
father of Frederick William Ricord, in early
manhood was sent North to complete his
education and acquire a profession. In 1810,
the year he was graduated from the College
of Physicians and Surgeons in New York
City, he became a citizen of the United
States, and settled at Belleville, New Jersey.
There he married Elizabeth, a daughter of
Rev. Peter Stryker, a cleryman of the Re-
formed church of Belleville. Mrs. Ricord
was a writer of pronounced ability, an ac-
tive worker in all enterprises of a charitable
nature, was one of the founders of the New-
ark Orphan Asylum, and the first directress
of the board of managers of this institution,
an office she held until her death in 1865.

Frederick William Ricord lived with his
parents for a short time in New York City,
then until his eighth year in Woodbridge,
New Jersey, after which they removed to
Western New York, where he was prepared
for entrance to Geneva College, at which he
became a student at the early age of four-
teen years. He was matriculated at Rut-
gers College, and left this institution, to
study law in Geneva. His ambitious, pro-
gressive nature found this road to fortune
a slow one, however, and he turned his at-
tention to that of pedagogy, for which he
was eminently fitted by nature. For a per-
iod of twelve years he taught a private
school in Newark. In 1849 ne was appoint-
ed librarian of the Newark Library Associ-
ation, and in that office rendered invaluable
service. His sincere love for books enabled
him to make a wise choice among treasures
of this nature, and his richly stored mind
broadened still more. While in this office,
he was elected a member of the first Board
of Education of Newark, and served in that

capacity fn.m 1853 to 1869. IK- was sec-
retary of the board for six years, and its
president in 1807-68-09. During tliis period
he was also appointed State Superintendent
of Public Schools, and served a term of four
years. In 1865 he was elected sheriff nf Es-
sex county, and was twice reelected. In
1869 he was elected mayor of the city of
Newark, reelected in 1871, and served alto-
gether four years. Not long after the ex-
piration of this last mentioned term of pub-
lice service he was appointed lay judge of
the Court of Common Pleas of Essex coun-
ty. Later he served for many years as li-
brarian of the New Jersey Historical So-
ciety. While in office as mayor. Judge Ki-
cord, against the long continued opposition
of the common council, refused his consent
to an ordinance giving the city wood pave-
ments, and, although all means were tried
to make him change his course, he carried
the matter to the Supreme Court and the
Court of Errors, was victorious, and thus
saved the city great and needless expense.

His literary work, however, was always
considered by Judge Ricord the most impor-
tant feature of his life. He wrote and pub-
lished the following works : "An English
Grammar," D. Appleton & Company ; "His-
tory of Rome," A. S. Barnes & Company;
"Life of Madame de Longueville, from the
French of Cousin," D. Appleton & Com-
pany ; "The Henriade, from the French of
Voltaire," H. W. Derby; "English Songs
from Foreign Tongues," Charles Scribner's
Sons. He also translated the "Comedies of
Terence" from the Latin, and "More Eng-
lish Songs from Foreign Tongues," which
comprised translations from the Latin, Dan-
ish, Flemish, German, French, Portugese
and other languages.

ROGERS, Major Peter F.,

Civil War Veteran, Public Official.

Physically and morally, Major Rogers
was literally "tried as by fire," his life his-
tory including chapters of years of railroad

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life as fireman, years of service as an of-
ficer of New Jersey troops in the Civil War,
and also years of service as a member of
the police force of Newark. He emerged
from these fierce trials of physical and
nmral courage unscathed, and with honor
untarnished was advanced to the post he
tilled with further distinction for so many
years, that of superintendent of the Home
for Disabled Soldiers at Keamy, New Jer-
sey. As a boy he learned the trade of silver
plating. At the age of nineteen he became
a locomotive fireman; and from April, 1861,
until June, 1865, was numbered among the
gallant Jerseymen who on the field of bat-
tle won honor and fame for themselves
and their State. Then as an officer of the
peace and as chief of the police department
of the city of Newark, he rendered the
highest service, beginning in 1878 his long
term as superintendent of the Soldiers'
Home, that ended in 1911. But his official
connection with the Home did not end, his
service as member of the board of man-
agers continuing until his death in iQtS-

Although nearing his seventy-ninth year,
until stricken with fatal illness two weeks
prior to his death, he was working on re-
ports to be made at the annual encampment
of veterans to be held in Washington in
September, 1915, when he expected to be
present in his official capacity as aide-de-
camp and assistant inspector-general. Among
the soldiers of New Jersey who served in
wars of the past and in the National Guard
of New Jersey, few men were so well or
so favorably known as Major Rogers. Him-
self a gallant soldier, he had a personal
sympathy with all who wore the blue, and
as superintendent of the Home he endeared
himself to the soldiers and their friends by
his wise and businesslike administration.
His rank of major was by brevet, his gal-
lantry as captain when leading his men in
frequent assaults at Petersburg and else-
where winning him the honor. His career
as lieutenant, captain, and chief of the
Newark police force was highly creditable,

and was terminated when the demands of
politics and politicians prevailed. But what
the city lost the State gained, and as su-
perintendent of the Soldiers' Home for
thirty-two years his service was invaluable.

Major Rogers was of English and Scotch
parentage. His father, Peter Jones Rogers,
was born in London, England ; his mother,
Elizabeth McEwen, in Paisley, Scotland.
They were married in Glasgow, Scotland,
and in 1843 came to the LTnited States,
bringing their children, a son, Peter F., and
two daughters. They spent two years in
New York City, then moved to Newark,
New Jersey, where the mother died in 1849.
The father later went west with the colony
that founded the town of Greeley, Colorado,
and there died in 1887.

Peter F. Rogers was born in Glasgow,
Scotland, October 20, 1836, and died at his
residence, No. 15 Seeley avenue, Arlington,
New Jersey, May 8, 1915, aged seventy-
eight years, six months, eighteen days. He
was seven years of age when brought to
New York by his parents, and nine years
of age when they located in Newark, where
he acquired his education in the public
schools. His school life terminated at the
age of fourteen, and his life as a wage earn-
er then began. He worked at silver plating
until he was nineteen years of age, as ap-
prentice and journeyman, and then secured
employment with the Morris and Essex
Railroad Company. He continued in rail-
road engagements until 1858, part of that
time being spent with the pioneer railroads
of the west. His western experiences, wild
and exciting as they were, did not induce
him to permanent residence, and leaving
railroad employ he located in Morristown,
New Jersey, then in Somerville, New Jer-
sey, working at his trade of silver plating
in both places.

When "war's alarums" roused the north,
Major Rogers entered heartily into the fray,
and after recruiting a company of volunteers
was chosen its captain. The company was
recruited in April, 1861, sworn into service

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as Company G, Third Regiment New Jer-
sey Volunteer Infantry, on May 29, 1861,
and was sent to the front. He served in
the First Brigade, Fourth Division, Army
of Northeastern Virginia, from July, 1861 ;
Kearny's Brigade, Franklin's Division,
Army of the Potomac, from August, 1861 ;
was at the battle of Bull Run, Virginia,
July 21, 1861 ; in the action at Cloud's
Mills, August 29 ; and at Springfield Station,
October 2. Two months after the first bat-
tle of Bull Run, Captain Rogers was taken
seriously ill, was sent to Fairfax Hospital,
and when sufficiently convalescent resigned
on October 26, 1861, being honorably dis-
charged on a surgeon's certificate, and re-
turned home. He was physically incapable
until the spring of 1862, and in August of
that year he again enlisted as a private, then
receiving a commission as second lieutenant
of Company K, Twenty-sixth Regiment
New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, September
ii, 1862, and first lieutenant November 19,

1862. On February 12, 1863, he was com-
missioned captain of Company K, his sev-
eral promotions being awarded for "gallant
and meritorious service on the field of bat-
tle." Captain Rogers served under Generals
Burnside and Hooker in their Rappahan-
nock river campaigns, and with the Twenty-
sixth Regiment was mustered out at the ex-
piration of its term of service, June 27,

1863. He again located in Newark, but
could not long remain inactive while his
country was in peril. He recruited a com-
pany of volunteers, and with it entered the
service as Company E, Thirty-ninth Regi-
ment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, re-
ceiving a captain's commission September
19, 1864. The Thirty-ninth saw hard ser-
vice with the Army of the Potomac, and
again "for gallant and meritorious service"
at the head of troops before Petersburg,
Captain Rogers was brevetted major of
United States Volunteers, to date from
April 2, 1865. He continued in command
of Company E until the close of the war,
and on June 17, 1865, was honorably dis-

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charged, reluming t<> his home in \Yuark.
The Twenty-sixth Regiment New Jersey
Volunteer Infantry was org;mi/ed ami
mustered in September 18, 1862, served in
General Henry S. I'.rigg's provisional com-
mand from September 30, 1862, and in ilie
Second I'.rigade, Second Division, Sixth
Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, from
October 11, iSd_>. With this regiment
Major Rogers \vas on duty in the defence
of Washington, District of Columbia, Sep-
tember 2~ to ,v>. iK<">_>; move.! to Frederick,
Maryland, September 30, thence to Hagers-
town, and remained there until October 31 ;
advanced to New Baltimore, Virginia, Octo-
ber 3i-November 9; marched to Stafford
Court House, November 16-17, and to
White Oak Church, December 4-6. Was
in action at the battle of Fredericksburg,
December 12-15; on duty near Belle Plain
Landing from December 20, 1862, to April
28, 1863; on the "Mud March," January
20-23, 1863 ; operations at Franklin's Cn
ing from April 29 to May 2, 1863; second
battle of Fredericksburg, May 3-4, 1863;
assault and capture of Marye's Heights and
occupation of Fredericksburg, May 3 ; bat-
tle of Salem Church, May 3-4; actions at
Downman's Farm and near Bank's Ford
May 4 ; operations at Franklin's Crossing or
Deep Run Ravine, June 5-10; occupied a
position in the front line of battle across the
Bowling Green road, near the Bernard
House, June 6-7. The regiment moved to
Washington, District of Columbia, June 14-
17, and to Newark, New Jersey, June 19,
being mustered out June 27, 1863.

The regiment with which Major Rogers
saw his last service, the Thirty-ninth New
Jersey Volunteer Infantry, was organized at
Newark, New Jersey, September 23 to Oc-
tober ii, 1864, and served in the First Brig-
ade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps,
Army of the Potomac, from October, 1864.
Its service follows : Companies E, F, G, H,
and K left the State on October 4 ; Company
D, October 9 ; Companies B and I, October
10 ; Companies A and C, with field and staff,

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October 14, 1864. The first five companies
reported to Benham's Engineer Brigade,
Army of the Potomac, October 9, and the
other companies October 17. On fatigue
duty in the defence of City Point, Virginia,
until October 22 ; joined the Army of the
Potomac at Poplar Grove Church, October
23 ; siege operations before Petersburg, Oc-
tober 23, 1864, to April 2, 1865 ; in position
near Hawk's House during the reconnois-
sance in force toward Hatcher's Run, Oc-
tober 27-28, 1864; with the brigade, covered
the withdrawal of the forces by Duncan
road, October 28 ; in the line of defences
near the Pegram House until November 29,
1864 ; posted in the rear of Fort Sedgwick,
November 30, 1864, to February 15, 1865;
reconnoissance to the Nottoway river, coop-
erating with Warren's raid on the Weldon
railroad, December 9-17, 1864; garrison of
Fort Davis until April 2, 1865 ; under arms
near Fort Sedgwick during the night of
April 1-2; led the charge on Fort Mahone,
April 2; capture of Fort Mahone and fall
of Petersburg, April 2 ; pursuit of the ene-
my, April 2-6 ; guard of trains, prisoners,
and on picket duty at Burkeville Junction,
April 6-9 ; duty at Farmville until April 20 ;
moved to Alexandria, April 20-28. Partici-
pating in the Grand Review at Washington
on May 23, the regiment was mustered out
on June 17, 1865.

After his return to private life, Major
Rogers was in 1867 appointed to a lieuten-
ancy on the Newark police force. In 1869 he
was promoted captain, but in 1870 a polit-
ical change gave the city to the opposition
party, and Major Rogers retired from the
police force, shortly afterward being ap-
pointed street commissioner and holding
that office until another political upheaval
restored him to the police force as its chief.
He served as chief of police during 1873
and 1874, then, with many others, was for
political reasons retired.

The most important and longest continued
public service rendered by Major Rogers be-
gan October 31, 1878, with his appointment

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as superintendent of the New Jersey Home
for Disabled Soldiers, at Kearny. He en-
deared himself to the many occupants of the
Home who during his more than thirty-two
years as superintendent were directly under
his care, and when in 1911 ill health de-
manded that he retire, deep and genuine was
the sorrow of all connected with the home.
The years of 1911 to his death in May,
1915, were spent by Major Rogers practi-
cally retired, although as a member of the
board of managers of the Soldiers' Home
he retained the liveliest interest in the men
whom so long he had served as chief. He
was one of the charter members of Lincoln
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and the
last survivor of the band of veterans who
signed the original charter of that post.
Later he was one of the leading spirits in
the organization of Marcus L. Ward Post,
and fully expected to represent that post at
Washington, District of Columbia, in Sep-
tember, 1915, in celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the disbanding of the LTnion
army, and again to march proudly up Penn-
sylvania avenue with the few survivors of
his old command. He was preparing, when
stricken with his fatal illness, papers and
reports for the national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and had al-
ready received an appointment at aide-de-
camp and assistant inspector -general of the
encampment. Most worthy of preservation
in a record of Major Rogers' life are the
following resolutions :

New Jersey Home for Disabled Soldiers:

Whereas for the past thirty-three years Major
Peter F. Rogers has been Superintendent of the
New Jersey Home for Disabled Soldiers and by
his kindness, probity and the careful and exact
discharge of his duty and the paternal treat-
ment of the Veterans under his care he has
merited and earned the affection, good will and
respect of each and every Veteran of said Home;
therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Veterans of the New Jer-
sey Home for Disabled Soldiers aforesaid here-
by express their profound sorrow at his re-
linquishment of the office he has so long and
ably filled, feeling that they have lost a kind,

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conscientious, and sympathetic friend, and they
sincerely pray that his future years may be long,
prosperous, and happy.

Resolved, That as a further appreciation of
his services these resolutions be suitably engrossed
and presented to Major Peter F. Rogers.

Kearny, N. J., Feb. 16, 191 1.

Major Rogers was a man universally loved
and respected, and had a wide circle of
friends and acquaintances. He was hon-
ored for his sterling character, and attracted
men by his kindly heart, genial disposition,
and unfailing charity. He was broad-mind-
ed and liberal in his views, holding the re-
spect even of his opponents. His ability as
an executive was severely tested in the vari-
ous important positions he held, and, wheth-
er in camp or on the field of battle, as police
lieutenant, captain, or chief, or as superin-
tendent or manager of the Kearny Home,
he was never found wanting in any of the
qualities that constitute the efficient, honor-
able soldier, the official, or the man. His
funeral was largely attended, officials, com-
rades and friends vying in their last marks
of respect for their friend, comrade, and as-
sociate.

He was laid to rest in the family
burial plot at Hanover, Morris county, New
Jersey, the Rev. John D. Ferguson, chaplain
of the Soldiers' Home, conducting the fun-
eral services.

Major Rogers married, in 18(0, in New-
ark. Nancy Osborn Ball, daughter of Alex-
ander and Charlotte Ball, of Hanover, New
Jersey. Children, all living: Frank Morris,
Virginia B., Charlotte E.. and Aimee L., the
last named the wife of George Smith, Jr.,
of Kearny.

HINCHLIFFE, John,

Fire Mayor of Paterson.

The late John Hinchliffe was prominently
connected with the business and public life
of Paterson, New Jersey, was pre-eminently
a man of affairs, and one who wielded a
wide and beneficial influence. His business
capacity placed him in the foremost rank

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•'""""« tlu' successful men of the day and
In- was, moreover, one of the \\,,rld'.s u,,, k
ers whose labors arc atlcnded with results
l>«lh fur individual prosperity and f,,r pub-
lic go.,,1. Not so abnormally developed in
any one direction as to be a genius, his was
a well rounded character. I I, relations with
Ins fellow men, the course In- foil,, wed in
his business life, the work that he did for
the amelioration of hard conditions for the
iiiilortniiate and for the adoption of pro-
gressive measures along lines of intellectual
and moral advancement, constituted a prac-
tical solution of the great sociological, econ-
omic and labor problems which are charac-
teristic of the age.

Mayor John IlinchlitTe was born in Xew
York City, May 19, 1850, and died at St.
Augustine, Florida, March 18, 1915, after
an illness of about one year's duration. At
the age of one year he was taken to Pater-
son, New Jersey, by his parents, and that
city was his home from that time forth. A
part of his education was acquired in the
public schools of Paterson, and another
part at King James Grammar School in
Yorkshire, England, where his father had
been born. In business, Mayor Hinchliffe
had followed the avocation of a brewer of
ale and beer. He was associated with his
brothers, William and James, and with them
conducted the Hinchliffe Brewing Company,
which had been established by their father.
Mayor Hinchliffe was also president of the
Paterson Brewing and Malting Company,
and of the Empire State Granite Com-
pany. He was associated with a number of
other business enterprises, among them be-
ing his holding of extensive trolley interests
on Staten Island, New York, and a big
summer resort on the south shore of that
island ; and zinc prospecting at Franklin
Furnace, in Sussex county. He was a mem-
ber of the Paterson Lodge, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks ; Knights of Col-
umbus ; and Hamilton Club, of Paterson.

Mr. Hinchliffe married (first) Julia
Greenhalgh, who died about 1887. He mar-

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riecl (second) in 1890, Mary A. Master-
son, of New York City, who survives him
with a son, John D., who was graduated
from Princeton University in the class of
1913; an only daughter, Julia, died recently.
But it is as a public official that the name
of Mayor Hinchliffe will be best known to
posterity. From the time of his first elec-
tion to public office, when he was barely
twenty-five years of age, he has been prom-
inently identified with public affairs. He
was a member of the Board of Education
from 1875 to 1877 ; a commissioner of taxes
and assessments for two terms, from 1877
to 1 88 1, and was president of this board
during his last term. He was elected to the
State Senate in 1891 by a plurality of 112
over Eugene Emley, Republican. The Sen-
ator was mayor of the city of Paterson for
three successive terms, from 1897 to De-
cember 31, 1903, inclusive, six and one-half
years altogether. He was mayor during
the fire and floods of 1902 and 1903. He
suspended the chief of police during the
riots of 1902, and took command of the
police force himself, placing the city under
martial law and restoring peace and quiet.
He refused outside aid during the fire, and
his slogan, "Paterson can take care of her
own," has been echoed and reechoed
throughout the civilized world. He served
as a member of the State Sewerage Com-
mission from 1899 to 1902, and was treas-
urer of that body until he resigned his mem-
bership. He was again elected to the State
Senate in 1906, by a plurality of 4,348 over
Wood McKee, Republican, it being the larg-
est ever given a Democratic candidate for
any office in Passaic county. In that year
he served on the committees on clergy, labor
and industry, municipal corporations, sta-
tionery and incidental expenses, Federal re-
lations, and Sanatorium for Tuberculous
Diseases. John Hinchliffe, as a member
of the Legislature, was largely responsible
for giving to Paterson its present form of
appointive commission government. He ac-
complished this under fierce opposition from

the advocates of the old board of aldermen
system.

LTpon the ruins of flame-ridden Paterson
one man mounted to a high eminence of
fame. When the story of the terrible sweep
of wind and fire that wrought devastation
on all that was best and fairest in the Lyons
of America was told, Mayor John Hinch-
liffe was installed in the minds of the Amer-
ican people as the man of the hour in Pat-
erson. Out of that night and day of awful
terror and rending suspense, this man, who
had retired to his home Saturday night little
more than an ordinary citizen of an ordinary
city, emerged with many laurels upon his
singed and grimy brow.

The Paterson fire will live in the mem-
ory of man as one of the great conflagra-
tions of a century. Involving as it did a loss
of millions of dollars, the utter destruction
of the finest municipal and commercial
homes of the city, and transforming with its
fiery breath hundreds of dwellings into
ashes and ruins, the fiend of flame did not
require any human holocaust, though it be-
gan its mad feast of destruction in the dead
hour of midnight, a thing remarkable in it-
self. One hundred thousand persons were
appalled witnesses of that monstrous con-
flagration. Most of them stood mute and
helpless and watched the work of destruc-
tion.

It was by the very contrast of his atti-
tude with the general helplessness that John
Hinchliffe won his fame. Dismayed, but
undaunted, by the magnitude of the attack
upon the life and being of the city, he began
to fight for preservation with his first wak-
ing instinct, and although wounded, bleed-
ing and sore, this indefatigable man fought
on, never pausing even to refreshen his wan-
ing vigor with food or stimulant ; com-
manding when commands were necessary,
exhorting and pleading when prayers were
most efficacious ; urging on the heroes who
were aiding him in the fight, even when the
smoke and dirt so begrimed his countenance
as to make him a grewsome sight indeed.

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And it was only after the conflagration was
over, and the tired firemen had quenched
the last sullen lick of flame, that John
Hinchliffe's thoughts turned upon himself,
and he deigned to give consideration to the
fact that he was fatigued to the extremity
of human endurance, that his clothing was
caked with mud and soaked with water, and
that his flesh had been torn and bruised in
the savage ordeal through which he had
passed. A hundred tales are told of the
prodigious feats performed by Mayor
Hinchliffe during the progress of the fire.
He not only aided the firemen in their ef-
forts, but whenever the emergency demand-
ed a directing influence he did not hesitate
to assume command. His advice to the fire-
men was at all times heeded, because vet-
erans of many a "smoke-eating" experience
say it was always good. It was by his ad-
vice that outside help was asked when the
full realization of the danger dawned upon
the people.

When the fire had been conquered the
Mayor's thoughts were not of himself and
his own comfort, but of the hundreds of his
people who had lost home and property. He
was the leading spirit in the taking of meas-
ures for the relief of the distressed.
Through his instrumentality churches were
thrown open as asylums and the city armory
was converted into a temporary hospital for
the shelter and care of many who were
homeless. It was not until every needy per-
son was housed and food and clothing sup-
plied to meet the immediate wants of the
sufferers, that Mayor Hinchliffe thought of
his own needs, and then only after remain-
ing on duty for nearly twenty hours, did
he consent to retire to his own home to
snatch a few hours' rest to fortify him for
the equally trying ordeal of the morrow. Be-
fore he retired, however, Mayor Hinchliffe
sounded the note proclaiming to the world
the spirit of patriotism and independence
which was to call forth words of praise.
Offers of relief from neighboring cities
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done. The people were bereft and, in the
language of their mayor himself, Paterson
was transformed into a "city of poverty."
But the thought of accepting the aid so kind-
ly offered did not for one instant enter the
mind of Mayor Hinchliffe. "Paterson has
suffered grievously," said this mayor, "she
is very grateful to the many who have dis-
played such magnificent sympathy, but Pat-
erson can and will take care of itself."

So not a dollar of money nor contribu-
tions of any kind were accepted, save that
which was contributed by the citixens and
business men of the stricken city. The at-
titude of the Mayor awakened all the spirit
of pride in his people. They ratified his
stoical rejection of the extended hand of
charity and said with him "Paterson is
grateful, but will take care of herself." It
was this spirit of pride, independence and
self-reliance in the very darkest hour of her
history that attracted the attention of the
nation to Paterson. It was a unique pic-
ture and a display of fine spirit that has
rarely been equalled, and it was due to the
unyielding attitude of Mayor Hinchliffe that
Paterson has maintained her position. That
Mayor Hinchliffe undertook a most serious
task when he turned away, in the name of
Paterson, the thousands of dollars that were
offered in contributions, none will deny. It
was not believed that he could maintain this
attitude, and predictions were made that he
would recede and consent to accept outside
aid. Even the people of Paterson appealed
to the Mayor to consent to receive such con-
tributions of money as were made unsolicit-
ed. The request was made by a delegation
sent to the Mayor from the Central Relief
Committee. But even to the official plead-
ers he turned an unwilling ear, and to their
importunities said : "No, we will not accept
a penny from abroad. Paterson can and
will rehabilitate herself." All through the
trying week, the most crucial period in
Paterson's history, Mayor Hinchliffe proved
himself to be a natural leader of his fellow
men. He displayed fine judgment, ready

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wit and sound sense in coping with every
emergency that arose. He seemed to de-
velop in this situation more than at any
previous time in an extended public career,
the faculty of performing good acts in a
way that fitted him in his public capacity,
yet attracted all men strongly to him.

John Hinchliffe, like all men who have
passed through many political battles, had
gained enemies for himself, not personal
foes, but those that come as a natural con-
sequence of the strifes of politics. It is a
part of the stock in trade of such men to
belittle the influences for good exerted by
the object of their enmity and hate. But
in this emergency the testimony of Hinch-
liffe's enemies to the magnificent manner
in which he first fought to save his city
from total effacement and later bravely in-
augurated the work of upbuilding, has not
been one whit less enthusiastic than that
of his dearest friends. Those who knew
John Hinchliffe from his childhood say
that his achievements of the week of the
fire were the inevitable consequences of
the opportunity that came to him. He had
always displayed a strenuous vigor and a
most marked individuality. He had always
been noted for his love for a fight. From
the time when, as a rugged boy, the product
of city life, he contended with his playmates
over a game of marbles, up to the hour when
he undertook his now famous defense of his
city against the annihilating efforts of the
elements, John Hinchliffe had been self-
assertive, disputatious and vigorous in all
that he undertook. As a boy he led in the
wholesome sports that all boys love ; as a
young man he retained his love for violent
exercise and excelled his fellows with the
ball and bat. Later on, when he took to
politics as naturally as a duck takes to
water, he exemplified the spirit of his earlier
days in the exciting conflicts that his po-
litical affiliations engendered and he was
never known to acknowledge that such an
emergency as defeat could ever come to
him.

DUNLOP, John,

M;iinif:i< tin <-r. Financier.

The manufacturing interests of any city
are among its most important assets, and
the men who have been instrumental in in-
troducing industries of this kind should be
given due credit for them. The late John
Dunlop, of Hackensack, New Jersey,
brought with him from his native land of
Scotland, those habits of thrift and industry,
combined with sound, practical business
methods, which are so conducive to the
prosperity of a community.

John Dunlop was the son of George and
Isabella (Waddell) Dunlop, and was born
in Lanarkshire, Scotland, July 15, 1828. His
early years were spent at Partick, Scotland,
where he received his education and, at the
age of nineteen years, he came to America,
and settled in Texas. Being of an adven-
turous and ambitious nature, he was of the
opinion that there were better opportunities
for advancement in that comparatively un-
settled state, than if he remained in the more
crowded eastern section of the Linked
States. At the time of the outbreak of the
Civil War in 1861, Mr. Dunlop was engaged
in business on the main Plaza in San An-
tonio, Texas, and went over the borders
into Mexico to escape being impressed as
a Confederate soldier. He was obliged to
leave his young wife and infant daughter
and cross the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass.
Later he was joined by his family at Pedras
Negres, and they proceeded to Monterey
and from thence to Matamoras. Mr. Pierce,
the American consul at that city, made Mr.
Dunlop the bearer of dispatches to Presi-
dent Lincoln in Washington, District of
Columbia. He had a personal interview with
President Lincoln, who paid close attention
to Mr. Dunlop's recital of the conditions
in Texas, and, at a conference which was
called, the question of sending an army
down there was freely discussed. Mr. Dun-
lop volunteered his services to accompany
this army in case it was sent, and, while

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awaiting developments, settled in Paterson,
New Jersey, and there purchased a large
amount of property, a portion of which is
the present site of the Paterson city sta-
tion of the New York, Susquehanna \
Western railroad. He did not return to
Texas, as the troops were not sent there,
and in 1864 he engaged in the silk busi-
ness with William S. Malcolm. Both young
men were novices in this line, the parents
of Mr. Dunlop having been engaged in ship
building in Scotland, and Mr. Malcolm hav-
ing had experience only in the manufac-
ture of cotton textiles. Mr. Dunlop furnish-
ed two-thirds of the necessary capital, and
Mr. Malcolm one-third, the firm being
known as Dunlop & Malcolm, and their
place of business, which was located at
Straight and Morton streets, was known as
the Union Silk Works. At the commence-
ment of this enterprise they employed about
eighty hands but this number has been
rapidly and steadily increased until at the
present time they have several hundreds of
hands in the mills. Upon the death of Mr.
Malcolm, Mr. Dunlop purchased his inter-
est, and thereafter had sole control of this
industry. In 1888 he started another fac-
tory in Spring Valley. The Paterson mills
were completely destroyed by fire in 1890
and, while they were rebuilt, Mr. Dunlop
did not again operate them, but rented them
to others. He retired from the heavy re-
sponsibilities of business life in 1891. and
his sons, George. J. Donald, and Beveridge,
carry on the Spring Valley plant, known
now as that of John Dunlop's Sons.

Mr. Dunlop married, May 28, 1860,
Jeannie, a daughter of Thomas and Ellen
(Hastie) Beveridge, of Oneida county,
New York. They had children : Jean, de-
ceased ; George, married Miss Bacon, of
Victor, New York ; Agnes, married Fred-
erick W. Cooke, of Paterson, New Jersey ;
J. Donald, married Effie Smith, of Spring
Valley; Helen, married Rev. Albert Bacon,
of Niagara Falls ; Janet, married Dr. A. S.
Corwin, of Rye, New York; Beveridge.

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married Miss Anna Marvin; Elsie, married
J. II. LoniMiiaid, of Montana : and J.

P.y the death of Mr. Dunlop, which OC
curred I lecemher ii. 11)07. l)u sine .1 well
as social circles were deeply alliit<.l He
had been a director in many hanks and a
number of other institutions, and th. !
his wise counsel was a heavy blow. Ili^
eliiel pastimes were curling and hunting,
and he was a member of the Ivanhoe (. url-
ing Club of Paid-sou, and of the Si. An-
drew's Club. His charities were numerous
and so unostentatiously In-stowed, that their
full extent is only known by the happy re-
cipients of his bounty.

BROWNING, John Hull,

Financier and Manufacturer.

John Hull Browning was descended from
Anglo-Saxon ancestors through a long line
resident in New England, and typified those
qualities of industrious application, sound
judgment and energy which conquered a
wilderness upon our New England coast, at
the same time conquering savage foes, and
established firmly a modern civilization. The
oldest form of the name bears the German
spelling Bruning, and it later came to be
rendered in various ways. According to
the poet, Robert Browning, the earliest
form of the name was de Bruni, which was
the Norman-French name of one of the an-
cient German tribes which inhabited the
shores of the Baltic Sea, in Northern Ger-
many. In high German the form of the
name is Brauning. The Brunings are sup-
posed to have migrated from Germany to
England, where the Anglo-Saxons changed
the spelling to Browning, to suit their own
tongue. The termination "ing" in the Ger-
man language means a meadow or low pas-
tureland, and hence the origin of the name
a< applied to inhabitants of the low mead-
ows.

Nathaniel Browning, son of Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Browning, was born in London ah"iit
1618, and died at Portsmouth, Rhode Is-

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land, when about fifty-two years old. Mrs.
Browning and her husband appear to have
been non-conformists, and the persecution
that followed them was probably the cause
which led Nathaniel Browning to embark
for America soon after he came of age, in
the year 1640. Landing at Boston, he pro-
ceeded to Portsmouth, where he was made
a freeman in 1654. This means that he was
of good standing in the church, and that he
was eligible to participate in the councils
and government of the colony. He married,
about 1650, Sarah, second daughter of Wil-
liam and Mary Freeborn, who sailed from
Ipswich, England, in 1634.

Their son, William Browning, born about
1651, at Portsmouth, lived to be nearly
eighty years of age, a farmer at North
Kingston, Rhode Island. He was made
freeman in 1684, and was twice married
(first) in 1687 to Rebecca, daughter of Sam-
uel and Hannah (Porter) Wilbur, grand-
daughter of Samuel Wilbur and John Por-
ter, both of whom were original settlers at
Portsmouth. His second wife's name was
Sarah.

John Browning, youngest son of William
and Rebecca (Wilbur) Browning, was born
March 4, 1696, at South Kingston, Rhode
Island, and died in 1777, at Exeter, same
State, in his eighty-first year. He was made
a freeman in 1744, and was a farmer, resid-
ing near the coast in South Kingston, where
he had large landed possessions. He mar-
ried, April 21, 1721, Ann, daughter of Jer-
emiah and Sarah (Smith) Hazard, grand-
daughter of Thomas Hazard, the immigrant
progenitor of a notable American family.

Thomas Browning, the eldest son of the
above marriage, born in 1722, in Kingston,
died there in 1770. During his active life
he was a farmer in Hopkinton, Rhode Is-
land, and was made a freeman in 1742. Like
his parents, he was a Quaker, served as jus-
tice of the peace at Little Compton, and was
captain of the local militia company. His
first wife, Mary, was a daughter of William
and Mary (Wilkinson) Browning, and they

were the parents of William Thomas
Browning, born May n, 1765, in South
Kingston. He was a farmer in Preston,
Connecticut, where he built a farm house,
standing half in Preston and half in North
Stonington, which is still standing in good
preservation. He married Catherine, daugh-
ter of Robert and Catherine (Guinedeau)
Morey, of Newport, Rhode Island. Their
fifth son, John Hazard Browning, was born
July 28, 1801, at the Browning homestead
in Preston, where he was reared. He be-
came a merchant in Milltown, Connecticut,
and later in New London. In 1833 he mov-
ed to New York City, and engaged in the
dry goods business, at the corner of Fulton
and Water streets, as senior member of the
firm of Browning & Hull. This business
was greatly extended, and in 1849 was clos-
ed out, and in association with two others,
Mr. Browning engaged in the general mer-
chandise trade in California, his partners
removing thither. Mr. Browning remained
in New York, where he manufactured and
purchased goods which were shipped to Cal-
ifornia for sale. Three times the store was
burned, without insurance, resulting in a
total loss. In 1857, Mr. Browning with-
drew from all activity, except as a special
partner with his son, who conducted a cloth-
ing store under the firm name of Hanford
& Browning. This subsequently became
Browning, King & Company, which now
has stores in the principal cities of the
LTnited States. Mr. Browning married,
September 21, 1829, Eliza Smith Hull, of
Stonington, daughter of Col. John W. and
Elizabeth (Smith) Hull, and they were the
parents of four sons and a daughter.

The Hull family is also of ancient origin,
and springs from Rev. Joseph Hull, who
was born in Somersetshire, England, about
1594, and was rector of Northleigh, Devon-
shire, England, about fourteen years. With
his wife, Agnes, he embarked for America
in 1635, and shortly became pastor of the
church at Weymouth, Massachusetts. He
was prominent in local affairs, and presided

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over several churches in Massachusetts, and
subsequently, for nine years, at York,
Maine. After ten years in Europe he be-
came pastor at Dover, New Hampshire,
where he died. He was the father of Capt.
Tristram Hull, born in England, in 1626,
who joined the Society of Friends, and resid-
ed at Yarmouth and Barnstable, Massachu-
setts. His son, Joseph Hull, born at Barn-
stable, 1652, was governor's assistant in
Rhode Island four years, and suffered much
persecution because of his affiliation with the
Friends, in which society he became a minis-
ter. His son, Tristram Hull, lived in Wes-
terly, Rhode Island, and was the father of
Stephen Hull, whose son, Latham Hull, died
in North Stonington, Connecticut. His son,
John W. Hull, resided in that town, and
was a colonel of the local militia. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Smith, of Waterford, Con-
necticut, and they were the parents of Eliza
Smith Hull, born May 26, 1812, died April
21, 1875. She was married, September 21,
1829, to John Hazard Browning, and be-
came the mother of John Hull Browning,
of further mention below.

John Hull Browning, youngest child of
john Hazard and Eliza Smith (Hull)
Browning, was born December 25, 1841, in
Orange, New Jersey, where the family has
been for some time established. After pur-
suing a course in the New York Academy,
he embarked upon a business career in his
twentieth year, entering the wholesale cloth-
ing firm of William C. Browning & Com-
pany, which business was very successful,
and John Hull Browning ultimately be-
came interested in various financial and
business enterprises. Soon after 1883 he
succeeded the late Charles G. Sisson as
president of the Northern Railroad of New
Jersey, which position he occupied twenty-
two years. He was secretary and treasurer
of the East & West railroad of Alabama,
and for twenty years was president of the
Richmond County Gas Company, in what
is now Greater New York. For some time
he was treasurer of the Cherokee Iron Com-

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"f tVdartown, Georgia, and he \va> a
director in the Citizens' National Hank of
Englewood, New Jersey. Mr. Browning
made his home in New York City, but main-
tained an attractive summer home at Ten-
afly, New Jersey. I !<• was deeply interested
in organized charitable work, both in New
York and New Jersey, and in association
with his wife erected a fresh air children's
home at Tenafly. While he was essentially
a business man, a director in many profitable
enterprises, Mr. Browning always had time
for a reasonable amount of recreation, and
devoted much thought and care to benevo-
lent work in the interest of mankind in
general. He died suddenly in the Erie
ferryhouse at the foot of Chambers street,
New York, October 26, 1914. He married,
October 19, 1871, Eva B. Sisson, daughter
of Charles Grandison and Mary Elizabeth
(Garrabrant) Sisson. Mr. Sisson was a
projector, contractor and railroad president,
one of the most useful citizens of New Jer-
sey during more than a quarter of a cen-
tury's residence in that state. He was a
grandson of William Sisson, one of five
brothers, from Soissons, in Normandy,
France, all of whom settled in Rhode Island,
a majority of them participating in the
American Revolution. One, Nathan Sisson,
endured terrible hardships on board British
prison ships in New York harbor. Major
Gilbert Sisson, son of William, was a native
of North Stonington, Connecticut, where
he was a merchant, and married Desire
Maine, a woman of unusual talent, the sev-
enth daughter of a large family, of French
descent. They were the parents of Charles
G. Sisson.

Mr. and Mrs. John Hull Browning were
the parents of a son, John Hull Browning,
born October 6, 1874.

OBERLY, Rev. Dr. Henry Harrison,

Clergyman, litterateur.

The influence of a beloved and revered
pastor remains longer perhaps in any com-

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munity than that of any other type of man.
One of the most beneficent of these; and one
whose saintliness was known to all, whether
or not they were of his parish, was the Rev.
Dr. Henry Harrison Oberly, rector of Christ
Episcopal Church, in Elizabeth, New Jer-
sey. A man of the most unaffected and
beautiful piety, his sway over the people
of his time was that due to the involuntary
homage of the human mind towards an ideal
of holiness and benevolence. The memory
of such a man lingers long among those
who have even indirectly known him, and
leaves a strong, if mute, appeal for nobler
and purer living.

Rev. Dr. Oberly was born in Easton,
Pennsylvania, June 19, 1841, a son of Ben-
jamin and Anne Elizabeth (Yard) Oberly,
and a descendant of a Swiss family which
has been resident there for almost two cen-
turies. After passing through the grammar
and high schools of his native town, he at-
tended in succession Racine College, Ra-
cine. Wisconsin ; Trinity College, at Hart-
ford, Connecticut ; and the Berkeley Divin-
ity School, at Middletown, Connecticut. He
was graduated from the two last named in-
stitutions, Trinity College conferring upon
him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in
1899. He was ordained deacon while at
Berkeley School, and ordained to the priest-
hood of the Protestant Episcopal Church
by Bishop Potter, while serving his diacon-
ate at Trinity Church, New York. His first
rectorship was the parish of Holy Cross,
Warren >1 >u rg. New York, where he remain-
ed three years. For another year he was
rector at Cherry Valley, New York, then
for five years rector of Trinity Church at
Wesi froy, \Tew York. He was appointed
to the rectorship of Christ Church, Eliza-
beth, New Jersey, June i, 1879, there hav-
ing been but two rectors preceding him here
— Rev. Stevens Parker, D. D., from 1863
to 1879, and the first rector, Rev. E. A
Hoffman. D. D., from 1853 to 1863.

Dr. Oberly was an earnest worker in

whatever he undertook. He was elected
deputy from this diocese to the General
Triennial Conventions of 1901, 1904 and
1910, serving on several important commit-
tees on both conventions. He was a mem-
ber of the Clerical Union, and of the Church
Congress, serving as a member of the exe-
cutive committee. For many years he was
the leading spirit in the Charity Organiza-
tion Society in Elizabeth, having been one
of the incorporators in 1903. He was a
member of the executive board as well as
chairman of the case committee, but for
more than a year prior to his death, he had
been obliged to abandon his activities in this
direction. Many improvements were made
in and around the church during his incum-
bency, one of them being the erection of the
parish hall in East Scott Place. He main-
tained the surpliced choir for men and boys
which had been organized by his predeces-
sor ; and instituted the choir festival which
was held once a year ; and also instituted the
Guild of St. Paul.

Dr. Oberly was a Republican in his polit-
ical opinions ; was a member of Beta Beta
Chapter of Psi Upsilon fraternity, and of
the Psi Upsilon Club of New York City.
His literary ability was of a very high or-
der, his published works, "Testimony of the
Prayer Book to the Continuity of the
Church," a "Catechism." in four parts, and
many articles for newspapers and maga-
zines, sacred and secular. Four years prior
to his death Dr. Oberly underwent a serious
operation in a hospital in New York City.
Only a short time previously, while return-
ing with his wife from a trip to Italy and
Switzerland, they were wrecked on the voy-
age, losing all their baggage, as did most of
the other passengers. Dr. Oberly married,
in Trinity Church, New York, October 2,
1871, Jane Averell, only daughter of Theo-
dore T. S. and Jane Webb (Averell) Laid-
ley, the former a colonel of ordnance, in the
United States army. This article can find
no better close than a few extracts from

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what was said of Dr. Oberly at the time of
his death by eminent men who knew him
personally.

The Rev. Lytleton E. Hubard, rector of
St. John's Church, said that while he had
known Dr. Oberly only a few months. In-
had frequently seen him. and found him to
be a most helpful man. He was sympathet-
ic and understanding, and was of unusual
ability and refinement. He understood the
mission of the church, and was a guide and
a teacher. His life and works have made
a lasting impression, and the community has
lost a friend.

The Rev. J. Frederick Virgin, rector of
Grace Church, declared that Dr. Oberly oc-
cupied a position of prominence in the Epis-
copal church. In the diocesan conventions
his opinions always carried weight ; he had
great influence in the church, and he was
noted for his strong personality and church-
manship.

Rev. Winfield S. Baer, rector of Trinity
Church, said in part: "I deeply regret the
loss of my fellow worker, Dr. Oberly. His
passing away is a loss to the diocese as well
as to the parish and community. He was
highly respected by his brethren in the clergy
and was a man of influence in the councils
of the diocese. His loss will be deeply felt.
The members of his own parish can best
testify to the work of his manhood, but no
one can tell the good work he has done in
the thirty-five years of faithful, devoted
service as rector of Christ Church."

Howard T. Scheckler, superintendent of
the Rescue Mission, declared that Dr. Ober-
ly would be more missed in the future than
can be realized at the present time because
of his charity and kindly feeling toward the
people of the city. He took a great interest
in the work of the Mission.

From his brethren also comes the follow-
ing extract from the minutes of the execu-
tive committee of the Church Congress.

New York, May 4, 1914.

The Executive Committee of the Church Con-
gress desires to place on record some expres-
lion of the great sense of loss which has be-

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fallen us in the death of <mr belo I and

i "Meague, llic Reverend I k-nry Hani on '
ly. I). I). hi tin- lahois win. !i h. -li.,i. il with
us, hi- vvus uniformly active, faithful ami
si H ntious as in all the other poinl at which he
t'.iiehed the lite ot the Cliiirrli. \lwavs -.land-
ing unflinchingly for the truth a-, he saw it. In-
was nevertheless one of the broade t minded and

most tolerant of men. As a rriln keen

and inrisue. yet always sympathetic. A man of
wide reading he was able to givi on to

them that asked for the faith that was in him,
but the charm of his personality, his singular
urbanity and the high standard of spirituality
which he exemplified in his daily walk and con-
versation endeared him to th'.-e whose ..pinions
were most widely divergent, as well as to those
who saw with him, eye to ' ye Ilis great life work
was his rectorship of Christ Church, Klizabeth,
where for five and thirty years 1,,. had built
upon the foundations of Eugene Augustus Hoff-
mann and Stevens Parker. The fruit fulness of
his abundant labors is manifest in the strength
and vigor of the parish, as well as in the im-
press of his public spirit upon the civic life of
the community which could alway^ depend upon
the help of the clear head and the warm heart of
Doctor Oberly. His absence leaves a wide
in an innermost Congress circle. We are at a
loss to fill his place, for "Me was a man take
him all in all, t shall not look upon his like
again." We shall sorely miss his counsel and his
help, but we sorrow most of all, because we shall
see his face no more. Singularly full of com-
fort to us as to all who knew and loved him is
the holy assurance. "Blessed are the dead who
die in the Lord for they rest from their labors."

YOUNG, Henry, Sr.,

Brilliant Lawyer, Public Official.

A graduate of Princeton before he was
eighteen yar^ of age, an attorney at the
rirliest possible lawful age of twenty-mil-,
and in receipt of the degree A. M. from
Princeton the >ame year. Assistant I'md-d
States District Attorney at twenty-three,
and counsellor at twenty-four, is the proud
record left by Henry Young. «i Newark.
His subsequent legal career was one of equal
honor while his courtesy, lofty principle, de-
votion to duty, and open hearted kindliness
won him the undying respect and atfecti"ii
of all who knew him.

Henry Young sprang from a Scotch an-

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cestor exiled from his native land for "con-
science sake." His father was Charles E.
Young, his grandfather John Young, a
Newark leather manufacturer and eminent
business man, conceded generally to have
been the first leather manufacturer to estab-
lish in Newark. From such progenitors,
came Henry Young, Sr., and to their vir-
tues and talents, he added his own qualities
of mind, the polish of a university educa-
tion and a charming personality.

Robert Young, founder of the family in
America, was a Scotchman, who settled in
Newark in 1696, with his family and other
of his countrymen. Two of his sons, David
and John, settled in Hanover, Morris coun-
ty, New Jersey. David Young was an or-
dained minister of the Presbyterian church,
married, and left issue. Among his grand-
sons was David Young, the astronomer.
John, the other son of Robert Young "the
founder," died in Hanover in 1783, aged
seventy-three years. Among his descend-
ants was another John Young, founder of
the Newark branch.

John Young, of the fourth American gen-
eration, was born in Hanover, Morris coun-
ty, about 1776, and died in Newark, New
Jersey, February 15, 1854. In 1829 he mov-
ed from Hanover to Newark, where he is
universally credited with having been the
first manufacturer of leather. He was for
years associated with George Dougherty in
the manufacture of Morocco leather, then a
new article of manufacture, and an industry
that has made Newark famous as its chief
seat of manufacture. This firm, if not the
first in leather manufacturing, was first in
the manufacture of Morocco. John Young
while in Morris county, was a member of
the First Presbyterian Church of Morris-
town, and on coming to Newark, joined by
letter, the Third Presbyterian Church of
that city. He married Catherine Tuttle.

Charles E. Young, son of John and Cath-
erine (Tuttle) Young, was born in Whip-
pany, Morris county, New Jersey, February
19. 1816. and died in Newark, in 1898, one

of the most active and enterprising men of
his day. He began business life as a dry
goods merchant, later associating with his
father in leather manufacture. He devel-
oped the business and made their Morocco
department the most important in the city.
He was a potent factor in the organization
of many financial and commercial enter-
prises, including the National State Bank
and the Newark board of trade. He mar-
ried Charlotte Wilbur, daughter of Rodney
and Charlotte (Denman) Wilbur, of New
ark, and maternal granddaughter of Mat-
thias Denman. Dr. Charles Young, eldest
son of Charles E. Young, was one of New-
ark's most eminent physicians and surgeons
for forty years prior to his retirement.

Henry Young, second son of Charles E.
and Charlotte (Wilbur) Young, was born
October 24, 1844, and died at his Newark
home, 1078 Scuth Broad street, March 30,
1908. He early developed rare mental qual-
ities, passing through preparatory schools
and entering Princeton University at the
age of fifteen years, as a member of the
sophomore class. He completed a full
course and was graduated with honor, class
of "62" but his youth prevented his receiv-
ing his degree until arriving at the age of
twenty-one, three years later. After leav-
ing Princeton he prepared for the profes-
sion of law under Frederick Theodore Fre-
linghuysen, of Newark, and at Harvard Law
School. He was admitted to the New Jer-
sey bar as an attorney in 1865 and as coun-
sellor in 1868. In 1867 he was appointed
Assistant LTnited States District Attorney,
and in 1873 was elected city counsel by the
Newark common council. Such was the
value placed upon his legal services by the
city fathers that he served in that office by
successive reappointments until 1884. This
was a period of distrust, defalcation and
partisan dispute in Newark, and fortunate
indeed was the city to have had so efficient
and capable a head of the law department.
He bore himself with such absolute impar-
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ous, that he stood in public estimation as
the most capable counsel the city or State
had ever possessed. From 1884 until 1903
Mr. Young was engaged in private practice
in Newark, but in 1903 he accepted at the
hands of Mayor Doremus, a reappointment
as city counsel. He served until 1904, then
resigned to accept from Governor Murphy,
the position of Prosecutor of Pleas for Es-
sex county. Four years later his earthly
career ended.

Mr. Young was learned in the law, es-
pecially of municipalities and the relation
they bore to New Jersey law. He was
sought for in consultation and his opinions
were of great weight. His high position at
the New Jersey bar was fairly won and un-
disputed by his brethren of the profession,
who acknowledged his intellectual attain-
ment, legal learning and personal graces. He
was a member of many legal bodies, includ-
ing the bar association of his own State and
the Lawyers' Club of Newark. His friends
were many among all classes and at his fun-
eral, the highest men in the State vied with
the lowly to do him honor. Chief Justice
Gummere, Vice Chancellor Emery, Gover-
nor Murphy, Frederick Frelinghuysen, Jay
Newton Van Ness, Oscar Keen, Cortlandt
Parker, Jr., J. O. Pitney and George W.
Hubbell were pall bearers, and in the
thronged North Reformed Church sat many
men distinguished in State and Nation.

Mr. Young was one of the governors of
the Essex Club, and a member of the North
Reformed Church of Newark. In both or-
ganizations he took a deep interest, and in
both he was deeply beloved and highly es-
teemed. His courtesy was unfailing, his
devotion to every duty, supreme, his kindly
friendliness never wanting, and his prin-
ciple, lofty. He was a man of real worth
to his city, a tower of strength as an advo-
cate and a friend who never failed.

Mr. Young married Margaret, daughter
of James K. and Mary (Kellogg) Hitch-
cock, of Utica, New York. Children :
Henry (2), a prominent lawyer of Newark ;

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Stuart Adams, also an honored nn-inlicr of
the Essex county bar; Roger, a business

man of Newark.

ROPES, David Nichols,

Enterprising Citizen, Public Official.

During a career of signal activity and use-
fulness, the late David Nichols Ropes did
much to further the industrial, civic and
economic progress of the State of \\-\v Jer-
sey, and his influence in promoting the var-
ious affairs of the community li^noro! by
his residence was both potent and farreach-
ing. He stood as a type of the steadfast,
honest, honorable and upright business man
and loyal and public spirited citizen, and his
fine intellectual powers materially increased
his usefulness and prestige as one of the
noble workers of the world. The entire
course of his life was dominated by the
same high sense of duty that prompted him
to tender his services in support of all right-
eous causes, and he maintained an inviolable
hold upon the respect and esteem of all who
knew him. A man of firm convictions,
broad minded, keen and distinct individual-
ity, he made his life count for good in all
its relations, and it is most appropriate that
a tribute of some length be paid him in this
memorial volume. He was a descendant of
English and Huguenot stock which can be
traced for a number of generations. Ac-
cording to Burke's "Landed Gentry," the
original spelling of the name was Roope,
and we find the pedigree entered in the Col-
lege of Arms, October n, 1600, as follows:
Arms : Argent, a lion, rampant, per fesse,
gules and vert, between seven pheons, azure.
Crest : A cock pheasant, combed and wat-
tled gules. Motto : Nulla rosa siiu- spinnis.

George Ropes, the immigrant ancestor of
David Nichols Ropes, came to America
prior to 1636, according to the records of the
General Court, in the employ of Mr. Gar-
ford. He was litigant in a lawsuit in 1637.
After his term of indenture with Mr. Gar-
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in 1638 and was to have twenty acres of
land upon his return to America. He was
a carpenter by trade. His wife, Mary, was
admitted to Salem church. .May 15, 1642,
prior to which year he had returned there,
and died in June, 1670, in that town. His
widow died in 1691. Children: George,
Jonathan, Sarah, Mary, John, William, Abi-
gail and Samuel. George was killed in
King Philip's War.

John Ropes, son of George and Mary
Ropes, was baptized at Salem, Massachu-
setts, July 4, 1647. He bought land at
Newbury in 1/02, and later other tracts,
and his son, Nathan, was appointed ad-
ministrator of his estate July 19, 1722. He
married, March 25, 1669, Lydia Wells.
Children, born at Salem : Benjamin, Lydia,
Mary, John, Samuel, Elizabeth and Na-
thaniel.

Samuel Ropes, son of John and Lydia
(Wells) Ropes, was born at Salem, Janu-
ary 24, 1686-87, an<3 died October 12, 1761.
He married, January 12, 1709-10, Lydia
Neal, daughter of Joseph and Judith
(Croad) Neal. Children, born at Salem:
Lydia, Lydia (second), Samuel, Joseph and
Benjamin.

Benjamin Ropes, son of Samuel and Ly-
dia (Neal) Ropes, was born at Salem,
March 22, 1721-22, and died April 20, 1790.
He was a cooper, lived in Salem, and
owned much land there. He was a mem-
ber of Dr. Whittaker's church, afterward
of Dr. Hopkin's church, of which he was
deacon. He married, March 27, 1746, Ruth
Hardy, who died in December, 1/95; she
was a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Pick-
ering) Hardy : great-granddaughter of
Lieutenant John and Alice (Flint) (Bul-
lock) Pickering: and great-great-grand-
daughter of John Pickering, the immigrant
ancestor from England.

Timothy Ropes, son of Benjamin and
Ruth (Hardy) Ropes, was born in Salem,
April 9, 1773. and died February 17, 1848.
He was a cooper and later a master ma-
riner. Together with his brother, Hardy,

he bought the homestead property from
the other heirs for the sum of two thou-
sand dollars, later purchasing Hardy's
share from him for $1,333, and thus be-
came the sole proprietor. He married
Sarah Delhonde, born September 15, 1775,
a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Holmes)
Delhonde. Thomas Delhonde was a prom-
inent physician of Boston in his day. His
father. Dr. John Delhonde, was born in
France, and being of the Protestant de-
nomination, was obliged to flee that coun-
try to avoid religious persecution after the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He emi-
grated to America and made his home in
Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Ropes had several
children.

David Nichols Ropes, son of Timothy
and Sarah (Delhonde) Ropes, was born
in Salem, Massachusetts, December 5,
1814, and died in Orange, New Jersey, July
23, 1889. His education was mainly ac-
quired in the town of his birth, where he
attended the academy and the high school.
He was but sixteen years of age when he
entered upon what proved in the course of
years to be an unusually active business ca-
reer. His first venture was in the crockery
business in Salem, where, in association
with his brother, Timothy, he opened a
small store. Close attention to their bus-
iness enabled them to gain a large amount
of experience, and two years later he with
his brother George went to Portland,
Maine, where in 1832. they became the first
manufacturers of table cutlery in the
United States, the actual work being done
in Saccarappa. Maine. They were the in-
ventors and patentees of American table
knives. LIntil they were burned out some
years later, they carried on this industry
very successfully. After this event. Mr.
Ropes went to Meriden. Connecticut, and
there entered into a business association
with Julius Pratt, the firm operating under
the style of Pratt, Ropes, Webb & Com-
pany, this being the forerunner of the Mer-
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came known throughout the civilized
world. The interests of the company re-
quiring a man of ability in New York City,
Mr. Ropes assumed charge there in 1855.
He became practically interested in the In-
dia Rubber Comb Company about 1862,
was subsequently elected to the vice-presi-
dency, and was one of the largest stock-
holders. After coming to New York for
business reasons, Mr. Ropes selected
Newark as a place of residence, but after
a few months, removed to Orange, New
Jersey, in October, 1855, and lived in that
section until his lamented death. The fol-
lowing spring he bought a house and lo.t at
the corner of High and White streets, en-
larged and improved the house, purchased
a quantity of adjoining land, and made this
dwelling his home until 1888. Some of the
tracts he purchased were on Park avenue,
Washington and Day streets, Valley Road,
and other sections. He opened streets
through the lands he purchased in all direc-
tions, and extended High street to Park
avenue. He made many improvements on
his property, divided it into building lots,
erected attractive houses, and assisted ma-
terially in the development of the Oranges.
The amount he spent in grading his prop-
erty, alone amounted to more than $100,-
ooo. In the matter of transportation facil-
ities he was one of the leading spirits of
the section, and instituted many new ideas.
His property was crossed by the Watch-
ung railroad, which ran through it from
southwest to northeast, and it was distinct-
ly through the personal efforts and the per-
sonal financial support of Mr. Ropes that
this road was constructed. The original
charter had been obtained for a horse rail-
road, but as changing conditions made a
steam road a necessity, a supplement was
added to the charter, enabling the word
horse to be eliminated, and a steam road
was commenced as a branch of the Mont-
clair railroad. This last mentioned com-
pany became bankrupt before the comple-
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with his usual energy and business fore
sight, assumed tin- greater part of the re-
sponsibility of finishing tin- \\.itelmng
l'i:mch. For a long lime the a UldllCl of
this work and its later operation resulted
only in pecuniary loss i,, Mr. Ropes, un-
til it became a feeder for the Erie Road.
In order to secure a right of way for tins
branch it was necessary for him to make
many additional purchases ,,| land, and
these added to the property already in his
possession made him an extensive land
owner. Everything he did was done on a
most generous scale; he graded tin-
streets he cut through, curbed, and often
flagged them, then deeded them to the city.
He sold many of his lots at a profit, and
could have sold many more in the same
manner, had he not added too many re-
strictions in his deeds. During iXu> and
1870, when the values were very high, he
made many of these purchases, and found
it necessary to carry mortgages on a large
quantity of the property. When the panic
of 1873 caused such widespread disaster,
Mr. Ropes was obliged to part with much
of hi's property under foreclosure proceed-
ings, the greater part of his fortune being
lost in this manner. With the little prop-
erty he managed to retain he continued
business for a time in New York, then
opened a real estate office in Orange, and
there disposed of the property he still
owned to the best advantage. In 1877 the
crty of Orange, with a view of obtaining a
supply of water for public use, caused six
driven wells to be opened north of Park
avenue and near the West Orange line,
these being on the property of Mr. Ropes.
The supply of water was apparently inex-
haustible and analysis by Professor Leeds,
of Stevens Institute of Technology, showed
it to be equal to spring water, and free
from all impurities. Mr. Ropes submitted
the matter to the West Orange Township
Committee, October 12, 1887, but this val-
uable and excellent water supply was not
accepted.

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In political belief Mr. Ropes was a strong
Abolitionist, and while a resident of Port-
land, Maine, his house was known as being
one of the stations of the "underground
railroad," used so frequently by the escap-
ing slaves. In 1856 he was one of the origi-
nators of the Republican party in Orange,
and was prominent in the Lincoln campaign.
He was a leading spirit in securing the in-
corporation of the city of Orange, and was
radically opposed to the separation of East
and West Orange from the city proper. In
1864 he was elected mayor of Orange, was
re-elected the following year, and was a
member of the common council as a repre-
sentative from the Second Ward from 1866
to 1872, inclusive. While serving in these
offices he displayed a devotion to the inter-
ests of the community which earned for him
the commendation of political foe as well as
friend. The cause of education always
found in him a warm and strong supporter,
and he was one of the three trustees ap-
pointed under the "Central" School Dis-
trict, in April, 1862, at which time an at-
tempt was made to consolidate all the
schools of the Ashland, Central and St.
Mark's districts into one. His efforts to in-
crease the efficiency of the schools in his
jurisdiction finally resulted in the separa-
tion of West Orange and its erection as a
township. He was one of the founders of
The New England Society, of Orange, and
served as president, vice-president, and
counsellor of this body. His nature was a
strong one, but it was one rather of action
than of words. At an early day he was a
member of the New Church Society (Swed-
enborgian), but at first while living at
Orange he attended the Orange Valley Con-
gregational Church. He was of a generous
and kindly nature, and his charities were
frequent and widespread, but bestowed,
wherever this was possible, in a quiet and
unostentatious manner.

Mr. Ropes married, October 6, 1846,
Lydia L. Bisbee. Mr. and Mrs. Ropes were
the parents of children as follows: i.

Charles Franklin, born December 10, 1847,
died in 1889. He married in California,
and had two children : Eleanor and Ger-
trude. 2. Clara, born 1850, who has also
been president of the Board of Managers
of the East Orange Homeopathic Dispen-
sary, married, in 1874, Professor Charles
Jenkins Prescott, born in 1832, died Sep-
tember 20, 1902, a descendant of James
Prescott, of Hampton Falls, New Hamp-
shire, 1643, who came to this country from
Lincolnshire, England. 3. John Bisbee,
deceased. 4. Albert Barrett, deceased. 5.
Edith, deceased. 6. Arthur Dudley. Mrs.
Prescott has one son : Standish, born in
Orange, April 25, 1875, is in the Engineer-
ing Department of the New York Central
Railroad Company ; he is unmarried and
makes his home with his mother in Orange.

Mrs. Lydia Laurelia (Bisbee) Ropes,
wife of David Nichols Ropes, always a con-
tributor to the various philanthropic in-
stitutions of the Oranges and one of the
founders of many of them, was born in
Hartford, Connecticut, August 10, 1826,
daughter of Rev. John Bisbee, of Plymp-
ton, Massachusetts, who was a lineal de-
scendant of Miles Standish, and also of
John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, and of
his wife, Mercy B. Bisbee, who after the
death of Rev. John Bisbee became the wife
of Captain Daniel Jackson, of Plymouth,
and later she became one of the first woman
physicians of Homeopathy in the United
States.

After the removal of Mr. and Mrs. Ropes
to Orange, New Jersey, in 1855, she at
once became one of the leading workers in
all good movements among the women of
the Oranges. She was one of the fifteen
charter members of the Woman's Club of
Orange, organized in 1872, and it was large-
ly through her personality and those as-
sociated with her that the club grew into its
present usefulness. She occupied the office
of president in the club from 1876 to 1884,
inclusive, and held the confidence and re-
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she did during all the years of her life,
and her administration was one of the most
prosperous. She wrote a history of the
club for the Chicago Exposition covering
the twenty-one years since its organization.
This was most fortunate as immediately
after, all the club papers were destroyed by
fire. She was interested in and supported
both morally and financially, the work of the
Orange Bureau of Associated Charities
from its incorporation in 1884, and through
her generosity five hundred dollars was set
aside by the bureau as the nucleus for a
permanent fund to teach Household Econ-
omy to the families dealt with by the So-
ciety, or for any purpose for which the or-
ganization may wish to use it. She was
one of the directors of the first Even-
ing School established in Orange before
the Young Men's Christian Association was
organized and which was carried on two.
winters under the auspices of the Woman's
Club. She was president of the Homeo-
pathic Hospital, and when this was dis-
banded the Homeopathic Dispensary was
opened with the same Board of Governors.
She was president of the dispensary for
many years and remained on the board
until her death. She was also an honorary
member of the Board of Managers of the
Essex County Homeopathic Hospital, in
which she took a keen interest. By donating
a piece of property to be used as a site or
to be sold and the proceeds to be used for
a fund for a public bath, she assisted ma-
terially in establishing that institution, which
has proven to be a source of benefit and
recreation to many people. Mrs. Ropes was
a charter member of the New Church
(Swedenborgian) of Orange, joining in
1866, and was a regular attendant at the
services, taking an active interest in the
work of the various societies connected
therewith.

Mrs. Ropes died March 21, 1910, at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Clara Prescott,
with whom she had lived for twenty-three
years, aged eighty-four years. Mrs. Ropes

was a firm friend, generous and staunch,
and a loving and tender wife and mother.
Thus she lived, and thus she died, always
actuated by a spirit of love and duty and
commanding the respect and esteem of all
with whom she came in contact during her
active and useful career. Always progres-
sive and ready to help any cause which
looked forward to the uplift of humanity,
she will be remembered in years to come,
as she has been in the past, not alone be-
cause of her activity in the philanthropies
of the Oranges, but for her deep and friend-
ly interest in everyone with whom she as-
sociated. Almost her last words were : "I
did not know I had so many friends," show-
ing thus she had forgotten or was uncon-
scious how many she had befriended.

The high esteem in which Mr. Ropes was
universally held was partly evidenced by the
well nigh innumerable letters of condolence,
resolutions, editorials, etc., which appeared
at the time of his death, but the limits of
this memoir will permit us to reproduce but
one example of them. It is a minute entered
upon the records of the New England So-
ciety, and reads as follows :

"Few men have lived and died among us leav-
ing a record of a purer and more useful life
than our late associate and friend Mr. David N.
Ropes. Born in New England of the best Puritan
blood and tracing his lineage back to the Hugue-
nots of France, he was just such a man as the
union of all that was noble and good in these two
great forces of the Reformation might be ex-
pected to produce. Elements of character derived
from both, made him the well balanced man he
was. uniting with the stern integrity of the one,
the gentleness of the other in all those acts of
life which endeared him so signally to all who
came within the sphere of his influence and knew
him but to honor and respect. Born in 1814, in
the old City of Salem, Mass , just as the present
century was entering upon its stupendous prog-
ress in all avenues of man's activities and re^
ceiving the education of the common school and
academy, he early left the paternal roof to enter
upon the rough ways of life and battle, as thou-
sands of the brave boys of New England have
done for fortune, reputation and usefulness to his
fellow men. Carrying with him the early im-
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an active life he could not be other than he was,
the energetic man of business, the uncompromis-
ing advocate of the right, the friend of the slave,
the foe of injustice, the helper of the needy and
the wise counsellor in matters of public policy
and public welfare.

"In the organization of this Society he was
from the first a trusted counsellor, for several
years Vice- President, and for two years our
worthy and respected President. In all its activi-
ties he bore an efficient part and from his intimate
knowledge of the wants of our vicinity, he gave
most important aid and counsel to those plans
and efforts of this Society on behalf of the
public welfare which have done so much to
beautify our neighborhood and render it, as it is,
the delightful home of an enlightened and pros-
perous people.

"His efforts in the practical realization and
accomplishment of many of the improvements we
now enjoy, may be best appreciated by our daily
experiences and need not be here enumerated.
While we recall with tenderest sympathy the
financial embarrassment that in the great re-
vulsion fell upon him without fault on his part
and from circumstances beyond his control or
human knowledge to forsee, we cannot but admire
the fortitude, the manliness and Christian spirit
with which he met them and labored and toiled,
oftentimes against hope, to protect the rights and
interests of those whose confidence he had shared
in brighter days. It may be said truly of him,
that in all the relations of public and private
life, he acted well his part, and departing left
behind him a reputation for uprightness, honesty
and charity, unsullied by a blemish to mar his
character or lessen our respect.

" 'He was a man

More apt through inborn gentleness to err
In giving mercy's tide too free a course,
Than with a thrifty and illiberal hand
To circumscribe its channel.' "

PIERSON, William, M. D.,

Physician, Surgeon, Model Citizen.

Among those who have attained distinct
prestige in the practice of medicine and
surgery in the State of New Jersey, and
whose success came as the logical sequence
of thorough technical information and nat-
ural predilection, and that sympathy and
tact which are an absolute essential in the
profession, was Dr. William Pierson, late
of Orange, New Jersey, whose family was

represented in the medical profession for a
number of successive generations. His
family is one of the old ones of the State,
and a few words concerning the earlier
generations are not out of place here.

Thomas Pierson Sr. came with the
Branford settlers of Newark in 1666, and
was one of the signers of the "Funda-
mental Agreement." He had a number
of parcels of land granted him, and was a
weaver by trade. In his will, dated 1698,
he names children : Samuel, Thomas, Han-
nah, Abigail, Elizabeth and Mary ; son,
Sam. Lyon.

Samuel Pierson, eldest child of Thomas
Sr. and Maria (Harrison) Pierson, was
born in Branford, Connecticut, in 1663, and
was three years of age when brought by
his parents to Newark. Doubtless he
removed with his father to Watsessing
some years later. He was a carpenter by
trade, and took up a tract of land between
the First and Second Mountains, being one
of the first settlers there. The first men-
tion of his name is as one of the organizers
of the Mountain Society, and he was a dea-
con and one of the leaders in this organi-
zation. He died March 19, 1730, and is
buried in the "old graveyard." He married
Mary Harrison, daughter of his uncle, Ser-
geant Richard Harrison. Children : Joseph,
Samuel, James, Caleb, Jemima, Mary, Han-
nah.

Samuel Pierson, son of Samuel and
Mary (Harrison) Pierson, was born at the
homestead between the First and Second
Mountains, in 1698, and died in 1781. He
resided on the farm all his life ; was elected
deacon of the First Church in 1748, and
served in this office continuously until his
death. He married Mary Sergeant, and
had children : Eunice, Rebecca, Samuel,
John, Matthias, Mary, Joseph, Joanna and
Zenas.

Dr. Matthias Pierson, son of Samuel and
Mary (Sergeant) Pierson, was born at the
Pierson homestead, June 20, 1734, and died
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ton College, and later studied medicine, but
did not commence to practice this profes-
sion until almost thirty years of age. He
was the first and for many years the only
physician in the mountain region, his pro-
fessional work covering the section now
known as the Oranges, Bloomfield and
Caldwell, and extending to the border of
Morris county. Early in the course of his
practice he removed to a house near the cen-
ter of the village, this being located on the
present site of the Central Presbyterian
Church on Main street. He was an active
worker in the interests of education, and be-
came one of the incorporators of the Orange
Academy in 1783. During the War of the
Revolution, while he was not engaged in
actual military service, his work in behalf
of the patriot cause was of the most effec-
tive character. He and his family, as well
as almost all of the citizens of Newark, had
sought safety in the mountains during the
Hessian raid, and his house was occupied
by the British while they remained in New-
ark. Dr. Pierson married Phebe Nutman,
who died in 1826, a daughter of Isaac Nut-
man. Children : Nancy, Sarah, Isaac, Mat-
thias, William, Mary and Harriet.

Dr. Isaac Pierson, son of Dr. Matthias
and Phebe (Nutman) Pierson, was born in
Orange, New Jersey, August 15, 1/70. The
Orange Academy furnished his preparatory
education, and he was graduated from
Princeton College in the class of 1789. Hav-
ing completed the studies necessary to ob-
tain his degree as a Doctor of Medicine, he
became associated with his father in profes-
sional work, and his practice extended over
a widely extended section of the country.
For many years he was a member of the
Medical Society of New Jersey, and served
as president of this body in 1827. He took
a prominent part in the public affairs of the
county, served for a time as sheriff of Es-
sex county, and was a member of the Twen-
tieth and Twenty-first sessions of the Con-
gress of the United States. In 1821 he was
one of the incorporators of the "Orange

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Spring Company," which developed the fa-
mous cliahheate springs in what is unw
lluiton 1'ark. Dr. Pierson married Xancy
Crane, daughter of Aanm Crane. Chil-
dren: William, Albert, I'helie S., Fan
George, Edward, Aanm, Isaac, Ham. land
Sarah Ann.

Dr. William Pierson Sr., son of Dr.
Isaac and Nancy (Crane) Pierson, was born
in Orange, December 4, 1796. One of his
brothers, Rev. Albert Pierson, was a well
known and successful teacher, and another,
Rev. George Pierson, was the first pastor
of the Second Presbyterian, or Brick
Church, of Orange. Dr. Pierson received
his preparatory education at the ( 'range
Academy, and was graduated from the Col-
lege of New Jersey at Princeton, in the
.class of 1816. Under the able preceptor-
ship of his father he commenced the study
of medicine, then continued these studies
at the University of Pennsylvania, and at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons in
New York City. He received his degree
as Doctor of Medicine and his license from
the Medical Society of New Jersey in 1820,
and was the recording secretary of this as-
sociation for thirty years. His practice
was an extended one. In public affairs he
was an important factor. He served as a
member of the New Tersey Legislature in
1837-38 ; a director of the Board of Free-
holders; sheriff of Essex county, 1846-50;
was active in the construction of the Mor-
ris & Essex Railroad ; a corporator of the
Newark Savings Institution, and for many
years its vice-president ; when the town of
Orange was incorporated, he was elected
as its first mayor, served three successive
years, and was then a member of the Com-
mon Council for another three years ; he
was the originator and one of the corpor-
ators of the Rosedale Cemetery, of Orange,
in 1840, and active as a trustee until almost
the close of his life. Dr. Pierson married
Margaret Hillyer, daughter of Rev. Asa
Hillyer, D. D., for many years pastor of
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Children : Jane Riker, Anne, William, Ed-
ward Dickson, and Margaret Riker.

Dr. William Pierson Jr., son of Dr. Wil-
liam Pierson Sr. and Margaret (Hill-
yer) Pierson, was born in Orange, New
Jersey, November 20, 1830, and died June
12, 1900. He inherited his love of the med-
ical profession from his worthy ancestors,
and early began a course of study especially
adapted to the work he intended to follow.
After a thorough preparatory course at the
Newark Academy, the Flushing Institute,
and under private tuition, he matriculated
at the Medical Department of the University
of New York, and was graduated from this
institution in the class of 1852 with the de-
gree of Doctor of Medicine. The honorary
degree of Master of Arts was later confer-
red upon him by Nassau Hall, Princeton,
New Jersey. He had also pursued his
studies under the preceptorship of his
father, and was for a time house physician of
the Charity Hospital, and later at the Brook-
lyn City Hospital. For a time he was as-
sociated with his father in his professional
work, also with Dr. Crane, and then made a
specialty of surgery, in which branch he
earned great distinction. For many years
he was the only operating obstetrician in the
Oranges, and he was in great demand as a
consulting physician. His professional
labors engrossed his time and attention to
such an extent that there was but little left
to devote to the public affairs of the com-
munity, but his deep interest in the cause
of education could not be entirely sup-
pressed even by his professional work. For
many years he was a member of the Board
of Education, was elected the first president
of this body, and served capably in this
office for twelve consecutive years. He was
an impressive and influential advocate for
the higher education of the masses, and
greatly raised the standard of education in
the city in which he resided. Both as a
member and as an official he was connected
with numerous and varied organizations, a
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director and for some time vice-president
of the Orange Bank, he assisted in its man-
agement ; member of the New Jersey State
Medical Society, served as its secretary
many years commencing from 1866, and
was later its president ; member of the
Essex County District Medical Society,
and also served as president ; one of the
founders of the New Jersey Academy of
Medicine ; member of the Orange Mountain
Medical Society, which was organized at
his home ; member of the old Medical Union
of Newark ; the American Medical Associa-
tion ; Princeton Club of Newark ; the
Orange Princeton Society of Orange ; the
State Sanitary Society. In the proceedings
of these organizations may be found many
contributions from his pen, some as formal
papers read before the members, others as
reports of interesting cases. When he rose
in a meeting he was always listened to with
respect and close attention ; his manner of
speaking and writing was logical, concise
and direct. The trend of his mind was
toward the practical, and he was always
ready to give a fair trial to new methods
of operation, comparing them with care
with the older methods in vogue. He was
attending surgeon at the Orange Memorial
Hospital ; consulting surgeon of St. Mary's
Hospital, Morristown ; consulting surgeon
of St. Barnabas' Hospital, Newark ; attend-
ing physician at Seton Hall College of
South Orange and at the Orange Orphans'
Home ; attending surgeon and medical
director of St. Michael's Hospital, Newark.
During the Civil War, Dr. Pierson was sur-
geon of the board of enrollment of the
Fourth Congressional District of New Jer-
sey, and was volunteer surgeon on the Gov-
ernor's staff. He was several times as-
signed to duty on the battlefield, where he
rendered important service as surgeon of
the Sanitary Commission. He was justly
proud of his ancestors on both sides, many
of them having achieved distinction in each
generation. His great-grandfather, Lieu-
tenant Abraham Riker, served in the Con-

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tinental army prior to the signing of the
Declaration of Independence, and the origi-
nal commission is still in existence in the
home of the doctor, dated at Philadelphia,
June 20, 1775, signed by John Hancock.

Dr. Pierson married Isabel F. Adams,
daughter of B. F. Adams, of Chicago, son
of Benjamin Adams, born in 1763; son of
Benjamin Adams, born in 1728; son of
Thomas Adams, and grandson of Thomas
Adams ; son of William Adams, the an-
cestor, born in England, 1594, came to
America in 1628, and settled in Ipswich.
Dr. and Mrs. Pierson had children: Mar-
garet, Louise and Isabel.

Following are a few extracts from a me-
morial of Dr. William Pierson, read be-
fore the New England Society of Orange,
October 6, 1900, by Hon. Frederic Adams :

"I need not enumerate the positions of trust
that he occupied in business enterprises and
financial institutions ; they were such as naturally
fell to a man with a decided capacity for affairs.
He understood the value of money, and he under-
stood also that elusive and inscrutable thing,
perilous as the sound of the Sirens, the value
of land. Having in his composition nothing of
the visionary or speculator, he easily escaped the
rocks on which less wary men were shipwrecked
and, investing with cautious boldness, in im-
proved or immediately improved real estate, he
early began to lay the foundation of what came
to be a competent fortune. I am not competent
to judge him by a professional standard, but I
may speak of him as he appeared to a patient.
The non-professional view of a professional man,
though not exact, and never technical, is apt to
be in the long run not far from the truth, and is
at any rate the view by which every professional
man stands or falls. There were certain char-
acteristics that would be sure to strike one who
knew Dr. Pierson. First of all, you owned the
charm and felt the power of a personality at once
forceful and attractive; the erect, compact figure
of medium height, ready servant of his will; the
alert step, the genial voice, the cordial greeting,
the cheery laugh that told his gayety of heart, the
friendly interest, the serious attention, the in-
tuitive insight, the enlighted, judicious action,
the easy, self-reliant bearing that made you trust
him because you saw he trusted himself:
"Gifts such as purchase, with unminted gold.
Smiles from the young and blessings from the old."

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"A notable trait was his quick and close <,l>s,-r-
vation. Me was no wizard of the Sherlock
H< ilmes order, a being whose existence outsit
a book may well be doubted, but li<- had a k.-.-n
eye for those little things that arc so oti.-ii tin-
clues to great ones. And wlirn In- had reached
the limit of proof, he could guess shrewdly from
the known to the unknown, from the ascertained
t<i tin- iidt immediately asccrtainahlo. which, I
hope that I may say without any offense to any
physician, is in medicine, no less than in law
and divinity, a useful and much employed ac-
complishment- \ii.itlirr rh.uac Irristic was his
love for and mastery of the theory and practice
of surgery. Nothing could he more reassuring
than the promptness with which he took hold of
a surgical case, the clearness of his analysis, the
decision with which he operated or decided not to
operate, and the success that almost always re-
warded him.

"Yet his real throne was not in the operating
room, but in the family circle. It was said of a
great English advocate that he was a thirteenth
man on every jury he addressed. Dr. Pierson
was an honorary member of every household that
he visited. His very entrance into a room flooded
it with sunshine. 'A merry heart,' we are told,
'doeth good like a medicine.' Solomon might have
added, what is no less true, that a merry heart
improves the effect of medicine. It was in the
homes of his patients, at the center of the strong
and sensitive network of domestic interests and
relationships, dealing with every vicissitude of
physical being from birth to death, that Dr. Pier-
son secured the confidence and won the hearts of
all. This was the secret of his hold on the com-
munity, of the affection that surrounded him like
an atmosphere, of the sympathy that went out to
him in his decline, of the overshadowing sense
of a common loss when it was known that his
course was run. What was his leading motive
and ruling purpose; — his master passion, if I may
use so urgent a phrase? The answer to this
question is as clear in my own mind as sunlight.
It was to do good; not vaguely but definitely:
by work and example rather than by talk and
precept ; mainly, of course, in his own line, but
also, very largely, in organized benevolent effort
to help the wards of society and alleviate human
suffering. To such objects he gave money, and
what was worth more than money, his time, his
counsel, his influence, and his happy, good-humor-
ed faculty of stirring up others with a hearty
stimulus to go and do likewise. How wisely and
efficiently in all this, he was supported by the
members of his own household I need not say,
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the familiar history and daily working of public
charity in Orange."

In 1907 a tablet to the memory of Dr.
Pierson was erected in the Memorial Hos-
pital, the event being a notable one in the
community. Beautiful tributes were paid
to the memory of Dr. Pierson by Drs.
Young and Thomas W. Harvey, and the
tablet was unveiled by Miss Caroline K.
Herrick. It bears the following inscrip-
tion: "In loving memory of William Pier-
son, M. D., to whose untiring effort Or-
ange Memorial Hospital owes its origin,
this tablet is erected by those who have
benefited by his skill and profited by his
wisdom."

State protection, and thus avoiding a riot
similar to the one that occurred in New
York City the same day. He was United
States Senator from New Jersey, 1875-81.
He was a member of the Democratic Na-
tional Committee ; a trustee of Rutgers
College ; and one of the founders and presi-
dent of the Washington Headquarters As-
sociation of Morristown, New Jersey.

He married, in 1851, Fanny F., daughter
of N. D. Colman, of Kentucky. He died
in Morristown, New Jersey, November 7,
1883.

RANDOLPH, Theodore Frelinghuysen,

Governor, U. S. Senator.

Theodore Frelinghuysen Randolph, legis-
lator, and Governor of New Jersey, was
born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, June
24, 1816, son of James Fitz Randolph.

He attended the Rutgers Grammar
School, and in 1840 removed to Vicksburg,
Mississippi, where he engaged in mercantile
pursuits. He returned to New Jersey in
1852, settling in Jersey City. He became in-
terested in the mining and transportation
of coal and iron, and was president of the
Morris & Essex railroad many years. He
was a representative in the State Legisla-
ture, 1859-61 ; was elected State Senator in
1862 to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected
for the full term, serving 1862-65, ar>d while
in the Senate introduced a bill providing for
a State Comptroller. In 1865 he removed
to Morristown, New Jersey. He was elect-
ed Governnor in 1869. During his ad-
ministration the State Riparian Commission
was established, the Camden & Amboy
monopoly tax was repealed ; and the Morris
Plains Lunatic Asylum was constructed.
On the anniversary of the battle of the
Boyne, July 12, 1871, he issued a proclama-
tion insuring the right of parade to the
Orangemen of New Jersey, giving them

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JOHNSON, J. Augustus,

Lawyer, Diplomatist.

It was the distinction of Hon. J. Augus-
tus Johnson to hold high position in the dip-
lomatic service of the nation under four
different administrations — a most remark-
able, and perhaps, an unparalleled record.
He was appointed by President Buchanan
to his first consular position, and was con-
tinued under Presidents Lincoln, Johnson
and Grant, receiving the personal thanks of
President Lincoln for valuable service in
Syria. He was known to the scholars of
the world as the discoverer of the Hamath
inscriptions ; to the political economists as
president of the Confederated Good Gov-
ernment clubs and other reform organiza-
tions ; and to seamen as their untiring
friend in securing better conditions for
them, both while afloat and ashore. He
was one of the six sons of Reverend Lor-
enzo Dow Johnson, an eminent minister
whose sons rose to equal eminence in the
different professions they embraced. The
family through direct lineage and inter-
marriage date to Colonial and Revolution-
ary days, and number many of the distin-
guished men and women of New England
among their ancestors.

J. Augustus Johnson, son of Reverend
Lorenzo Dow and Mary (Burges) John-
son, was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
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New Jersey, February 27, 1914. He at-
tained a profound knowledge of science,
literature and law, and was duly admitted
to practice his profession in all State and
Federal courts of New York and other
States, and to the Supreme Court at Wash-
ington, District of Columbia. The law did
not particularly appeal to him in his young-
er years, the political atmosphere of Wash-
ington and the service of his country being
more in accordance with his tastes. He spent
some years at Washington in his later boy-
hood, doing secretary work for different
Senators and in small government posi-
tions before obtaining an appointment to
the consular service. In 1858 he received
from President Buchanan the appointment
as United States Consul at Beirut, Syria,
and later performing there important ser-
vice under President Lincoln, from whom
he received personal thanks in 1862. In
1867 he was raised to the rank of Consul
General by President Johnson, continuing
in Syria under President Grant, who also
entrusted to him delicate matters of State
to be adjusted between the United States
and the Ottoman government, which ne-
cessitated his being sent to Jaffa and Cy-
prus. It was in 1870 that he discovered the
Hamath inscriptions at Hamath, in North-
ern Syria, that gave him a worldwide rep-
utation among scientists, and shortly af-
terward he resigned from the consular ser-
vice and returned to the LTnited States. He
located in New York City, began the prac-
tice of law and so continued during his re-
maining active years, gaining honorable
position as an able and upright wise coun-
selor and advocate. He took an active
part in the political activities of New York
City, and was a member of the "Commit-
tee of Seventy'' in 1894, joining with vigor
in all the movements that tended toward
better and purer politics. He was an apos-
tle of Civil Service reform, and strongly
supported the policy of organizing "Good

Government" clubs in various states. He
\\as an active member <>f the Civil Service
Reform Association, and president of ih<-
Council of Confederated lined < invern-
inent Clubs. While his interest in all mu-
nicipal affairs was intense, he was espec-
ially interested in the public schools and in
sailors. He was active in the movement
that gave to the latter the splendid building
at 25 State street, the Seaman's Church In-
stitute, the Seamen's Legal Aid Society,
and in the enactment of laws for their pro-
tection. He was a member of many legal
and scientific societies, the Lawyers Club,
and Union League of New York City, join-
ing the latter body in 1875.

His Colonial and Revolutionary ancestry
gained him right of entrance to many soci-
eties basing their membership on early co-
lonial descent, a privilege he exercised in
many instances, belonging to the Society of
Colonial Wars, Sons of the American Rev-
olution, the New England Society, and
others. His name was everywhere hon-
ored, and his long life of seventy-eight years
was one well spent and fruitful. He was
a member of the Congregational church,
and in all things measured up to the full
stature of a man. He was a great reader,
an interesting, pleasing speaker, and a
strong forceful contributor to the literature
of the profession and associations of which
he was a member. Broadminded and pub-
lic-spirited, he wielded a strong influence
over his fellows that was always used for
wise and beneficent purposes.

Mr. Johnson married (first) in 1857,
Sarah M. Barclay, of Virginia, who bore
him two sons, Barclay and .Tristram John-
son, the latter a prominent figure in the po-
litical world until his death in 1911. He
married (second) in 1886. Fanny Valeda
Matthews, who bore him a son, I lallett ; and
a daughter, Valeda. Mrs. Fanny V. John-
son survives her husband, residing at 460
Scotland road. South Orange, New Jersey.

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KIRKPATRICK, Hon. Andrew,

Lawyer, Federal Jurist.

Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick, says his biog-
rapher, "was the type of all that is highest
and best in American civilization, of the
purest integrity, and the loftiest ideals, de-
voted to the obligations of his family, and
bound to his friends by attainments most
amiable, and attractive in his personal char-
acter." He was born in Washington, D. C.,
October 8, 1844, ancl died in Newark, New
Jersey, May 3, 1904, son of John Bayard
and Margaret (Weaver) Kirkpatrick. His
father was born in New Brunswick, where
he passed his life as one of its most enter-
prising citizens, a few years excepted, when
he was acting as Third Assistant Auditor
of the United States Treasury. Hon. An-
drew Kirkpatrick, grandfather of Judge
Kirkpatrick, is written of on another page
of this work.

Judge Kirkpatrick was educated at the
Rutgers Grammar School in New Bruns-
wick, and at Princeton College, where he re-
mained for three years and left to graduate
at Union College, Schenectady, New York,
from which he graduated in 1863, receiv-
ing his honorary degree of M. A. from
Princeton University in 1870, and in 1903
the degree of LL.D. from Union College.
He then entered the office of the Hon. Fred-
erick Theodore Frelinghuysen, of Newark,
and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as
attorney in 1866, and as counsellor in 1869.
For several years he practiced as one of the
members of the firm of Frederick Theodore
Frelinghuysen, and then he went into part-
nership with the Hon. Frederick H. Teese.
He was eminently successful, and was a rec-
ognized leader. In April, 1885, he was ap-
pointed judge of the Essex county court of
common pleas by Governor Abbett, and
continuously reappointed until 1896, when
he resigned to become judge of the United
States district court of New Jersey, which
position was then offered to him by Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland. This position he

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held until his death. "His career on the
bench showed a wide knowledge of the law,
together with a large fund of common sense,
and his methods were celebrated for this
latter trait. He acquitted himself with hon-
or, and the brevity of his charges to juries
were frequently commented on * * *
His legal knowledge was brought to bear
on the cases, to the disentanglement of many
knotty problems. His record as a federal
judge was brilliant, and to his courtesy and
humanity there were hundreds to testify.
Quick-witted, intolerant of shams of any
kind, and broad-minded, Judge Kirkpatrick
conducted cases to the admiration of law-
yers and jurists of many minds * * *
He possessed wide reading and because of
the soundness of his judgment his opinions
carried weight in the legal world. They
were regarded as peculiarly clear in state-
ment and had the quality of being easily
comprehended by the lay mind. He was a
keen student of human nature, a man of
force and insight of character." Among the
important commercial and corporation cases
determined by him were the United States
Steel Company, the United States Ship-
building Company, and the Asphalt Trust.
He was essentially the lawyer and the judge
with administrative powers of a high or-
der, and on one memorable occasion he ex-
ercised these powers for the great advantage
of one of the most extensive businesses in
the country. In 1893 the Domestic Manu-
facturing Company failed, and Judge Kirk-
patrick was appointed receiver with authori-
ty to continue the business of making and
selling Domestic sewing machines. Notwith-
standing the unexampled financial depres-
sion which marked the year of the World's
Fair he discharged his trust with such skill
that works with hundreds of employees con-
tinued in operation, and at the expiration
of his official term as receiver he delivered
the property to the stockholders entirely
freed from its embarrassments and with as-
sets sufficient to pay all of its creditors in
full. He was one of the organizers and for

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some time was president of the Federal
Trust Company, a director in the Howard
Savings Institution, treasurer of the T. P.
Howell Company, a director in the Fidel-
ity Title and Deposit Company, a director
in the Newark Gas Company, a member of
the Newark City Hall commission, and a
member of the Newark Sinking Fund com-
mission. He was the treasurer and one ot
the original governors of the Essex Club,
and one of the organizers of the Sons of
the American Revolution.

In 1869 he married (first) Alice, daugh-
ter of Joel W. and Margaret ( Harrison)
Condit, the sister of Estelle Condit, who
married Thomas Talmadge Kinney. Their
three children were: i. Andrew, of New
York City, born October 12, 1870; edu-
cated at St. Paul's School, Concord, New
Hampshire ; spent one year at Cornell, and
five years in the Pennsylvania railroad shops
at Altoona ; became assistant road foreman
of engines of the Pennsylvania railroad, and
is now in the automobile business ; he mar-
ried Mae Bittner and has one child, An-
drew, Jr. 2. John Bayard, born May i,
1872 ; attended St. Paul's School ; graduated
from Harvard University in 1894, and from
the law school of that instittuion in 1897;
admitted to the New Jersey bar as an at-
torney in February, 1898, and as counsellor
in February, 1901. 3. Alice Condit, born
December n, 1874; graduated from St.
Agnes' School, Albany, New York. In 1883
Judge Kirkpatrick married (second) Louise
C, daughter of Theodore P. and Elizabeth
Woodruff (King) Howell, of New York
City, and their three children are: 4. Lit-
tleton, born September 2, 1884; attended
Newark Academy, St. Paul's School, and
graduated from Princeton University in
1906: engaged in the real estate and insur-
ance business, under the firm name of Kirk-
patrick & Young; married, June 9, 1908,
Amanda Lewis Crane. 5. Isabelle, born
January 18, 1886: married Albert H.
Marckwald, of Short Hills, New Jersey. 6.
Elizabeth, born August 2, 1895.

LADD, Benjamin F.,

Influential Jonrnaliit.

The calling that Ilenjainin !•'. I, add pur-
sued in Vindaud, New Jersey, — journali-m,
—was one that brought him much in the
public eye, but the fact that he \\as widely
known doe^ not explain his great popularity
nor the universal respect in which his
memory is held, regard and liking that came
in recognition of his manv excellent vir-
tues. For thirty-seven years he was con-
nected with the Yinelaml "F.vening Jour-
nal," for thirty-five years of that time as
sole owner and editor, and as the head of
that newspaper he placed it among the lead-
ers of journals of its standing. A promin-
ent figure in local affairs, he was identified
in official capacity with many of Yindand's
most important institutions, and everywhere
was accorded sincere respect for the up-
rightness of his life and the sturdy manner
in which he stood by his convictions. Even
during a lifetime passed in a profession in
which enemies are more easily made than
in any other he avoided the bitterness and
hard feeling that so often results from an
ill considered or unstably founded state-
ment, and, while defending to the last his
opinion and judgment, never used his paper
to promulgate falsehood or to publish that
which best remained imprinted. At his
death it was written by his associates that
there passed "a man of sterling purpose
for the right, a good citizen, a real friend."
His death marked his yielding to a cardiac
ailment whose effects extended over a
period of four years, and occurred at his
home on Landis avenue, December 18. 1913.

The family of which Benjamin F. Ladd
was a member was founded in America by
Samuel Ladd, who settled in Haverhill,
Massachusetts, in 1649, coming from his
home in England, where he had fought
against the Cromwellian forces in the army
of King Charles. The descent from the
founder to Benjamin F. Ladd, of Yineland.
is through John, David, Jeremiah, and

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Cyrus, to Chester, grandfather of Benjamin
F. Chester Ladd was born in Burlington,
New York, in 1795, and left the State of his
birth to settle in Pennsylvania, moving
thence to Rockford, Illinois, where he was
among the pioneers, pursuing the farmer's
calling. He was a man of deep religious
beliefs, and although not an ordained min-
ister preached at the informal church ser-
vices held by the settlers of the region. He
married Harriet Hammond and was the
father of Harvey Ladd, father of Benjamin
F. Ladd.

Harvey Hammond Ladd was born in Bur-
lington, New York, May 22, 1825, and died
in Chicago, Illinois, in 1880. His early life
was spent in his birthplace, and prior to
1840 he moved to what became known as
the oil district of Pennsylvania, when the
wealth of the underlying mineral deposits
became known. His home was on Oil
Creek, the present site of Oil City, and
there for a time he taught school, later mov-
ing to Belvidere, Illinois, where he learned
the carpenter's trade. Appleton, Wisconsin,
was his next home, and in this locality he
became interested in the cutting and dressing
of lumber, dealing in lumber for several
years. In 1865 he moved to Vineland, New
Jersey, making his home in this place for
fourteen years, and in 1879 went to Chicago,
Illinois, where his death occurred one year
later. He was an early member of the
Sons of Temperance, was also much inter-
ested in matters educational, and in Vine-
land, which at the time of his settlement was
in its youth, served for several years as
school trustee. He married, in 1850, Lu-
anda D. Perry, who, at a great age, sur-
vives him to the present time ( 1915 ), daugh-
ter of Benjamin F. and Abigail (Newland)
Perry, her grandfather Perry a Revolu-
tionary soldier and a cousin of Commodore
Perry, who won his fame in the War of
1812. Children of Harvey and Lucinda D.
(Perry) Ladd: Benjamin F., of whom
further ; and Clara L. Field, who is still
living.

Benjamin F., son of Harvey and Lucinda
D. (Perry) Ladd, was born in Appleton,
Wisconsin, May 4, 1855. His earliest school
training was gained in Stevensville, where
his parents were for a short time residing,
and he afterward attended the Appleton
school, completing his education in the Vine-
land high school. At the time of his en-
trance to the Vineland school, its classes
were held in the Plum Street Hall, and here
he came under the teaching of Professor
Charles Wright. He learned the printer's
trade in the office of the "Vineland
Weekly," and was also for a time employed
in the office of the "Independent." His ca-
reer as a publisher began on May i, 1876,
when, in partnership with Obert Spencer,
he purchased the "Evening Journal," a
paper of one year's standing, established by
Walter E. Cansdell, which was at first the
"Daily Journal," but was changed to the
"Evening Journal," December 14, 1880.
This association continued until June 24,
1878, when Mr. Spencer retired from the
firm and Mr. Ladd became sole owner of
the paper, the publication of which he con-
tinued until his death. That the standard
of the "Evening Journal" has been kept
high and that the paper has proved itself
worthy of the patronage of the townspeople
is shown in the fact that during its life more
than a dozen newspapers began publication,
only to find themselves unable to remove
"The Journal" from its secure entrench-
ments of public favor. A Democrat in poli-
tics, Mr. Ladd devoted his paper to the ser-
vice of that party, but in politics, as in all
else, the truth was stated with no attempf
at deceit or compromise.

In connection with his publishing inter-
ests, Mr. Ladd was for a time engaged in
real estate and insurance business in part-
nership with the late Thomas B. Steel, but
after the death of Mr. Steel he sold the bus-
iness to Henry Taylor. In the organization
of the Tradesmen's Bank he played an im-
portant part, becoming a member of the
board of directors, and on the death of Mr.

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a decided preference for quiet and unpre-
tending pursuits and the life of a private
citizen, he was never a candidate for public
office. In his personal character he was ac-
tive and earnest in devotion to his duties and
obligations, possessing strong domestic af-
fections and warm friendly attachments, and
he exerted throughout his life a useful in-
fluence.

He married, October i, 1863, Estelle,
daughter of Joel W. and Margaret (Harri-
son) Condit. She was born in Newark, and
died there, December 26, 1907. Her life
was marked by keen interest and much ac-
tivity, quietly exercised, in philanthropic
work in Newark. One of the founders of
the Babies' Hospital and its president, she
was incessant in her efforts to promote the
usefulness of that institution. In a reso-
lution of the board of managers of the hos-
pital the following tribute was paid to her :
"Kind, generous, and wise, her nature was
adapted to the good work, and her great
business capacity made her the best of man-
agers and advisers. The hospital is a mon-
ument to her goodness and wisdom." The
Newark Exchange for Women's Work was
established in 1881 at a meeting held in her
home, and she was its president until her
death. This organization also has placed on
record testimony to her conscientious and
valuable services, in which reference is made
tn her "broad and ready sympathy with all
in trouble or need ; her innumerable acts
of charity and kindness, which she with
modest spirit made nothing of; her genial
spirit, which was an uplift to all who came
in touch with her ; her many graces of
mind and heart." She was descended from
John Condit, who came to America in 1678,
and with his son Peter settled in Newark,
where he purchased lands.

Children of Thomas Talmadge and Es-
telle (Condit) Kinney: . i. Mary Clemen-
tine, born August 12. 1864; married Wil-
liam Campbell Clark, of Newark ; children :
i. Estelle Campbell Clark; ii. Mai Felicity
Clark. 2. Margaret Condit, born October

28, 1865; married, April 14, 1904, Carroll
Phillips Bassett ; children : i. Carroll Kin-
ney Bassett; ii. Estelle Condit Bassett; iii.
William Burnet Kinney Bassett. 3. Estelle
Burnet, born July 9, 1868; married Freder-
ick, son of Hon. Frederick T. Frelinghuy-
sen, of Newark ; children : i. Frederick
Frelinghuysen ; ii. Thomas Talmadge Kin-
ney Frelinghuysen ; iii. Theodore Freling-
huysen ; iv. George Frelinghuysen. 4. Wil-
liam Burnet, lawyer. 5. Thomas Talmadge,
born October 24, 1872 ; died February 14,
1885.

BEATTIE, Robert,

Enterprising Manufacturer.

No man in Passaic county has been more
prominently identified with her progres-
sive advancement than the late Robert
Beattie, head of the Beattie Manufactur-
ing Company many years, to whom is due
much of the substantial development upon
which rests the prosperity and happiness
of the community. He ever manifested a
public spirited loyalty to all interests for
the general good, and his practical ideas
and untiring labors left their impress on
many of the most beneficial improvements
of the county.

His father, also Robert Beattie, was a
native of Ireland, from which country he
emigrated to America in the first half of
the nineteenth century. More than half a
century ago he founded the business which
has since become such an important indus-
try. He purchased a building at Little
Falls, Passaic county, New Jersey, which
had been used as a grist mill, remodeled it
for his purpose, and installed the necessary
equipment for the manufacture of ingrain
and three-ply carpet. He was one of the
pioneer carpet manufacturers of this coun-
try. It is said that the first power loom
ever used for carpet weaving was installed
and operated by Mr. Beattie about the
year 1840. It was invented and manufac-
tured by Nicholas Haight, at that time the

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manager of the New Jersey and Little
Falls Carpet Company, which had been or-
ganized in New York in 1822. Mr. Beattie
went to Little Falls to start the looms of
this company, but they did not prove a
success. The invention, however, had suf-
ficient merit to cause E. B. Bigelow to
make a careful study of it prior to perfect-
ing the loom which gained for him fortune
and fame. During the Civil War -Mr.
Beattie, with the sagacity of the keen
sighted business man, abandoned the man-
ufacture of carpets, and devoted his atten-
tion and looms to the manufacture of blan-
kets, a bit of business acumen which af-
forded ample returns. Upon the termina-
tion of the war, he resumed his carpet man-
ufacturing operations. He married Agnes
McGraw, a native of Scotland, and had
children : Robert and William, Mary, Cath-
erine, Josephine Agnes.

Robert Beattie, the particular subject of
this sketch, was born in New York City,
January 10, 1842, and died at his home at
Little Falls. Passaic county, New Jersey,
January 29, 1910, after an illness of several
weeks duration, from a complication of
diseases. Upon the completion of his educa-
tion he became associated in the carpet man-
ufacturing business with his father, and was
identified with this industry throughout his
life. As above stated, the business was
founded by the elder Beattie in 1840; it was
operated as the Little Falls Carpet Mills,
1843-1871, under the title of Robert Beattie
& Sons, 18/1-1882, and was incorporated
as the Beattie Manufacturing Company, in
1882, at which time the elder Robert Beat-
tie became president of the corporation, anu
his son William, treasurer. They had New
York offices at No. 133 Fifth avenue, and
a Chicago office at No. 1509 Hey worth
Building, of which R. Howard Beattie. a son
of William, had charge many years. In
1870 Brussels and tapestry carpets were
added to the output of the mill, and sub-
sequently velvet and felt carpets were also
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tlic elder Mi I'.eattic . tin- business was <
ried mi by his two 50ns, :m.| when William
I'.eattie died in iSc,;, KO|,,T! Seattle h
came president .if the company, conduct-
ing its affairs with remarkable , ecutive
ability, and retaining his active interest in
everything coiimrted with it until a few
weeks prior to his death. In recent v
velvet carpets and ruj;s ha\<- been tnanufac
Hired exclusively, the demand fur carpets
having gradually died out. a- the practical
utility of rugs has become more and more
apparent. The business is m-w carried on
by the younger members of the lie attie fam-
ily. At a meeting of the stockholders of
the company after the death nf Mr. I'.eattie,
Robert Beattie Jr., his son, was elected a
director, and R. Howard Beattie, a son of
the late William I'.eattie. was elected presi-
dent. The death of Mr. Keattie cast a
wide spread gloom over the community.
The services were attended by prominent
men from all parts of the country, and
the remains were interred in the family
plot at Laurel Grove Cemetery.

Mr. Beattie married (first) Sophia Sig-
ler ; (second) Ruth \Yoodhull, of Xew
York State. By the first marriage he had
a son, William H., now superintendent of
the mills at Little Falls, and a daughter.
Kate ; by the second marriage he had :
Robert Jr., assistant superintendent of the
mills, and Frank Kitching. Mr. I'.eattie was
well preserved, dignified and courteous in
his demeanor, and of kindly disposition. The
portrait accompanying this sketch is from
a photograph taken when he was forty-
eight years of age. He was a notably gen-
erous man, of a deeply sympathetic nature,
and his contributions to charitable and re-
ligious projects were always liberal in the
extreme. He was a man of broad and lib-
eral views. Especially fond of travel, he
spent much time in this form of recrea-
tion, but preferred travel in his own country
to that abroad. Hunting and fishing also
received their due share of attention, and
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a deep and beneficial interest in forestry,
was a pioneer member of the Northwood
Club, in the Adirondacks, and also of an
organization formed to protect the timber
lands of the same section. His social af-
filiation nearer his home was with the
Hamilton Club, of Paterson, New Jersey.

CUTHBERT, Mayland,

Naval Officer in the Civil War.

Those things which men bear in their
minds and hearts as thoughts and senti-
ments worthy of remembrance and which
they are fond of quoting, serve as almost
unfailing indices to their lives and charac-
ters, for those things which men cherish,
whether as ideals or lower passions, leave
indelible imprints upon their lives. So it
was with Mayland Cuthbert, of Beverly,
New Jersey, and the key to his calm faith
and assurance in his later years of a final
shepherding by the Good Shepherd was
found in his love for the sweet verses of the
poet which conclude,

"I hope to see my Pilot face to face,
When I have crossed the bar."

Guided through his life of sixty-eight years
by this hope, strong in his faith to the end,
he so lived that men could find no smirch
upon his name or reputation, and bore to
his grave the loving respect and regard of
his community, his business associates, and
his former comrades of the battle field.

The life of Mayland Cuthbert, early de-
voted to technical and professional train-
ing, was turned from the course of steady
effort and advancement it would naturally
have followed by the outbreak of the War
between the States. This conflict he en-
tered as an engineer in the United States
navy, being in active service from August,
1861, until his honorable discharge from
the navy in August of 1864, receiving a
severe wound at the battle of Port Royal
that caused him suffering for the remain-

der of his life. Returning to civil life, he

pursued the business that had claimed him
prior to his enlistment, that of drugs, fol-
lowing this in Scranton and Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, then, after a short residence
in Colorado, forming an association with
James S. Mason & Company, of Philadel-
phia, that continued until his death.

Mr. Cuthbert traced his family line to
distinguished ancestry, and was a grand-
son of Captain Anthony Cuthbert, of Rev-
olutionary fame, who won conspicuous no-
tice by his gallant defence of his company's
guns at the battle of Trenton. He was also
a descendant of David Ogden, who came to
America in the "good ship Welcome."

Mayland Cuthbert, son of Samuel and
Anna (Mayland) Cuthbert, was born in
Philadelphia, April u, 1838, and died at his
home on the bank of the Delaware, Edge-
water Park, Beverly, New Jersey, April 30,
1906. He was educated in the schools of
his native city, and when a youth of sixteen
years entered the druggist establishment of
Bullock- & Crenshaw. His vision of useful-
ness extended far beyond the mere earning
of a weekly wage, and when, two years
later, he was offered the opportunity of
studying analytical chemistry in the labora-
tory of Professor James C. Booth, he at
once accepted. In December, 1857. Mr.
Cuthbert, then only nineteen years of age,
was honored by election to the Academy of
Natural Sciences. In 1859 he experienced
another great advance in his profession by
his appointment as assistant and superin-
tendent in Dr. Edward R. Squibb's chemical
laboratory in Brooklyn. New York, al-
though he there remained for but one year.
The cause of his leaving this position was
the political disturbances between the north
and south, which seemed as though they
might at any minute precipitate the country
into civil war. Feeling strongly on the sub-
jects in dispute, convinced that war could
not be averted, if even long delayed, certain
that the Union would find more than suffi-
cient defenders in the army ranks, he re-
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which there would be little of the spectacu-
lar but much of the useful, and entered the
Philadelphia machine shop of Neafie &
Levy, to qualify for engineer in the United
States navy. So assiduously did he apply
himself to his tasks, so rapidly did he mas-
ter all of the technical and practical side of
engineering, that on August 24, 1861, he
was accepted as third assistant engineer in
the United States navy, on April 21, 1863,
being promoted to the rank of second as-
sistant engineer. His first ship was the
"Mohican," and among others he served on
the "Pequod" and "Powhatan" in the course
of his three years service. He was on the
"Mohican" in the battle of Port Royal, and
in the course of this engagement received
a serious wound, a piece of shell laying
bare the femoral artery. In 1864 Mr. Cuth-
bert resigned from the service and was hon-
orably discharged on August 22, being
raised from the rank of ensign to that of
lieutenant.

Returning from the war, he for a time
conducted drug operations in Scranton,
Pennsylvania, then following the same bus-
iness in Philadelphia. Here he began to
suffer more severely from the wound he
had received at Port Royal and which had
never ceased troubling him, and so moved
to Colorado, in the hope that the more brac-
ing climate would induce complete recovery.
While in the west, he dealt in real estate,
and upon once more returning to his birth-
place, Philadelphia, he formed a connection
with James S. Mason & Company, in the
manufacture of blacking, that continued
throughout his active years.

Mr. Cuthbert was a member of the Penn-
sylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution ;
the Naval Order of the United States;
the Army and Navy Club, of Washington,
District of Columbia; and the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion, being elected to
class one membership, February 6, 1889.
He was a communicant of the Protestant
Episcopal church, and in politics staunchly
upheld Republican principles. Mr. Cuth-

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bert \\as one of the first resident! of that
beautiful section of I'.everly known a I .

watiT I 'ark, and here, in his In urn the

Delaware, lie died. In dosing this brief ri
view of his useful career, the foil. i\\m^ is
quoted from a record filed bv his com
panions of the Loyal Legion :

"Those who knew him intimately admired Ins
strong will and his untiring energy, his broad
sense of justice to his fellow men, his integrity
and good faith in all things, and especially his
supersensitive sense of honor in all matters in-
volving honesty and good faith in the fulfillment
of promises. Companion Cuthbert was a man of
keen and quick perceptions and ever ready and
courageous to defend his convictions."

Mayland Cuthbert married, October d,
1863, Fanny Chambers, daughter of lam.
E. and Clarissa McCauley (Chamber- 1
Brooks. Their son Allen now holds an im-
portant position as civil engineer with the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and is
stationed at the Altoona, Pennsylvania,
headquarters of the company.

McKENZIE, William,

Public-Spirited Citizen.

Seldom does an alien by birth become so
thoroughly imbued with a spirit of devo-
tion and interest in his adopted commun-
ity as did William McKenzie, of Carlton
Hill, first mayor of the borough of East
Rutherford, New Jersey, and organizer and
first president of many of the now import-
ant institutions of Rutherford and East
Rutherford. He revived the almost de-
funct Boiling Springs Bleachery at Carl-
ton Hill, set its machinery again in success-
ful operation, and had the proud satisfac-
tion of turning it again into a "hive of in-
dustry,'' employing over six hundred
hands, and by this means restoring pros-
perity to the community. He entered
heartily into the public life of Boiling
Springs township, Bergen county, became
one of the leading Republicans of the coun-
ty, and by his energy, initiative and politi-
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favor of the Republican party, although
once hfmself defeated for the Assembly.
He was one of the organizers of several
important corporations, freely supported all
good causes, and left behind him many
monuments to his business ability, his
public spirit and his devoted interest in
the community of his adoption.

William McKenzie was born in Glas-
gow, Scotland, August 22, 1841, and died
at his handsome residence at Carlton Hill,
Bergen county, New Jersey, April 12, 1915.
He was educated in Glasgow, and became
familiar with cotton manufacture in the
famous mills of his native land, not com-
ing to the LTnited States until he had at-
tained young manhood. Upon first com-
ing to this country he located in New Eng-
land, was with the Norwich Bleachery
Company, at Norwich, Connecticut, for a
period of eighteen years, commencing in
1866, then one year with the Dunnell Man-
ufacturing Company, of Pawtucket, Rhode
Island. He then came to Carlton Hill, New
Jersey, and, forming a partnership, ob-
tained control of the lifeless Boiling
Springs Bleachery, restored it to a condi-
tion of usefulness, and built up a splendid
business under the name of the Standard
Bleachery Company, of which he became
president when- it was incorporated in 1896.
The rebuilding of the fortunes of the
bleachery was not an easy task, but one
that taxed his powers to the utmost, and
for several years after his coming to Carl-
ton Hill, he devoted his great energies and
executive ability to the conduct of his pri-
vate business affairs, the public seeing but
little of him. In 1905 he and his sons be-
came the sole proprietors of these exten-
sive works.

The plant of the standard Bleachery at
Carlton Hill covers more than twelve acres
of ground, and it is the largest concern of
its kind in the world. Its operations con-
sist in the conversion of cotton piece
goods from gray cloths, as they come from
the loom, into the fine, finished products

which eventually reach the market. These
goods, manufactured principally in New
England, are shipped direct to the bleach-
ery. They include lawns, India linens, or-
gandies, crepes, Swiss curtains, Persian
lawns, long cloth, embroidery goods, and
a number of fancy woven fabrics for wo-
men's and children's dresses, in plain and
mercerized finish. Many processes of great
interest are used in converting the fabrics
into the finished product, several days be-
ing spent in passing through the various
stages of development. When finished the
goods are neatly packed and shipped all
over the world, the bleachery having a rep-
utation for careful workmanship, which is
unsurpassed. An average of one thousand
hands are now employed, and the plant is
operated day and night. The village of
Carlton Hill is practically an outgrowth
of this industry's development, and the
company owns eighty acres of land. The
offices of the company are at Carlton Hill,
and at No. 320 Broadway, New York.

When this business was on a firm footing
and prosperity had come to him, Mr. Mc-
Kenzie mingled more with the people, and
hand in hand with other leaders worked
for community good. His first public inter-
est was in township affairs. As chairman
of the executive committee from Boiling
Springs township, he sat in the county com-
mittee, becoming thoroughly familiar with
political conditions, and in 1898 was chair-
man of the Republican county executive
committee, declining the position in 1899.
He was defeated for office in his earlier
days, but that only nerved him to greater
energy, and to his efforts and influence final
party success in Bergen county is due. He
became well known in political circles all
over the county and state, and in 1896 was
elected by the State Convention as delegate
to the Republican National Convention, held
in St. Louis. He was a member of the
Passaic Sewerage Commission for a period
of twelve years.

When East Rutherford craved borough

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dignity, Mr. McKenzie furthered that am-
bition by personal work and influence, and
when it was finally incorporated, was elected
its first mayor, and served several terms.
He was one of the organizers, and the first
president, of the Rutherford and East
Rutherford Board of Trade; was one of
the founders of the Rutherford Free
Library, and its first vice-president ; one of
the founders of the East Rutherford Free
Library; one of the incorporators, of the
East Rutherford Savings, Loan and Trust
Company, and its first president ; president
of the Passaic Lumber Company of Wall-
ington ; one of the incorporators, a director,
and vice-president, of the Rutherford Na-
tional Bank; one of the incorporators of
The Hobart Trust Company, of Passaic, and
its first president ; a member of the Board
of Governors of the Passaic Hospital ; and
in all of these offices his strong personality
and great business ability were valuable
assets. In later years Mr. McKenzie travel-
ed abroad extensively, and cultivated his
natural taste for good books, art, the drama
and the opera. His fine home was "Brae-
side," at Carlton Hill, New Jersey, a beauti-
ful place on the hillside, overlooking the
plant of the concern which he built up. He
was a member of the Union Club, the Royal
Arcanum, the Order of Scottish Clans, and
of various trade associations. He gave
freely of his time, his talents, his means,
to his town and townsmen, measured up
to all the requirements of good citizenship,
and left behind him an honored name.

Mr. McKenzie's sons are : James J., Wil-
liam, Kenneth M. and Bertram D., and' his
daughter is Mrs. Harry W. Pierson, of
Boston. The sons are also married.

WHITNEY, Thomas H. and George D.,

Enterprising Manufacturers.

Since 1807 the name Whitney has been
identified with the glass manufacturing in-
dustry of South Jersey, and at Glassboro,
Gloucester county, the Whitney Glass

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Works perpetuate the nainr in its
to a great industry. Tin Im in> -. which
was incorporated as the Whitney Class
Works in iSX". was founded in 1775 h\ tli,-
Stanger Brothers, < German . \\ In. built and
operated a small plant until 17*0. 'I hi
failed through the deprreialmn of the Con-
tinental currency, and when sold I.) tli.-
sheriff the property u as bonidit h\ < olonel
Thomas lie-ton, of 1 le-tmiville, now .1 parl
of Philadelphia. Colonel 1 lesi,,n and I d
ward Carpenter jointly made the purrh
enlarged the works, and began the manufac-
ture of window gla-s, -hipping their manu-
facture to Philadelphia by Hat-boat. In
1802 Colonel Heston died, and in 1807 Cap-
tain Eben Whitney, of Castine, Maine, a
master mariner, married P.athsheba, daugh-
ter of Colonel Heston, and located in Glass-
boro. Captain Eben Whitney was a son of
Samuel Whitney, descendant of John and
Elinor Whitney, who with live sons sailed
from London, England, to America, on the
ship "Elizabeth and Ann," in 1635. They
settled at Watertown. Massachusetts,
where John Whitney died, full of honors,
June I, i<>7.v ai;ed eighty- four years. Cap-
tain Eben Whitney, master mariner, while
on a voyage from Madeira to Philadelphia,
was wrecked off Cape May. New Jersey, in
1806, and for several months thereafter
was engaged in saving his cargo and in re-
pairing his vessel. During this period he
made many trips to Philadelphia, passing
through Glassboro. He became acquainted
with Miss Heston, they were mutually at-
tracted, and on August 2~ . 1807, they were
married in Philadelphia. Captain Eben
Whitney then located in ( ilassboro. Cap-
tain Eben Whitney was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, March 17, 1780, and died in
1823. His wife, P.athsheba Heston, died in
Glassboro, aged seventy-seven years, and
was buried in the churchyard there. She
was the mother of three sons, — Thomas
Heston, Eben, and Samuel A. Whitney.
Thomas H. and Samuel A. Whitney, be-
coming permanently identified with the glass

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works their grandfather, Colonel Heston,
aided in establishing, and they were con-
nected with the works for nearly half a
century.

Thomas Heston Whitney in 1835 Pur"
chased a one-third interest in the business,
and two years later acquired the entire
works. He continued sole owner until
1840, when he sold a half interest to his
brother, Samuel A. Whitney. In 1842 the
name was changed from the Harmony
Glass Works to the Whitney Glass Com-
pany. Thomas H. Whitney died in 1882,
and Samuel A. Whitney having retired,
John P. Whitney, eldest son of Thomas
H., and a nephew, Thomas W. Synnot,
continued the business as Whitney Broth-
ers until 1887, when its magnitude became
such that it was deemed wise to incorpor-
ate. This was done under the name of the
Whitney Glass Works, John P. Whitney
being chosen vice-president and treasurer,
and later president of the corporation. He
was the active head of the works for near-
ly twenty-five years, then resigned, and was
succeeded by his brother, George Dudley
Whitney.

Thomas H. Whitney married Josephine
Whitney, and resided in Glassboro until
his death at the beautiful homestead "Hol-
ly Bush." He was a man of great business
ability, and of deeply generous impulse
and public spirit. To his sons he left the
priceless legacy of an honored name, and
to them committed the care of the business
he had developed. Under John P. Whit-
ney the business grew to large proportions,
giving at one time employment to about
one thousand operatives, and producing
over six million bottles annually. Besides
five furnaces at Glassboro, the company
operated a plant at Salem, New Jersey,
owned a plant at Blairsville, Pennsylvania,
and a window glass plant at South Glass-
boro. To the Whitneys belong the credit
of introducing many improvements in
glass manufacturing, the result of years of
costly experiment, and it was largely

through them that the recognized standard
of efficiency in machine bottle blowing was
reached. To the head of this great busi-
ness George Dudley Whitney, a lawyer
practicing in Philadelphia, was called upon
the resignation of his brother, John P.
Whitney, in 1907. While all his previous
training had been professional, he relin-
quished the position he had gained at the
Philadelphia bar, and until his death faith-
fully and capably administered the trust
confided to him. He had inherited execu-
tive ability from his honored father, Thom-
as H. Whitney, whose whole life was de-
voted to business, and in addition pos-
sessed a clear, logical, well trained, judi-
cial mind, strengthened by his college
training and years of legal practice. His
brothers, Thomas H., Samuel A., and Cut-
ler Whitney, were associated with him, and
now represent the Whitney name in the
glass manufacturing business. A sister,
Fannie, married Frank C. Hatch, of Bos-
ton.

George Dudley Whitney was born at
"Holly Bush," the family homestead in
Glassboro, March 22, 1872, and died Febru-
ary 24, 1915, youngest son of Thomas H.
and Josephine (Whitney) Whitney. He
passed through an extended course of pre-
paratory study in the best schools, then en-
tered Princeton University, whence he was
graduated A. B., class of 1894. He then
prepared for the legal profession, graduat-
ing from the Columbia University of Wash-
ington, D. C., was admitted to the bar, and
began practice in Philadelphia, where he
successfully established a lucrative business.
After the resignation of his brother, John
P. Whitney, from the presidency of the
Whitney Glass Works, a position he had
capably filled for nearly twenty-five years,
George D. Whitney succeeded him as ex-
ecutive head of the business that had been
so long and so efficiently operated in the
Whitney name. He gave up his legal prac-
tice, and devoted all his energies to the
management of the business. The blowing

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of glass bottles has been an industry that
has witnessed many changes, has passed
through periods of great prosperity and cor-
responding depression, but the Whitney
works have steadily progressed and to the
Whitney brothers the honor of the present
high standard of excellence in machine bot-
tle blowing is largely due.

A Republican in politics, Mr. Whitney
took deep interest in party success, serving
for years on the executive committee of
the Gloucester County Republican Central
Committee. He never sought office, and
when without his consent he was made a
member of the county Board of Freeholders,
he but served his term, then positively de-
clined re-elections. He was a member of
St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church,
a vestryman and treasurer. He was a mem-
ber of the Union League, University and
Princeton clubs, of Philadelphia, and in that
city, as everywhere, was highly esteemed.
He was a man of high character, cultured
and literary in his tastes, a gentleman al-
ways, courteous and companionable. He
never married, but always maintained his
residence in Glassboro, his home a beautiful
country estate.

The funeral of Mr. Whitney was largely
attended, many Philadelphians being pres-
ent, to testify the love and respect they felt
toward their dead friend. Reverend Charles
Bratten Dubell, rector of St. Thomas', con-
ducted the services, after which he was laid
with his fathers in the family plot in the
churchyard. St. Thomas' has ever been near
and dear to the Whitney heart, an attrac-
tive stone church edifice belonging to the
parish in Glassboro having been erected
by Thomas H. and Samuel A. Whitney
many years ago.

BARNETT, William Hall,

Business Man, Ideal Citizen.

William Hall Barnett, who for many
years was identified with the financial and
business world of Newark, and not less

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closely with its religious and charitable
interests, came to that city when but a year
old, from which time until his death he
made his home there. Growing up with it
at the time of its largest development, he
formed for himself a prominent place in its
active life, and left behind him the name
not only of a practical, successful man, but
also of a philanthropist whose interest lay
ever in the betterment of his city and the
assistance of the more unfortunate among
its inhabitants.

Air. Barnett was a native of South Car-
olina, having been born on the twenty-
seventh day of April, 1847, in the city of
Columbia, in that state, the second of the
three sons of James G. and Alary (Hen-
drickson) Barnett. His brothers were
David H. Barnett, of Columbia, South Car-
olina, and James G. Barnett Jr., who was
born in Newark after the family had come
to that place, and still resides there. In
1848, Air. Barnett Sr. removed with
his family from their southern home and
settled in the New Jersey city, where he
opened a clothing store and conducted it
successfully for many years. It was here
that William Hall Barnett received his ed-
ucation, first at Dr. Pingrey's school, later
at the school of Mr. Grant, and finally at
the Newark Academy, from which he grad-
uated in 1864. In that year, Mr. Barnett
being then seventeen years of age, he
joined with his father in the latter's flour-
ishing trunk business, and here he re-
mained ten years, or until 1874, when he
formed a most successful partnership with
Henry Elcox for the manufacture and sale
of jewelry. But Air. Barnett had not yet
found his permanent berth in the mer-
cantile world, and, at length, with T. J.
Preston as partner, took up the linseed oil
business, in which he was highly success-
ful. In 1906, at the age of fifty-nine, he
retired entirely from active participation
in business life, and devoted himself to
those charitable and religious interests
which so claimed his attention. The Home

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for the Friendless was for a long time a
matter of special solicitude to him, and he
served it in the capacity of trustee and up-
on its building committee. He was a de-
voted member of the Central Methodist
Episcopal Church, and one of its trustees,
as well as a trustee of the St. John's Col-
ored Church. Besides all these activities,
Mr. Barnett found time to engage in social
and club life, and a number of organiza-
tions, secret and otherwise, named him
among their members. He belonged to
Kane Lodge, No. 55, Free and Accepted
Mason; Damascus Commandery, Knights
Templar ; Salaam Temple, the Scottish Rite
bodies ; and was also a member of the Es-
sex Club.

Air. Barnett was married to Miss Mary
Wildin, a daughter of Captain Wildin, of
Newark. She died in 1883, leaving him
childless. Mr. Barnett's death occurred on
January 16, 1913, and he left a considera-
ble fortune consisting of real estate and a
considerable quantity of stock in the Mur-
phy Varnish Company. To the Central
Methodist Church he made a four thou-
sand dollar cash bequest.

The life of William Hall Barnett exem-
plifies in many ways the idea of good citi-
zenship, in that it displayed an active in-
terest in so many and diverse affairs of
the community of which he was a mem-
ber. Private and public matters were alike
deemed neither too insignificant nor too
remote for the bestowal of his personal
care and attention, and in both alike he
gave to all that he undertook the best that
was in him.

BENTLEY, Peter (2nd),

Lawyer, Corporation Counsel.

IVter Bentley (2d), of Jersey City, son
of IVu-r Bentley Sr., displayed in large de-
gree the paternal characteristics, and was a
lawyer of excellent attainments, and a
marked capacity for large affairs. He was
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attended no public educational institution
but received liberal instruction under the
tutorship of the Rev. Mr. Van Cleck. From
the outset he was marked for the law, by his
own disposition and the paternal example,
and he early engaged in preparation for his
profession, in his father's office, and under
his watchful care and solicitude. Mentally,
he resembled his father in many respects,
and it was said of him that few, if any, at-
torneys of his day came to the bar so well
grounded in legal knowledge, and concep-
tion of its practical application. On being
admitted to the bar he was at once received
by his father as a partner, and was entrust-
ed with the entire care of office business. Af-
ter the death of his father he became senior
member of the firm of Bentley & Harts-
horne ; this partnership was dissolved in
1886, and thereafter he practiced alone.
While he added largely to his clientele, he
retained his father's former clients, who
held to him with well-reposed confidence.
He frequently championed the cause of his
neighbors as his father had done. In a no-
table instance, he was the successful counsel
in proceedings whereby the unjust water
rents on vacant property and upon property
where water privileges were not used, were
set aside and made inoperative, effecting a
great saving to taxpayers. Again, at the
time of his death, he was counsel for citi-
zens in the proceedings instituted to set aside
the entire tax levy on the ground of gross
inequality in its assessment. Mr. Bentley
was conspicuously successful in safeguard-
ing large corporate interests, to the avoid-
ance of tedious and expensive litigation. He
was leading counsel for the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company, and counsel for the
Standard Oil Company, the Barber Asphalt
Company of New York City, and the Prov-
ident Institution for Savings and the Con-
sumers' Gas Company, both of Jersey City,
and he also rendered important professional
service to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany.

Mr. Bentley married, November 3, 1869,

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Emma Parker, of Jersey City, daughter of
Captain Robert Parker, the owner of Watts'
Island, in Chesapeake Bay, which has been
in the Parker family since its first occupa-
tion in Colonial times. Children : Eleanor,
born July 13, 1871, married Warren H.
Dixon, son of the late Justice Dixon, of Jer-
sey City; Emily, born December 5, 1872,
married John H. Winans; Peter (3d), born
February 6, 1874; Richard Parker, born
September 25, 1875; John, born June 16,
1879; Eugenie, born December 23, 1881 ;
Parker, born June 16, 1884. Mr. Bentley
died in Jersey City, April 30. 1888.

LINDSLEY, James Hervey,

Accomplished Architect.

By the death of James Hervey Lindsley,
late of East Orange, New Jersey, that town
sustained an irreparable loss and was de-
prived of the presence of one whom it had
come to look upon as a guardian, benefactor
and friend. He had fostered many benev-
olent and charitable enterprises, was prom-
inently connected with many affairs which
pertained to the public welfare, was the pro-
moter of business interests of farreaching
effect in the commercial and financial activ-
ity of the town, and especially in his chosen
profession, architecture, had rendered no-
table service.

The Lindsley family is a very ancient one,
and the name is variously spelled Linle,
Linley, Linsley and Lindsley. It was origi-
nally Linesley, and there is a town of that
name in County Lancaster, England, where
this family had their seat. The coat of
arms is as follows : Sable, a lion rampant
between eight crosses pattee fitchee argent.
Crest : An arm in armour, embowed, hold-
ing in the glove a sabre, all proper.

The first record of the family in this
country concerns John and Francis Linley,
from whom all the Americans of this name
are descended. These two bearers of the
name emigrated from a place not far to the
southwest of London, England, and settled

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in the New Haven Colony about 1640. |, ,lm
Linley took the oath of fidelity to tin-
New Haven Colony, July i, 1644, and his
name and that of Francis Linley appear on
the New Haven records of the following
year in a suit for "damadges" as follows:
"Stephen Medcalfe complayned that he was
going into the house of John Linley, Fran-
cis Linley, his brother, being in the house,
told him he would sell him a gunne, the
said Stephen asked him if it were a good
one, he answered yea, as any was in the
towne." The "gunne" proved defective as
was shown by the result and the finding of
the court. "The court considering the prem-
ises, the great damadge Stephen Medcalfe
had susteyned in the losse of his eye, wth
the losse of his time and the great chardge
of the cure, Mr. Pell affirming it was worth
lo1, ordered Francis Linley to pay to
Stephen Medcalfe 2O1, damadges." Bran-
ford, formerly Totoket, was established as
a plantation in 1644 and the names of John
and Francis Linley appear on the records in
1646. They were probably among the first
planters. John remained at Bran ford, where
he died, his children having settled "ancient
Woodbury." Francis came with the first
settlers to Newark, and his name appears
among the forty additional settlers who
signed the "Fundamental Agreement," June
24, 1667.

James Hervey Lindsley, son of Peter
Lindsley, a well-known builder of Newark,
New Jersey, was born in Newark, October
26, 1835, and died August 19, 1899, at
Mendham, New Jersey, where he was
spending the summer. He was the recipi-
ent of an excellent education acquired in the
private school conducted by Rev. Hunt, and
at other private institutions of learning, one
of these being at Succasunna. From his
early years he displayed an unusual amount
of interest in and talent for the profession
of architecture, and his ideas were both
original and practical, as well as artistic. He
studied this profession with the well known
Mr. Hatfield, of New York, remaining the

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associate of this gentleman for a number of
yvurs, then located in Newark, New Jersey,
with which city his business interests were
identified until his death, with the exception
of three years, during which he lived in
Denver, Colorado. For many years he was
the consulting architect of the old Board of
Education of the city of Newark, and dur-
ing the four years prior to his death held a
similar position with the East Orange Board
of Education, where his services were ap-
preciated to the fullest extent, and under
his able supervision the Eastern and Frank-
lin schools were enlarged and reconstructed
and thus changed into model school build-
ings. The Dodd Street public school in
East Orange is acknowledged to be one of
the finest in the entire country. In political
matters Mr. Lindsley was a stanch Republi-
can, but was never desirous of holding pub-
lic office, holding the opinion that he was
best serving the interests of the community
by concentrating his energies in the proper
conduct of his professional work, and thus
improving the city in this direction. He
never, however, neglected to cast his vote
in the interests of the Republican party, his
first vote being given for General Fremont.
He was very young when he joined the
First Baptist Church, now Peddie Memor-
ial, of Newark, and for a half a century he
was an active and devoted worker in its in-
terests. He was a member of the Newark
Board of Trade; a life member of the New
Jersey Histprical Society ; a counsellor of
the Founders and Patriots of America,
being a charter member of the New York
Society; and a member of the Republican
Club of East Orange. At the time of his
death he was in office as vice-president of
the New Jersey Society of Architects, and
many of the finest residences, churches and
schools of Newark and its vicinity were
erected or remodeled by him. His own res-
idence was at No. 440 William street, where
his funeral services were held.

Mr. Lindsley married (first) Eliza Agens
Bruen, who died in 1881, a descendant of

Obadiah Bruen, one of the old settlers of
Newark. There were two sons born of
this union : Frederick Bruen, a resident of
California, and James Mortimer, a resident
of St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Lindsley mar-
ried (second) Adele Halsted Dodd, a
daughter of Stephen Horton and Letitia
(Halsted) Dodd; granddaughter of Sam-
uel Tyler Dodd ; and whose line goes
through Zebina, David, John, Daniel and
Daniel. She was born on the original Dodd
tract in East Orange, which consisted of
more than five hundred acres of land, and
on which six generations of the family had
been born ; the present Dodd street of East
Orange runs through this tract. The Hal-
sted family is an old one of Long Island.
Letitia (Halsted) Dodd, mother of Mrs.
Lindsley, was a daughter of Abram Colyer
and Mary A. (Wilson) Halsted ; a great-
grandmother of Mrs. Lindsley, Elizabeth
Colyer, born June 10, 1771, at Jamaica,
Long Island, married Philip Halsted. By
this second marriage of Mr. Lindsley there
was a daughter : Marion Halsted Lindsley,
and he was survived by all of his children.
Numerous were the resolutions adopted
was a daughter, Marion Halsted Lindsley,
the letters of condolence received by the
bereaved family, and the public expres-
sions of regret which appeared in the press.
The limits of this article will not permit of
their reproduction, but the following ex-
tract from the "Peddie Memorial Church
Journal" must be accorded a place :

"Reference should be made to the loss sus-
tained by this Church in the death of our Brother
Mr. James H. Lindsley in August last. Mr.
Lindsley has been a member of the Music Com-
mittee for a number of years, and was specially
faithful in his attention to the duties in which
he always took a keen and intelligent interest.
It is not known by your Committee at what
age our Brother departed this life, but in an
obituary notice published at the time it was stated
that 'he joined the First Baptist Church, now
Peddie Memorial, at Newark, at a very early
age and for fifty years was active and influential
in all good and charitable work.' With the ex-
ception of a short period following the change

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of his residence to Orange, New Jersey, all those
years were passed in the fellowship of this
Church, for which he had a deep and abiding
affection. He was proud of its history, of its
influence and of its membership ; and loved to
speak of them all at the times when others who
felt less intensely in these matters would have
had nothing to say of Church life or of religious
experiences. He was a gentle and humble Chris-
tian man, of refined and artistic instincts, of a
sweet and lovable disposition. To those whose
privilege it was to know him intimately he was
most winsome, and his friendship a precious
treasure. Your Committee gratefully submits
this tribute to the worth and service of our
Brother in the hope that same may be made a
part of the records of the Church."

GOODBODY, Robert,

Financier, Model Citizen.

Robert Goodbody, a well known finan-
cier of New York and New Jersey, was a
man who lived up to the standard of char-
acter set by a line of distinguished ances-
tors, in the energy and probity of his con-
duct in the management of the many im-
portant interests entrusted to his care. His
grandfather, James Perry, was a leading
spirit in the construction of the first rail-
road between Kingston and Dublin. The
careers of such men as Mr. Goodbody
show the possibilities open to those who
possess good business abilities, and the
high integrity common alike to the good
citizen and the good business man. His
whole life was devoted to the highest and
best, and all his endeavors were for the
furtherance of those noble ideals he made
the rule of his daily life. A nature of sing-
ular sweetness, openness and sincerity,
he probably never had an enemy. But any
estimate of his character would be unjust
that did not point to the natural ability
and keen mental gifts which he improved
by daily and hourly use. He succeeded
better than the average business man be-
cause he had a wider intellectual equip-
ment than the ordinary business man. He
had a profound knowledge of human na-
ture, and his judgment was sound.

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Robert Goodbody was born in Clara,
Kings county, Ireland, July 25, 1850, and
died April 13, 1911. 'Hie schools in his
natiVe town furnished his earlier educa-
tion, and he then became a student at
Trinity College, Dublin, In-land. from
which he was graduated in tin- class of
1871 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Later the degree of Master of Arts was
conferred upon him. He was graduated
with honors, and a gold medal for excel-
lence in mathematics was awarded him.
After leaving college he took up the study
of law, and passed the necessary examina-
tion required to become a solicitor, but
never engaged in legal practice. He or-
ganized the firm of Goodbody & Webb,
stock brokers of Dublin, and became a
member of the Dublin Stock Exchange.
This firm, of which he was senior partner,
was successfully engaged in business for a
number of years.

In 1885 Mr. Goodbody came to America,
and organized the firm of Goodbody, Glyn
& Dow, in New York City, where they
were brokers and general dealers in all kinds
of securities and investments. They were
members of the Stock Exchange, and Mr.
Goodbody himself became a member of the
Stock Exchange after he had become
naturalized. In 1891 he was the founder of
the firm of Goodbody & Company, which
is still in existence at No. 80 Broadway,
New York City. So deliberate, well-con-
sidered and accurate were his methods of
doing business, that he was successful in
all his undertakings. In 1899, in associa-
tion with several others, he purchased "The
Paterson Guardian," and published this for
some time.

During the first few years of his stay in
this country, Mr. Goodbody lived in Orange,
New Jersey, but in 1889 he removed to his
country seat on the outskirts of Haledon,
New Jersey, where he was the owner of
many fine acres of park land, covered with
beautiful native trees. He was very fond of
travel, made annual trips abroad, and as

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he was a fine speaker, and possessed of
rare descriptive power, his conversation on
his travels was listened to with pleasure by
all who were privileged to hear him. He
was active in the political affairs of Passaic
county, a Cleveland Democrat, and wielded
a wide influence in Paterson and Haledon.
While in England he was a Whig of the
Calden type. His favorite form of recrea-
tion was found in out-door sports, but social
amusements also had an attraction for him.
He was a member of the Hamilton Club, of
Paterson; the New York Whist Club; the
University Club of Dublin ; the Reform
Club of London; the New York Chamber
of Commerce; the North Jersey Country
Club, in which he was a member of the
Board of Governors, and was at one time
its president ; and he helped to organize the
Arcola Country Club. His advice in public
affairs was held in high esteem in Haledon,
and he served at one time as a member of
the school board. He was a fine historical
scholar, probably the finest in the county,
and a profound student of economics. His
death, which was deeply and sincerely re-
gretted, cast a gloom over the entire com-
munity, and affected many circles in New
York City, as well as in England and Ire-
land, where he was well known and greatly
beloved. The illness which was the cause of
his death covered a period of two years,
and was of a nervous character, probably
brought on by his incessant mental activity.
His religious affiliations were with the So-
city of Friends.

Mr. Goodbody married (first) in 1872,
Kabelle Dora Pirn, who died in 1878. He
married (second) in 1883, Amy Urwick.
He married (third ) in 1885, Margaret Jane
Pim, who survives him, and is living at the
country place at Haledon. His children,
who all survive him, are : Isabella S., Han-
nah F., Marcus, Thomas P., William U.,
John L.. Dora, Maurice F. T., Agnes E.
and Robert.

DANIELS, Thomas,

Founder of ail Important Business.

In Burlington, New Jersey, one of the
tangible works of the life of Thomas Dan-
iels is a firmly founded and prosperous
mercantile business, ownership of which
made him at the time of his death one of
the oldest merchants of this old New Jer-
sey city. For forty years Mr. Daniels took
part in the business life of his adopted city,
and now, when death has made vacant the
place he so long occupied, nothing but
pleasure accompanies his memory, and
those things which are spoken of him by
his former associates are such as bring
pride and joy to those who loved him and
in return held his deepest affection. Known
to all of Burlington's residents as the suc-
cessful merchant, his connections with
other phases of the city's life were no less
strong, and he combined the qualities of
the man of business, the churchman, the
fraternity brother, and the upright citizen
in a personality and character at once
pleasing and strong.

Descendant of English forbears and a
native of England, Thomas Daniels came
to the United States as a lad of six years,
although he was a man of forty years of
age when he took up his residence and
founded his business in Burlington, a busi-
ness which, after forty years under the
management of its founder, is now contin-
ued as the property of his son and daugh-
ter, Thomas E. and Charlotte A. Daniels.
The years of his mature life prior to his
coming to Burlington were passed in
Brooklyn, New York, New Brunswick and
Newark, New Jersey, and Poughkeepsie,
New York, and during this time he learned
and followed the jeweler's art. But it was
the four decades that he passed in Burl-
ington that brought out the best of his
abilities and talents in business, in church,
and in servi'ce for others : and it is in mem-

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ory of a life that stood beyond the reproach
of any, that typified high-minded citizen-
ship, that was endowed with the virtues of
true manhood, that this memoir is written.

Son of Thomas and Charlotte (Heath)
Daniels, Thomas Daniels was born in War-
rington, England, February 28, 1835, and
in 1841 accompanied his parents in their
immigration to the United States. Thomas
Daniels, senior, made New Brunswick. New
Jersey, the family home, and there he en-
gaged in milling, subsequently moving to
Brooklyn, New York. Thomas, the son,
first attended public school in New Bruns-
wick, continuing his studies in the institu-
tions of Brooklyn after the family resi-
dence was changed to that place. His first
employment was in a grocery store, and as
a young man he learned the jeweler's call-
ing, engaging in this line in Newark, New
Jersey, and Poughkeepsie, New York.

Coming to Burlington, New Jersey, about
1869, Mr. Daniels ventured into a line with
which he was unfamiliar, but in which he
saw greater possibilities and opportunities
than in the business that had formerly been
his field of effort, opening a general mer-
cantile establishment. This he developed
along safe business lines, at the same time
benefitting from his progressive tendencies,
and for forty years occupied honorable po-
sition as a leading merchant of the city,
holding position at the head of a business
based on principles of fairest dealing long
held in the public confidence. The business
that he founded is now continued by his son
and daughter, Thomas E. and Charlotte A.
Daniels, and under their management the
establishment on High street is held strictly
to the worthy standard set up by the elder
Daniels.

Mr. Daniels made his personal business
his chief interest in material matters, al-
though for twenty-three years he was su-
perintendent of the Light and Power Com-
pany, relinquishing this office when the
plant and business of the local company was
consolidated with the Public Service Cor-

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porution. His political activity was
lined to the intelligent and conscientious
casting of his ballot for men and mea
championing the right, and his principal
public service was as a member of the drain-
age commission, his several terms of mem-
bership thereon totalling eighteen years,
\Yith St. Mary's Protestant KpJM-opal
Church he was closely and aeii\ely affili-
ated, and of this parish he was a devoteu
vestryman, giving abundantly of all that
was his to its needs. He was also a member
of St. Mary'- I'.roilu rln.od, and long be-
longed to the Knights of I'ythias. To none
of the citizens of Burlington would this
brief record of the life of Thomas Daniels
seem complete if mention were omitted of
one of the chief pleasures of his active
years, ice-boating. Before the physical
handicaps of old age made such recreation
impossible, each winter found him on the
broad surface of the Delaware with one of
his several swift yachts, often built by him-
self, and in the manipulation of his speedy
craft he was most adept.

Thomas Daniels died in Burlington,
March 4, 1915. The infirmities that came
with his eighty years of age caused his re-
tirement three years prior to his death, but
he had remained in touch with the activ-
ities of his city until his final summons
came. His wide sympathy with his fellows,
his readiness to overlook shortcomings
and to extol virtues, and the straightfor-
ward manhood of his own life were the at-
tributes that won him the love, admiration,
and respect of his fellows, and it is as the
man who quietly and without pretension
performed the duties that came to him
that he lives in the hearts of his former
friends and associates.

Mr. Daniels married (first) Ellen Collins,
who became the mother of his children,
Thomas E. and Charlotte A. ; (second)
Lottie Chambers ; (third) Eleanor Van
Vleet, who bore him Emily \Y.. who mar-
ried Joseph R. Budd : Ada. and Grosve-
nor W.

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BUDD, Eckard P.,

Lawyer, Public Official.

Belonging to Mount Holly, New Jersey,
by right of residence, Eckard P. Budd was
the possession of his party, his profession,
and his State, by virtue of long, varied and
valuable service to all, service discontinued
only with the passing of life. It was both
pleasure and privilege to know him well,
and it is the same privilege, with the sol-
emn touch lent by the keen sense of loss.
in his death, to retell the story of his life.
Some there are who knew him as a con-
stant and loving friend, others as a devoted
and able public servant. Some met him in
the associations of lodge and society, oth-
ers in the work of party and politics, some
labored with him in the cares of business,
others stood by him as he fought and won
the legal battles that made him foremost
in his profession, all appreciated that in
association with him they knew a man
who recognized the highest things in life,
made them his aim, and who, in a life that
could have held no more of useful effort,
ever stood in relations of kindliness and
helpfulness to his fellow men. In the lit-
tle over a quarter of a century of his legal
career he rose to respected heights in his
profession, the instruments of his rapid ad-
vance a clear and firmly founded knowl-
edge of the principles and precedents of
jurisprudence, industry that never flagged,
intellect of high order, and unusual foren-
sic gifts. These were the qualities that
placed him in the front rank of New Jer-
sey's criminal lawyers. When the Demo-
cratic party called him to responsible place
in party councils, he enthusiastically took
up his work, and in county and State la-
bored diligently in its interests. He was
preferred for important political place by
public servants representative of both of
the great parties, and gave of the best of
his time and brain to Burlington county
and New Jersey. In affairs purely of a
local nature he occupied conspicuous po-

sition, and Mount Holly knew and loved
him with the affection a community be-
stows only upon him who has been tried
by every test, who has stood all trial, who
has proved himself worthy of all honor.

Andrews Eckard Budd, M. D., father of
Eckard P. Budd, was born in Woodbury,
New Jersey, July 18, 1816, of Prussian
parentage, his parents coming from their
native land when young and settling in
New Jersey. Andrews E. Budd was edu-
cated in the public schools, Woodbury high
school, and under the tutorship of Rever-
end Blythe, pastor of the Presbyterian
church, who taught him Latin. At the
age of eighteen years he began teaching
in Woodbury, and at the same time con-
tinued his studies in higher English, math-
ematics, and Latin. At the age of twenty-
one years he began the study of medicine
under Dr. Egbert, of Manayunk, Penn-
sylvania, and later entered the Medical
Department of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, whence he was graduated M. D.,
class of 1842. He located in Vincentown,
New Jersey, beginning practice on April
23, 1842. About January i, 1845, ne moved
to Medford, in the same county (Burling-
ton) and there continued in successful prac-
tice for eighteen years. In 1863 he moved
to Mount Holly, the county seat of Burl-
ington, and there practiced until his death.
He was well known and popular, ranking
among the most able and successful practi-
tioners of the county. He was a member
of the District Medical Society of Burl-
ington and of other leading medical socie-
ties. He married, December 22, 1858, Har-
riet Louisa, daughter of Asa Payson, of
Woodstock, Connecticut. Died August
14, 1882.

Eckard P. Budd was born in Medford,
Burlington county, New Jersey, November
3, 1861, died in Mount Holly, New Jersey,
June I, 1912. In 1863 his parents moved
from Medford to Mount Holly, and there
his entire subsequent life was passed. He
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Princeton University, and after there com-
pleting a classical course began the study of
law in the office of that eminent jurist,
Charles E. Hendrickson, of Mount Holly.
He was admitted to the bar as an attorney
in February, 1886, and at once began prac-
tice in Mount Holly. In February, 1890, he
was admitted a counsellor, and November
29, 1898, to the Supreme Court of the
United States, and to practice in all State
and Federal courts of the district. He grew
rapidly in public favor, and on April 7,
1890, was appointed by Governor Abbett as
Prosecutor of the Pleas for Burlington.
This office he held for ten years, having
been reappointed by Governor Werts on
April 4, 1895. His two terms as prosecu-
tor were marked by brilliant and conscien-
tious work on behalf of the State, and
added greatly to his standing as a criminal
lawyer. Had he elected a political career
instead of a professional one, he would have
gone far, but while deeply interested in
local and State affairs, he had no personal
public ambitions and never accepted elective
office save as a member of the Mount Holly
Board of Education, and that but for one
term. He continued in the prosecutor's of-
fice until the State changed its political com-
plexion, and then retired to a private prac-
tice that grew in volume with each succeed-
ing year. He loved his profession, was
learned in its many and intricate windings,
was skilful in their application to the cause
in contention, but was straightforward in
his methods, relying upon the strength of
his presentation of his case and not upon
chicanery or sharp legal practice for vic-
tory. He was a valuable public official and
a strong advocate for the cause he repre-
sented as counsel.

While not a public official save profes-
sionally, Mr. Budd was one of the well
known, strong men of the Democratic
party in New Jersey, and one whose talents
were freely drawn upon by the leaders. For
many years he represented Burlington
county on the Democratic State Commit-
tee, and as a campaign speiker during gu-

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bernatorial and presidential contests, he was
in great demand, his speeches command-
ing wide attention from tin- press of the
State and nation, for he was noted far be-
yond the confines of his own State. In
1901, at the Democratic State Convention,
he was chosen as the orator to present
the name of James M. Seymour to the
convention as the nominee for Governor,
his nominating speech carrying the con-
vention by storm, and standing as one of
the classics of political oratory. He ac-
cepted an appointment by Governor Mur-
phy, of opposite political faith, as member
of the State Board of Assessors, serving
from March 7, 1904, to March 7, 1908. In
every position he was called upon to fill he
served with ability and honor, winning the
highest respect even of hi's opponents,
while as a lawyer and advocate his stand-
ing was among the leaders.

His business relations were few beyond
his profession, but at his death he was a
director of the Camden and Burlington
County Railroad Company and of the
Farmers' Trust Company, of Mount Holly,
also serving the latter as solicitor. He
was a member of Good Intent Fire Com-
pany, of Mount Holly, belonged to the
Masonic order, and was a past exalted
ruler of the Mount Holly Lodge of Elks,
of which he was a charter member. He
took a deep interest in all these bodies, in
fact, his public spirit extended to every de-
partment of Mount Holly's life and his
charity was never appealed to in vain.
Suffering and distress always touched his
sympathetic nature, and instant were his
efforts to relieve the sufferers. Every man
was his brother, and it is no figure of
speech to state that the whole community
mourned his death.

Mr. Budd married Eliza Esculene Bur-
tis, daughter of P. Tallman and Sarah
Eliza Burtis, of Chicago, Illinois, and
Phoenix, Arizona, who survives him, a res-
ident of Mount Holly. Children : Harold
Hume. Dorothy, Grace Esculene, Mildred
and Eckard P. (2).

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HOLDEN, Edgar, M. D.,

Naval Surgeon, Distinguished Practitioner

For forty years president of the medical
board of one of Newark's well-known life
insurance companies, and one of the leading
specialists of his day. Dr. Holden occupied
an enviable position in the medical profes-
sion. He was of early Colonial ancestry,
descending from Justinian Holden, who
came from England in 1632 in the ship
"Elizabeth." His grandfather, John Hol-
den, was an officer of the Revolution, pro-
moted for gallantry at the battle of Bunker
Hill, and was one of the original members
of the Society of the Cincinnati, Dr. Hol-
den inheriting his membership. Dr. Holden
was a man of great ability and prominence
in his own right, his services to his country
and to his fellowmen in both war and
peace bringing him merited distinction.

Edgar Holden was born in Hingham,
Massachusetts, November 2, 1838, died in
Chatham, New Jersey, his summer home,
July 18, 1909, son of Asa Holden, a manu-
facturer of Hingham. He was early edu-
cated in Hingham Academy and James
Hunter's school at Jamaica, Long Island,
prepared for college at John F. Pingry's
school in Newark, and was graduated from
Princeton College, A. B., class of 1859. In
later years Princeton conferred upon him
the degree of Master of Arts and Doctor of
Philosophy. After leaving Princeton he
entered the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of New York City, whence he was
graduated M. D., class of 1861. Both be-
fore and after graduation he served as in-
terne at the King's County Hospital, gain-
ing experience that was shortly afterward
of value to him.

In the fall of 1861 he was commissioned
in the LTnited States navy, and was assigned
to duty on the steam frigate "Minnesota"
as assistant surgeon, and on this vessel
p.i-'-ed through the exciting scenes at
Hampton Roads, where the entire LTnion
fleet was in peri! from the "Merrimac" until

the arrival of the "Monitor." The "Min-
nesota" was saved, and after the conflict
Dr. Holden was placed in charge of the
wounded who had fought on board the
"Cumberland," "Congress" and "Minne-
sota." At the bombardment of Sewell's
Point he rendered such efficient service that
he was promoted to surgeon in charge of
the James River Squadron Hospital at Nor-
folk. Later he served on the steamer "Wy-
andotte," and later as surgeon of the iron-
clad "Passaic," and took part in the attack
on Fort McAllister, Georgia. Following,
he was again assigned to hospital duty, but
at his own request was appointed surgeon
of the steamer "Sassacus," which vessel
after sea service cruising for blockade run-
ners was on duty in the South Carolina
sounds, took part in the attack on Charles-
ton, and fought the Confederate ram "Al-
bermarle," with others of the Union fleet.
In the summer of 1864 Dr. Holden was
made chief of the medical department of
the James River Squadron, but poor health
caused him to resign after a few months'
service. He, however, accepted a commis-
sion as surgeon in the United States volun-
teer army, becoming a member of the staff
of the Ward Hospital, Newark.

At the close of the war, Dr. Holden es-
tablished and practiced in Newark and rose
to a leading position as one of the great
physicians and surgeons of the State. In
18(17 ne became a member of the board of
medical directors of the Mutual Benefit
Life Insurance Company, and was elected
president of the board in 1870, a position
he held until his death. He continued prac-
tice in connection with his official duties
until 1891, when he withdrew from public
practice, his health giving way under the
double strain. Dr. Holden was an acknowl-
edged authority in his profession on lar-
yngology, a department in which he spec-
ialized. In the course of his studies and
practice as a specialist he invented numer-
ous instruments that were quickly adopted
as being a great step forward and of im-

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mense benefit to the advanced surgeon. He
was a frequent contributor to the medical
journals and magazines, his chief thesis on
Sphygmograph taking the Stevens prize
awarded by the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, and later appearing in book form.
At the time of his death Dr. Holden was
president of the American Medical Associ-
ation, member of the American Laryngo-
logical Association, New Jersey State Med-
ical Society, Newark Medical and Surgical
Society, Essex County Medical Society,
New Jersey Academy of Medicine, Associ-
ation of Medical Directors of Life Insur-
ance Companies ; hereditary member of the
Society of the Cincinnati ; original member
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
and of the Grand Army of the Republic ;
member of the New Jersey Historical Soci-
ety, the Microscopical Society, and the
American Authors Guild. He was a volun-
teer writer for the medical journals and
magazines, his statistical papers and mono-
graphs on contagion, sanitation and medical
examinations for life insurance, attracting
the attention of the medical world. He also
wrote a series of war sketches for "Har-
per's" and the "Century." In 1873 ne Put>-
lished his book on "The U"se of the Sphyg-
mograph ;" in 1880, "Health and Mortality
of Newark ;" and in 1883 "The Waif from
Minot's Ledge." He was a Republican in
politics, and a member of the Presbyterian
church, serving for many years as trustee
of the Second Presbyterian Church of New-
ark. In February, 1908, he resigned, but
the board refused for the second time to
accept and allow their long-time associate
to sunder official relations with the church.

KALISCH, Rev. Isidor, D. D.,

Distinguished Divine, Author and Poet.

Rev. Isidor Kalisch, D. D., one of the
most distinguished rabbis of his time, was
born in Krotoschin, Duchy of Posen, Prus-
sia, November 15, 1816, and died in New-
ark. New Jersey, May n, 1886. He was a

son of the Krv. Hurnham and Sarali Kal-
isch, the latter a woman of -tmng intell, , t
and force of character, who dic-d March 14,
1883, at the age of eighty-seven years. Rev.
Ilurnham Kalisch "was widely Known
throughout the Duchy as a man nf learning,
piety and benevolence," ami he "was deeply
versed in Hebraie lore." lie died in Kro-
toschin, September i, 1856, leaving seven
children.

Rev. Isidor Kalisch. the eldest of ill e
children, became even more illustrious than
his father, receiving international recogni-
tion through his public labors and his pub-
lished works. His earliest years already
gave promise of what he would achieve in
later life, and "in his ninth year he was re-
markably proficient in Talmudic and He-
braic learning." Upon the completion of
the curriculum at the Gymnasium, an in-
stitution on a par with our American col-
leges, he pursued his studies in the univer-
sities of Berlin, Breslau and Prague, the
most eminent professors conferring testi-
monials upon him. During this time he
was a steady contributor to leading German
periodicals, notable among these being the
"Breslauer Beobachter," the "Figaro," and
Dr. Julius Fuerst's "Orient." He was the
author of one of the most popular songs of
that warlike period in Germany — "Schlacht
Gesang der Deutschen (War Song of the
Germans) — which was dedicated to the
Prince of Prussia (afterwards Emperor of
Germany), December 31, 1842. and ac-
knowledged by that prince in a personal
note to Dr. Kalisch. The song was set to
music by Music Director Mueller, of Bres-
lau, and at once became the fashion. The
attitude of Dr. Kalisch has been thus char-
acterized :

"Imbued with the love of liberty, and witness-
ing the oppression of his fellow men under the
forms of government and law, his generous na-
ture decried these things ; he wrote poems breath-
ing the true spirit of liberty; contributed articles
to newspapers which were condemned as seditious
by tyrannical censors : and thus when, in 1848,
the revolutionary fever had reached a crisis, he

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became one of the many obnoxious citizens who
were inimical to the welfare of Prussia because
they were stumbling blocks to the progress of
tyranny and oppression. He was compelled to
leave Germany. He made his way to London,
England, and after a sojourn there of several
months, he left for New York City."

After an ocean trip in the sailing vessel
"Rolla," lasting almost nine weeks, he ar-
rived in New York City on August 28,
1849, and m Ju'v> l&5°< received a call from
the congregation "Tifireth Israel" of Cleve-
land, Ohio, to officiate as their minister. In
the same month he assumed the duties of
this position, finding his congregation of the
true orthodox type, that is, they still upheld
obsolete rites which were practically useless
in that time and under those conditions,
however wise they might have been, and
undoubtedly were, at the time they were
put in force. How to remedy this evil was
now his constant thought. The result of
his efforts in this direction was the assemb-
ling of the first conference of rabbis at
Cleveland, in 1855. The object of this con-
ference was to better the spiritual condition
of the Jews throughout America ; to strip
the Jewish divine services from heathenish
and idolatrous customs ; to weed out sense-
less and useless prayers ; and to establish a
uniform divine service throughout the land.
In order to spread this movement he had
himself frequently removed from one con-
gregation and city to another, and served in
cities as follows: Cincinnati, Ohio; Mil-
waukee, Wisconsin, in which city he was
successful in uniting two disputing factions,
•and had them united in worship in one syn-
agogue ; Indianapolis, Indiana ; Detroit,
Michigan; Leavenworth, Kansas. In Octo-
ber, 1868, Dr. Kalisch removed to New
York City for the purpose of publishing a
translation he had made of Lessing's
"Nathan der Weise," and while there
opened an educational institution on West
Thirty-sixth street. He was obliged to aban-
don this at the end of a year, as he had re-
ceived no support in his undertaking, and
having lost all his earnings in this enter-

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prise, he was compelled to enter the lecture
field in order to support himself and his
family. While thus engaged he received a
call to the B'nai Abraham congregation of
Newark, New Jersey, which he accepted.
In August, 1872, he left it in order to accept
the position of rabbi and preacher with the
congregation "Ohavey Scholom," in Nash-
ville, Tennessee, where he remained three
years. He was instrumental in having a
synagogue erected, and at the laying of the
corner stone of this edifice ex-President
Andrew Johnson and the Governor and
State officials of Tennessee were present.
In September, 1875, Dr. Kalisch returned
to Newark, where he devoted himself
mainly to the lecture field and literary work.
His close application to literary labors re-
sulted in the most serious consequences. His
health began to fail rapidly in the winter of
1885, and he realized the fact that his
earthly career would soon be closed. In
spite of periods of intense suffering, he was
never heard to complain and always sought
to inspire hope and confidence in those about
him. His death created a profound feeling
of grief and sorrow in the community in
which he lived, and in every community
where his excellent qualities were known.
Outside of a very valuable library Dr. Kal-
isch left no worldly goods, but he left a far
richer treasure than wealth, an untarnished
name and enviable fame. We may say of
Dr. Kalisch, in the language of the poet:

"We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not

breaths ;

In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart throbs. He most

lives

Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the

longest,

Lives in an hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along the veins.
Life is but a means unto an end ; that end.
Beginning, mean, and end to all things, God."

Dr. Kalisch was connected with numer-
ous organizations, among them being the
following: Oriental Lodge, No. 51, Free

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and Accepted Masons of Newark; Deutsche
Morgenlaendische Gesellschaft (German
Oriental Literary Society), of Leipzig and
Halle ; Mendelssohn Verein, Frankfort-on-
the-Main ; Allgemeiner Deutscher Schrift-
steller Verband (German Authors' Union),
at Leipzig.

As a profound scholar, philologist, and
prolific author, Dr. Kalisch must always re-
main best known to the learned world. He
wrote numerous essays on religious and sec-
ular subjects, maintained and carried on ex-
tensive religious controversies in the Jewish
press, both aggressive and defensive, with
the orthodox and ultra-reform elements in
Judaism, and wrote poems which appeared
at frequent intervals in German newspapers
and periodicals. His lecture on the "Source
of all Civilization" attracted wide attention,
and was reviewed by James Parton in the
"Atlantic Monthly" of August, 1867; an-
other, on "Ancient and Modern Judaism,"
was not less notable ; while still others of
note were on "Divine Providence," "The
Origin of Language and the Great Future
of the English Tongue," "Jewish Ethics"
and "The Life and Works of Moses Maim-
onides." He contributed a series of articles
on the Talmud, "The Wine of the Bible,"
"All Christians Astray on Baptism" and
kindred topics to the "Christian Union," of
which Henry Ward Beecher was then edi-
tor ; and in various periodicals of the coun-
try he published such essays as "Origin of
the Doctrine of Demons and Evil Spirits,
Taught by Judaism and Christianity, illus-
trated ;" "Opinions on the Value of the Tal-
mud by the Most Learned Theologians ;"
"On the Sphere of Our Activities as Israel-
ites ;" "The Old Biblical Doctrine of the
Idea of God;" "On The Science of Educa-
tion ;" also critical biographies of Moses
Maimonides and Haftaly Hartewid Wesely.
His "Wegweiser fuer rationelle Forschun-
gen in den Biblischen Schriften," published
in 1853, received flattering notices from the
German, English and French press. In this
profound work he contends upon the basis

of a critical examination nf the New I •
ment Scriptures that all that is distinctive in
Christianity is derived from Judaic doc-
trines and customs. In 1855. at the solicita-
tion of Professor < lihb.s, «,f Yale Colli
Dr. Kalisch deciphered the Phoenician in-
scription found at Sidon, Asia. His render
ing was read before the London Syr
tian Society, and published in the transac-
tions of that society as preferable to the
translations submitted about the same time
by the Due de Luynes. of I'ari-. K. C. Die-
trich, of Marburg, Germany, and \Y. M. W.
Turner. Dr. Kalisch published a splendid
English translation of Le^in^'s "Nathan
der Weise," as mentioned previously, and
rendered the same service for the "Sepher
Yezireh," the first philosophical book ever
written in the Hebrew language. In con-
nection with this last he also issued a
"Sketch of the Talmud." in which he sum-
marized the results of fifty years of study.
He wrote Hebrew as readily as German,
and as fluently.

In addition to his rare learning and ability
as a prose writer, he was a poet of unusual
merit. In 1865 his German poems, up to
that date, were collected in a volume entitled
"Toene des Morgenlandes" (Sounds of the
Orient). Such gems in this volume as "1 >ie
Mystische Harfe," "Der Teufelstein," and
"Gesicht der Seele," are unsurpassed of
their kind. Of his Hebrew hymns, many
are to be found in the Reformed Hebrew
Prayer Book. Another poem in Hebrew,
read before the Geveland Conference, has
been pronounced a masterpiece. We learn
that "after his death, among his manuscripts
was found a considerable collection of orig-
inal Hebrew poems, tales and fables, and
translations from German and English
poets into Hebrew, which have never found
their way into print." Among his other
published writings may be mentioned his
contributions to Talmudic Lexicography in
the London "Jewish Chronicle" and "He
brew Observer." and in the Juedische Lit-
eratur Blatt, of Magdeburg. Germany ; Eng-

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lish sermons, which appeared in the "Jewish
Messenger," on "Timely Words," and on
"Excellence of Judaism ;" a series of "Exe-
getical Lectures on the Bible," in "The
Occident," Philadelphia; a series of "Con-
tributions on Philosophical Literature," in
"The American Israelite;" "Prefatory Re-
marks to the Book of Esther ;" "The Book
of Antiochus," translated from the Hebrew ;
"A Disquisition Concerning the Time of
Composing the Accents of the Hebrew ;"
"Hebrew Literature and Proselytism ac-
cording to the Biblical Talmudical Laws ;"
"Discourse on the Preference of the
Mosaic Laws," as delivered by Rabbi Moses
ben Nacham, in 1263, before King Jacob, at
Saragossa ; "Contributions to the Jewish
Liturgy ;" "Historical Researches — Who
Was Tryphon, mentioned by Justin the
Martyr," etc.; "Disquisition on Some Lit-
urgical Subjects ;" "The Value of the He-
brew Language ;" "Real Treasure of
Earth ;" "The Jewish Minister as He Should
Be."

Rev. Dr. Kalisch was married, at Jut-
roschin, Duchy of Posen, in 1843, to Char-
lotte, a daughter of Abner and Bettina
Bandman. and this union was blessed with
children as follows : Albert, born Septem-
ber 15, 1844; Hannah, born April 10, 1846,
married Simon Wiener ; Leonard, born
April 12, 1848; Samuel, born April 18,
1851; Abner, born September 2, 1853;
Burnham, born August 5, 1867. Albert be-
came a journalist ; the other sons all became
eminent lawyers.

The death of Dr. Kalisch cast a deep sor-
row over the entire city, a sorrow which
was by no means confined to his co-relig-
ionists, for, whenever there was distress to
be relieved, a difference in religious belief
never affected the aid freely and generously
given by him. The funeral services were
attended by members of all creeds, by high
and low, by rich and poor. The funeral
oration was delivered by the venerable Dr.
Gustav Gottheil, the eminent divine of
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prayer by the Rev. Joseph Leucht, of the
Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, of Newark ;
and resolutions of condolence were adopted
by the Society of "Der Treuen Schwestern,"
(The Faithful Sisters), of Milwaukee, Wis-
consin, an organization which had been
called into life by Dr. Kalisch. We can
give no better estimate of the character of
Dr. Kalisch than to quote a few extracts
from a "Memoir" which was published of
him in Newark.

One paramount aim seems to run through all
his writings and labors, that of mental and
moral improvement. When it is considered how
unprofitable, in a financial sense, such labors are,
in a busy world wholly devoted to racing after
wealth, one cannot but admire the nobleness,
unselfishness, and self-sacrificing character of the
subject of this memoir. Who is there skillful
enough to wield the pen, to do justice to the
memory of a man who despised wealth, and
sacrificed all the years of an active life in
attempting to better the moral and mental condi-
tion of his fellow men? Who is there possessed
of sufficient eloquence to do justice to the mem-
ory of a man who wilfully and manfully put
on the armor of truth and justice, not merely
in a state of defense, but in an aggressive state,
to carry on a life-long war with falsehood,
hypocrisy, deceit, fanaticism, bigotry and super-
stition, a war in which no flag of truce was
recognized, no quarter given, and no blood
spilled — a war of reason against blind faith and
sophistry?

Who is there adequate to the task of faithfully
portraying the character of a man, whose life was
devoid of every selfish thought, whose soul was
en wrapt in the welfare of others, whose greatest
happiness was to observe others happy, and whose
greatest triumph was to see truth, justice, virtue
and enlightenment, triumph over falsehood, op-
pression, vice and bigotry? Dependent upon
his vocation and literary labors for his liveli-
hood, and with a family dependent upon him,
he rather struggled for existence, than to sacri-
fice his opinions and resort to dissimulation.
He did not seek after wealth, but that which
was dearer to him, the establishment of a Judaism
which would be impregnable to the insidious
attacks of scoffers and atheists. He was a man
of original thought. He took great delight in
grappling with abstruse questions of mental and
moral philosophy, theology, or any other subject
which called for the vigorous exercise of his
strong intellectual faculties. His power of analy-

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sis was so strongly developed, that a subject fell
apart, as it were, into many pieces, with mathe-
matical exactness and evenness under his keen
dissection, and not the smallest particle thereof
escaped his mental grasp, until it fully revealed
its integral existence and relation to the whole.
He furthermore possessed the happy faculty of
investing the most intricate subject in a simple
garb, so that it could be readily understood by
the common mind. A strong sense of right and
justice pervaded all his actions through life. So
strongly was he imbued with this quality, that it
produced in him an uncontrollable aversion to-
wards dissemblers and pretenders, and which
his open and ingenuous nature was powerless
to conceal. In the presence of such, his usual
calm and even temperament, his urbane and
genial manner, would become uneasy, ruffled and
repelling.

His charities were numerous, and no solicita-
tion to him for alms ever went unanswered.
He heeded no exertion, shunned no fatigue, when
bent upon a mission of mercy or charity. He
will be affectionately remembered by the many
who have been cheered upon their lonely and
desolate way through life, by the substantial
aid received from his kind and helping hand.
The result of his labors testifies to the efficiency
of his work. In the family circle he was per-
petual sunshine. He was all love, patience and
generosity. He was a kind and devoted husband,
a loving and affectionate father, and a steadfast
friend. To him the approach of death was only
the beginning of that spiritual life, which was the
theme of his earnest life work.

DURYEE, Peter Sharpe,

Enterprising Citizen, Friend of Education.

There are some men whose natures are so
large, who touch life at so many points, that
in whatever communities they may reside,
they exert an influence widely and power-
fully felt. To this class of men belonged
the late Peter Sharpe Duryee. late of New-
ark, New Jersey, a representative of an old
family, whose ancestors were Dutch and
Huguenot settlers at Newtown, Long Island.
The parents of Mr. Duryee were George
and Mary (Sharpe) Duryee.

Peter Sharpe Duryee was born at the
corner of Fulton and Gold streets, New
York City, December 21, 1807. and died at

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his home, No. 40 Park- Place, Newark, New
Jersey, September 23, 1X77. ||. received

an excellent education in privat,
near the country residence of 1 , at

Newtown. Long Island, and was -till a
young man when lie decided to enter up

business career. He removed to \Y\\ark in
1X21, and became an apprentice in the store
of the late William Rank-in, hat manufac-
turer. Devoting himself wholeheartedly to
the interests of the business with which he
had become connected, his fidelity and
worth were recognized, and at the age of
twenty-one years he was admitted to a part-
nership in the firm. The firm was operated
under the name of Rank-in, Duryee & Com-
pany, and the progressive yet conservative
methods of Mr. Duryee raised this enter-
prise to such an extent that it became the
largest concern of its kind in the country.
They had established branches in almost all
the large cities of the Union until the out-
break of the Civil War, at which time the
firm retired from business. Mr. Duryee was
associated with a number of other business
enterprises and held official position in many
of them. He was a director and vice-presi-
dent of the State Bank of New Jersey and
director of the Newark Savings Hank, Xew
Jersey Insurance Company and the Me-
chanics Insurance Com pair . He was ac-
tively interested in the Xew Jersey railroad,
having been one of the original stockholders,
and had charge of a number of its interests.
He was also president of the Mount Pleas-
ant Cemetery Association.

Generously interested in the cause of
higher education, he was a trustee of Rut-
gers College at New Brunswick, and
founded several scholarships there. He was
one of the original directors of the Library
Association, and vice-president of the Ne\\
Jersey Historical Society. He was for many
years a member of the First Reformed
Church, on Market street, leaving this to
establish the North Reformed Church, of
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death, and always a liberal supporter. He
was also a trustee of the Corporation of the
Reformed Church in America.

Mr. Duryee married, in Newark, June
20, 1834, Susan, a daughter of William and
Abigail (Ogden) Rankin, the former being
the partner of Mr. Duryee. Of this union
there were children : 'William Rankin, who
li.rame pastor of the Reformed Church at
Lafayette; Anne Brower ; Mary Ogden;
John Coble; Charlotte Rankin; George
Sharpe ; Joseph Rankin ; Edward Henry ;
Amy Caroline.

In order to give an estimate of the char-
acter of Mr. Duryee, we can do no better
than to quote a few extracts from the ser-
mon preached in his memory by the Rev. C.
E. Hart:

"There was great unity in his character. He
was a practical man of great and ceaseless
activity. Mr. Duryee kept at what engaged his
mind, and worked with intense enthusiasm to its
results. To the spirit and vivacity of the
Huguenot he added the settled purpose of the
Hollander, and showed in his career the value
of such a combination. His life shows the value
of singleness of aim in the application of one's
energies. It is the secret of growth. Such a
course is constructive. It is the foundation of
a name and a character. This practical man had
what is not often found in such natures, an
ardent temperament. He was a man of strong
affection and sentiment, as evinced in his great
fondness for the poetry of Burns and the
romances of Scott."

DURYEE, Rev. William Rankin, D. D.,

Distinguished Clergyman and Educator.

That the influence of the church is declin-
ing, is a remark frequently made by those
who lack the discernment to perceive that,
while creeds and outward observances are
undoubtedly losing their hold upon the
world at large, there is convincing evidence
that the essentials of religion are daily be-
coming more deeply rooted in the heart of
mankind. When the representatives of the
church are such men as the late Rev. Wil-
liam Rankin Duryee, D. D., a professor in

Rutgers College, New Jersey, its influence
becomes exercised in the most beneficial
manner and in the highest degree. He was
the eldest son of the late Peter S. Duryee,
whose sketch appears also in this work.

Rev. William Rankin Duryee, D. D., was
born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1838, and
died at his home in New Brunswick, New
Jersey, January 20, 1897. He was gradu-
ated in the class of 1856 from Rutgers Col-
lege, and for a time devoted himself to the
study of law in the office of Frederick T.
Frelinghu.ysen. In less than a year he had
decided to make the ministry his life work,
and accordingly, in the fall of 1857, matric-
ulated at the Theological Seminary in New
Brunswick, but interrupted his studies at
the end of his junior year in order to spend
one and a half years in European travel.
Returning to the seminary, he was gradu-
ated from this institution in 1861. He was
at once appointed chaplain of the First Ken-
tucky Infantry, but a severe attack of camp
fever obliged him to abandon his field ac-
tivity. In 1863, having fully recovered, he
assumed charge of a mission at East Wil-
liamsburg, Long Island, and the following
year was appointed pastor of the newly or-
ganized Lafayette Church of Jersey City,
New Jersey. He developed this into a
strong church during the twenty-seven years
it remained in his charge, and while the con-
gregation was in a great part a transient
one, he won their confidence and love in an
eminent degree. He had a number of calls
to other fields, but the love of his congrega-
tion prevailed over all offered inducements
to leave them. In 1876 Rutgers gave him a
Doctorate of Divinity, and upon the death
of his father, in 1877, he was chosen to suc-
ceed him as a member of the board of trus-
tees, and held this post until he accepted a
professorship. In 1891 he was elected Pro-
fessor of Ethics, Evidences of Christianity
and the English Bible, in Rutgers College,
and he accepted this as being in harmony
with his chosen life work, although he had
previously declined the chair of History

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and Political Economy in the same institu-
tion.

From the commencement of his minis-
terial life he had been an active member of
the Board of Foreign Missions, and it is im-
possible to measure the extent and value of
his services in this direction. He was pres-
ident of the General Synod in session at Al-
bany in 1883. As a reformer Rev. Duryee
held high rank. As an orator he had few
equals in his circle, not alone as a speaker
upon religious topics, but as a speaker on
any subject, social, educational or literary
in its nature, it was always a great pleasure
to be one in his audience. His contributions
to the world of literature were numerous,
and for the most part appeared in "The
Christian Intelligencer." Published in "The
Hearth and Home" was a prize poem by
Rev. Duryee, and this was later included in
Bryant's "Library of Poetry and Song."
He wrote a number of hymns which have
been published in collected form, a variety
of tracts and addresses, and many reviews
of books and church and religious topics,
mainly for "The Christian Intelligencer."

Rev. Duryee married (first) in Jersey
City, Charlotte W. Nuttman, of Newark,
until her death treasurer of the Woman's
Board of Foreign Missions, and in whose
honor the Charlotte W. Duryee School for
Women, in connection with the Amoy Mis-
sion, was created. He married (second)
Mrs. Anna M. R. (Varick) Goesbeck, of
Jersey City, who was until her resignation
treasurer of the Women's Executive Com-
mittee of Domestic Missions. It is but a
fitting close to this short review to give a
few extracts from addresses made in mem-
ory of Rev. Duryee by those who knew him
or his works intimately, and are therefore
best able to estimate his worth.

President Scott, of Rutgers College, said,
in part : "But it is the students, I suppose,
who will claim him as all their own. Each
one of them recognized in him a 'fellow'
and a friend. His heart kept even pulse with
theirs. When, in the excitement of their

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sports, or in their jollity then hearth
were hurried, his never 1< >M a throb. When
their aspirations were quickened a-, the po
sibilities of a noble life filled them with high
hopes, his breath came ami went a [asl
theirs. And when the time came Ei
pathy or counsel, no wonder, then [on . thai
the heart of the comrade, older in yi
only, gave the steadying measure Eoi
thought and purpose. To every -indent he
stretched out his hand, not to keep him at
anil's length, but to draw him close to him-
self."

Rev. Charles E. Hart, I). 1).. said :
"Among the many elements of gentle life so
mixed in our brother's character, none pos-
sessed him with such power as the senti-
ments and affections which can he satisfied
only with definite and living realities. Ik-
had a clear and active intellect and a sound
judgment ; his reading and learning were
wide, discriminating and enriching; he pos-
sessed a vigorous imagination and poetic
sensibility; a fine literary taste, a quick wit,
a genuine subtle and refined humor in close
alliance with the tenderest pathos. 11
abilities and graces were shown in the pul-
pit, in the contributions of his pen, in
charming letters and lectures, and, not least.
in the social circle in which his presence was
infectious good cheer."

Rev. Jacob Cooper said : "There was
such a blending of strength and beauty, of
intellect and culture, of playful humor and
quiet dignity, making the tout ensemble so
perfect that there is no room for the esti-
mation of special characteristics. — Our col-
league was a man of most varied reading,
and his mind was as bright and penetrating
as quicksilver. It fastened upon grains of
gold and left the dirt and dross. — The in-
fluence of our colleague is appreciated not
merely now that he has been called from us
to a more exalted duty ; but was known and
felt by us from the day he came among us.
— Such characters as William Rankin Dur-
yee, reckoned among her pupils, make a col-
lege rich : and whether alive on earth and

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ministering to her growth, or called to a
yet higher service, are still her priceless
treasures."

DURYEE, Edward H.,

Lawyer, Library Official.

For a quarter of a century identified with
the Essex county bar, associated in practice
with his brother, George S. Duryee, also
< In-eased, and with the late Judge Howard
B. Hayes as his law partner, Mr. Duryee
passed a useful professional life marked by
strict adherence to the ethics of his profes-
sion and the sacred observance of those
laws of probity that exist between men of
honor. His life was devoted strictly to his
profession, the only exception being the
deep interest he exhibited in the manage-
ment of the Public Library in his official
capacity as trustee.

Edward H., son of Peter S. Duryee, was
born in Newark, and died at the Duryee
mansion on Park Place, Newark, New Jer-
sey, December 7, 1905. After elementary
courses in Newark, he entered the Law-
renceville Preparatory School at Lawrence-
ville, New Jersey, and then entered Rutgers
College, whence he was graduated with the
class of '76. Deciding upon the law as his
profession, he began study in the law offices
of Dudley F. Field and Robert E. Deyo, of
the eminent New York law firm of Field &
Deyo, continuing under Oscar Keen, of
Newark, and completing his preparation at
Columbia University Law School, receiving
his degree with the class of '78. He hecran

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his professional career as managing clerk
for Field & Deyo, and was admitted to the
\\'\v York bar in May, 1879. He was ad-
mitted to the New Jersey bar at Trenton as
an attorney in June, 1881, and as a counsel-
lor .-it the June term, 1884. After his ad-
mission to the New Jersey bar he began
practice in X'ewark in association with his
brother, George S. Duryee, now deceased.
This became one of the successful law firms
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State and Federal courts of the district.
Later in life Edward H. Duryee and the
late Judge Howard W. Hayes, formed a
law partnership that continued for several
years, both members of the firm being men
of highest legal standing and local promi-
nence.

Mr. Duryee gave to his profession his
undivided devotion, never seeking public
preferment or accepting political office. He
was a Democrat, and helpful in council, but
took little active part in public affairs. The
one exception was his term of service begin-
ning in 1890 as trustee of Newark Public
Library, where he is remembered by his
contemporaries as one of the earnest de-
voted men who contributed largely to plac-
ing the library in its present condition of
helpfulness and benefit. His social clubs
were the Essex of Newark and the Univer-
sity of New York. Fond of out of door
exercise and sport, he held membership in
several country clubs and there gratified his
love of open air sports. Mr. Duryee never
married.

RANDOLPH, Theodore Frelinghuysen,

Governor, Statesman.

Theodore Frelinghuysen Randolph,
twenty-fourth Governor of New Jersey,
(1809-72). was born in New Brunswick,
New Jersey, June 24, 1816, son of James
F. Randolph, founder and for forty years
editor of the Xew Brunswick "Fredonian,''
and representative in Congress from 1824
to 1830. His ancestors emigrated from
Nottinghamshire, England, in 1622, and re-
moved from Barnstable, Massachusetts, to
Middlesex county, New Jersey, in 1630.
His grandparents were active revolution-
ists in the War for Independence.

His early education was received at Rut
gers Grammar school, and while still a mere
boy, he entered business life as a clerk. In
1840 he went south and lived in Vicksburg.
Mississippi, where he was engaged in mer-

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cantile pursuits for about ten years. In
1851 he married Fanny F., daughter of N.
D. Colman, of Kentucky, and grandniece,
on her mother's side, of Chief Justice Mar-
shall. Soon after his marriage he return-
ed to New Jersey and lived in Jersey City,
and was successfully engaged in the mining
of coal and transportation of iron and ores.
He was also for many years president of
the Morris & Essex railroad, a position in
which he achieved remarkable success, and
showed his administrative and financial ca-
pacity. He was elected a member of the
House of Assembly of New Jersey from
the first district of Hudson county in 1859,
was re-elected in 1860. and was a member
of the special session of 1860, convened by
a call of the governor on account of the
outbreak of the Civil War. He was prom-
inent as a War Democrat, and served on
important committees, including that on
federal relations, and introduced and se-
cured the passage of the first bill giving
relief to the families of volunteers. In 1861
he was elected State Senator from Hudson
county to fill a vacancy, and in 1862 was
re-elected for the full term of three years.
He was energetic and efficient in the dis-
charge of his duties, and served on the
committees on education, civil service re-
form, centennial exposition, and others.
The office of State Comptroller was created
in 1865 and through his instrumentality,
and within five years it is said to have
saved the State $500,000. He removed to
Morristown, New Jersey, where he after-
ward resided, and was elected Governor of
New Jersey in the fall of 1868. His ad-
ministration was vigorous and successful,
and measures advocated and secured by
him have been of lasting benefit to the
State. Among these may be mentioned the
establishment of the State riparian commis-
sion, which has resulted in a large income
to the State school fund ; the passage of a

system of general laws l.\ ial

KgMation wa- avoided. :md tin- repeal .,l
the ( amden \ Amboy railroad m..n.,po|y
tax. whii-li lia«l SO long burdened the Si
lie also originated the plan mi which the
Morris Plains Lunatic .Whim, one ..f tin-
largest in the world, was con ted. Hi-.
Finn course en the occasion of a rim in |. i
sey City on the anni\ei-ai\ of the battle
of the Hoync, July 12, 1871. was much ap-
plauded not only in \e\\- Jersey but
throughout the country. He issued a ]
lamation in which, while he deprecated re-
ligious and factional strife over issues of
the past, he vindicated the American right
to the largest liberty of expression of opin-
ion, and followed it by calling out a brigade
of State troops to preserve the peace,
which they did so that no serious injuries
occurred, although on the New York side
of the Hudson river many lives were lost
on the same day, owing to similar excite-
nent there.

He was elected United States Senator
from New Jersey in 1875, and served until
1881, with credit to himself and hi- na1
State. He was a member of the commit-
tees on mines and mining, military affairs
and commerce, for all of which he was
particularly well qualified. Governor Ran-
dolph was prominent in the councils of his
party, both in State and national conven-
tions, and was for several years chairman
of the National Democratic Committee.
He was a trustee of Rutgers College, a di-
rector in many corporations and institu-
tions, and was one of the founders and
president of the Washington Headquarters
Association of Morristown, New Jer-. •_•.-.
For many years he had been a member of
the Presbyterian church, and after his
death it was found that he had given away
over one-tenth of his income in unostenta-
tious charity. He died in Morristown. Xen-
Jersey, November 7, 1883.

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HEALD, John Oxenbridge,

Lawyer, Enterprising Citizen.

John Oxenbridge Heald, a noted attorney
of New York, whose residence was in
( >range, New Jersey, was a descendant of
one of the oldest families in New England.
The name Heald is supposed to be of Dan-
ish origin, but is found in England in many
generations. The coat armorial of one
branch of the family, as given by Burke, is :
Arms, quarterly gules and azure, in the first
and fourth quarters an eagle with wings
elevated or ; in the second and third, a fret
of the last, over all a fesse argent thereon
between two crosses pattee, a rose, of the
first, barbed and seeded proper. Crest : On
a mount vert a bundle of arrows fesseways,
the points toward the dexter, proper bound
gules, thereon an eagle, wings elevated,
criminois, in the beak a sprig of oak, also
proper ; the dexter claw resting on a cross
pattee as in the arms. Motto : Mea gloria
Crux.

John Heald, the American ancestor, came
from Berwick, England, and settled in Con-
cord, Massachusetts, in 1635, and was made
a freeman in 1641. From him the line of
descent is as follows : John Heald, who
was born in Concord, and married Sarah
Dean; John Heald, son of John and Sarah
(Dean) Heald, commonly known as Lieu-
tenant John, married Mary, daughter of
John Chandler; Amos Heald, son of John
and Mary (Chandler) Heald, married Eliz-
abeth, daughter of Nathaniel Billings, of
Concord.

Daniel Heald, son of Amos and Elizabeth
(Billings) Heald, was born in Concord, in
1739, and died in Chester, Vermont, in
1833. He was deputy sheriff in Concord
in 1774. He would not enroll at the battle
of Concord, but shouldered his musket and
fought side by side with the patriots, join-
ing them at "The Bridge." He served in
Colonel Prescott's division at the battle of
Bunker Hill. In 1775 he served at Ticon-
deroga, and his sympathies were with the

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patriots all during this memorable struggle.
For many years he was a deacon in the
Congregational church. While the Revolu-
tionary War was in progress he removed
to Chester, Vermont. He married Abigail
Wheeler.

Amos Heald, son of Daniel and Abigail
(Wheeler) Heald, was born in Lincoln,
Massachusetts, in 1765, and died in Ches-
ter, Vermont. He was but nine years of
age when he was a witness of the battle of
Concord, and he was thoroughly imbued
with the spirit of patriotism from his earli-
est years. During his earlier years he
worked on the farm in Chester, and later
taught school for a time. He was a man of
prominence in the community, held a num-
ber of public positions, among them being
those of town clerk, justice of the peace,
judge of the county court, sheriff of the
county, and he represented his town in the
State Legislature. For many years he was
a deacon in the Congregational church. He
married Lydia Edwards, daughter of Cap-
tain Ebenezer Edwards, of Acton, who was
a participant in the battle which took place
at Concord Bridge, was at the battle of
Bunker Hill, and worked on the fortifica-
tions at Dorchester Heights ; she was also a
granddaughter of Nathaniel Edwards, who
also fought at Concord Bridge.

Daniel Addison Heald, son of Amos and
Lydia (Edwards) Heald, was born at Ches-
ter, in 1818, and lived on the farm until the
age of sixteen years. His elementary edu-
cation was acquired in the common schools,
and he then attended in succession, Kim-
berly Union Academy, Meriden, New
Hampshire, and Yale College, from which
he was graduated in the class of 1841. He
also read law with Judges Duggett and
\Vashburn, and was admitted to the bar in
1843. He was not alone an able lawyer but
a financier as well, and as a statesman
earned much commendation. As a repre-
sentative of the Whig party he was elected
to the lower house of the Vermont State
Legislature in 1850, and in 1854 was elected

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to the State Senate. For two years he prac-
ticed law in Galena, Illinois, having been
admitted to the Galena bar. After he began
the practice of law in his native town, Mr.
Heald became identified with insurance in-
terests, becoming first general agent then
vice-president and finally president of the
Home Insurance Company of New York.
Mr. Heald was prominent in the New York
Board of Underwriters many years, and it
was largely owing to his efforts that the
National Board of Underwriters was called
into existence. He was regarded as an
insurance expert without a peer, and as a
public speaker on matters of this kind ex-
erted a widespread and beneficial influence.
He became identified with the improvement
of the Oranges, New Jersey, in 1857, and
was a leading spirit in the development of
the beautiful Llewellyn Park; he was secre-
tary of the Board of Proprietors from 1858.
and was the incumbent of this office many
years. He was one of the nine original
members of the New England Society of
Orange, and was twice elected its president ;
one of the original members of the Orange
Valley Congregational Church, and a trus-
tee six years; one of the organizers of the
Orange Memorial Hospital, president of the
advisory board fifteen years, and treasurer
of the endowment fund from the time of its
establishment. Mr. Heald married (first)
Sarah Elizabeth Washburn, also of dis-
tinguished ancestry ; (second) Elizabeth M.
Goddard.

John Oxenbridge Heald, son of Daniel
Addison and Sarah Elizabeth (Washburn)
Heald, was born in Ludlow, Windsor coun-
ty, Vermont, October 18, 1850, and died
in Orange, New Jersey, October 10, 1911.
His education which was a comprehensive
and thorough one, was commenced at Phil-
lips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, and
continued at Yale University, being gradu-
ated in chemistry and metallurgy from the
Sheffield Scientific School in the class of
1873, and then became a student at the Law
School of Columbia University, New York

City, from which he was gi id ted in tin

class of 1875. Hi- established him ell in

tin: practice of hi.- cl i> >n m

the i-ity of Xru York, having ofliee- at No.
<>_' \\all hired, and at No. 141 I '.roadway.
His residence was at No, i.s_- Park avenue,
( (range. New Jersey, in which city hi-
achieved prominence in variou in-l<l>, and
served as president of the .-M-C. md National
Hank ot < (range. Mi- political affiliation-
were with the Republican party, and he .
a member of the 'Trinity Congregational
Church of Orange, lie held member-hip
and official position in many organizations,
a list of these being a- follows: I »elta
Kappa, Phi Theta I 'si, I'-i I p-tloii, and
Scroll and Key societies at Yale; Men-
delssohn Glee Club of New York twenty
years; president of the Mendcl-solm I'nion
almost twenty years ; president of the Yale
Alumni Association of Essex county; presi-
dent of the New York Alumni Association
of Exeter Academy; Society of the i in-
cinnati; University and Yale clubs; New
York Bar Association of New York ;
Graduates' Club of New Haven ; president
of the New England Society: Essex Coun-
ty Country Club.

Mr. Heald married (first) in October,
1876, Gertrude A. Gardner, of New Haven,
who died the following July, lie married
( second ) in Philadelphia, September 3,
1885, Elizabeth Manning, daughter of Jo-
seph Estabrook and Hannah Amanda
(Estabrook) Manning. Children: Ruth
Washburn, born August n, 1886; Daniel
Addison, May 16, 1889; Elizabeth Esta-
IHM ok, horn October 13, 1894, died June

22, 1913.

CONDIT, William Peck,

Leader in Development of Orange.

William Peck Condit, for many \ ear-
prominently connected with real e-tate af-
fairs and public matters in the < Ira-
New Jersey, was a repre-entative of an old
family of Essex count). He possess

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perior business ability, keen discernment
and sound judgment, and his well directed
efforts were a great benefit to the commun-
ity in which he resided. He won the re-
spect and esteem of all with whom he came
in contact, and his loss was mourned in
all circles.

The Condit family of New Jersey, which
played an important and prominent part in
the history of Essex county from its earliest
period down to the present day, is of Nor-
man descent, and the name has had honor-
able mention more than once in English
history. Among the most prominent of the
English members of the family was John
Conduit, Knight, who married, in England,
Catherine Barton, widow, niece of Sir Isaac
Newton, with whom the couple resided dur-
ing Sir Isaac's life, and from whom they
inherited his estate. Sir John Conduit suc-
ceeded Sir Isaac also as master and warden
of the mint, and died January 20, 1739, at
the age of eighty years. His wife died May
27> J737> ag£d forty-nine. Their monument
is in Westminster Abbey. They had one
child who married a Mr. Wallap, eldest
son of Lord Lynington. The Kensington
estate descended to the Earl of Portsmouth.

( I ) John Cunditt, first known member
of the family in this country, came to Amer-
ica in 1678 with his son Peter, and settled
at Newark, New Jersey. He bought land
there in 1689 ar>d 1691, and died in 1713.
By his first wife he had a son Peter, of
further mention. By his second wife, De-
borah, he had a son John, who died before
attaining his majority. There is reason to
believe that his second wife was a widow
when he married her, and that she had a
daughter Mary, who married Captain John
Morris.

(II) Peter Condit, only child of John
Cunditt to reach maturity and marry, came
to America with his father. He died in
1714, leaving a widow and seven children.
From the frequent mention in the Newark
record of the "two widows Cunditts," it
seems probable that Peter's widow lived

with her mother-in-law at least for some
time after her husband's death. Peter Con-
dit married, in 1695, Mary, a daughter of
Samuel Harrison ; granddaughter of Ser-
geant Richard Harrison ; and great-grand-
daughter of Richard Harrison, of Cheshire,
England, and of Branford, Connecticut.
Children: Samuel, of further mention;
Peter, born 1698 or 1699, died July n,
1768, married Phebe Dodd; John, born
about 1701, died about 1783, married Jo-
anna, daughter of Matthew Williams, of
Newark; Nathaniel, born about 1703, died
June 23, 1746, married Elizabeth, daughter
of Swain and Susan (Ackerman) Ogden,
of Orange; Mary, born in 1705 or 1706;
Philip, born in April, 1709, died December
23, 1801, married Mary Day; Isaac, born
1711 or 1712, was living in 1764, and mar-
ried, but wife's name not known.

( III ) Samuel Condit, eldest child of
Peter and Mary (Harrison) Condit, was
born in Newark, New Jersey, December 6,
1696, and died July 18, 1777. About 1720
he purchased land lying between the Orange
Mountains, afterwards called Pleasant Val-
ley. Subtracting from this land five planta-
tions of fifty acres each, he built on each
plantation a house which he donated to each
of his five sons, giving at the same time a
family Bible apiece. He reserved for him-
self a homestead plot of seventy acres.
Three of these farms have ever since re-
mained in the family line of descent, and
it is a remarkable fact that his descendants
have a continuous representation in an of-
ficial capacity in the churches of Orange for
more than one hundred and fifty years. He
is buried in the Orange burying ground,
having survived his first wife more than
twenty years, and his second wife exactly
five months. Their graves are near their
husband, while in close proximity is the
resting place of his third son, Samuel Jr.

Samuel Condit married (first) in 1722,
Mary Dodd, born November 8, 1698, died
May 25, 1755, who became the mother of
all his children. He married (second) in

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1756, Mary ( Nutman ) Williams, born in
1700, died February 18, 1777; she was at
the time of this marriage the widow of
Amos Williams. Children of Samuel and
Mary (Dodd) Condit: i. Daniel, of fur-
ther mention. 2. Jotham, born January 29,
1727, died July 9. 1752; married Rebecca
Pierson. 3. Samuel, born January 13, 1729,
died November 18, 177(1; married (first)
Mary, daughter of Joseph Smith, of
Orange; (second) Martha (Carter) Wil-
cox, widow of Stephen Wilcox, of Eliza-
bethtown, who after his death married
(third ) Deacon Paul Day, of Bottle or Long
Hill, Morris county, New Jersey. 4.
Martha, born October 17, 1731, died Janu-
ary 6, 1831; married (first) Gershom Wil-
liams, ( second ) Jedediah Freeman. 5.
David, born March 17. 1734, died April 24,
1777; married Joanna Williams; enlisted in
Second Regiment, Xew Jersey militia, dur-
ing the Revolutionary War ; promoted to
major, 1776, and for gallantry brevetted
lieutenant-colonel. 6. Jonathan, born Oc-
tober 1 8, 1736, died August 29, 1823; mar-
ried his cousin Jemima, daughter of John
Condit ; was captain of militia, Second New
Jersey Regiment, during the Revolution.
( IV ) Daniel Condit, eldest child of
Samuel and Mary ( Dodd ) Condit, was
born in Orange, New Jersey, December 27,
1723, and died November 11, 1785. He was
a farmer and occupied the land given him
by his father. He was also a soldier in
the Revolutionary army, having enlisted
as a private in the First Battalion, Second
Establishment of the New Jersey militia.
He married Ruth, born December 29, 1723,
died November 23, 1807, a daughter of
Samuel and Jemima ( Williams ) Harrison,
granddaughter of Samuel and Mary
(Ward) Harrison, and great-granddaughter
of Sergeant Richard Harrison. Daniel Con-
dit was a deacon in the Presbyterian church,
and an exemplary Christian man. Chil-
dren: i. Adonijah, born in 1749, died Sep-
tember 13, 1770. 2. Eunice, married Na-
thaniel Ogden. 3. Jemima, married Major

Aaron I larrisi m. 4. Mary, bum I
18, 175(1; married her cousin I'liili]). on oi
Philip Condit, of Morristown. 5. ]
married Sarah Wheeler. 6. \.mo . I
January _', 1759, died March u. iX.u; mar-
ried Dorcas Harrison. 7. Samuel, of fur-
ther mention. 8. Ira. born February 21,
1711!, died June I, iSn, lie uas graduated
from Princeton College, and latei bd auie a
trustee thereof; vice-president and I 'i
sor of Moral Philosophy in Oueen'- (now
Rutgers) College; became a minister in the
Dutch Reformed Church ; married Sarah,
daughter of Henry Ferine, of Freehold.
New Jersey.

(V) Samuel Condit, seventh child and
fourth son of Daniel and Ruth ( Harrison)
Condit, was born August i(>, 17(11, and died
August 31, 1822. After his marriage he
removed to the eastern side of the Orange
Mountains, and resided at what was I'-ni;
known as "Tory Corner." lie was a
farmer, a devout Christian man, a kind
parent, a sincere friend, and a private in
the Revolutionary War. He married, in
1785, Hannah Harrison, born < ictober 29,
17(14, died January 31, 1855, a daughter of
Ichabod and Sarah (Williams) Harrison;
granddaughter of Nathaniel Ilarri-on;
great-granddaughter of Joseph and Dorcas
( Ward i Harrison ; and great-great-grand-
daughter of Sergeant John Ward. Chil-
dren: i. Jemima, born October 7, 1786,
died December 16, 1788. 2. Sarah, born
July 30, 1788, died August 24, 1841; mar-
ried Ichabod Losey. 3. Jemima, born April
29, 1791, died March 28. 1882; married
Samuel Morris Dodd, whom she survived
fifty-one years. 4. Eunice, born July
1703. died November 22. 1882: married
lohn Munn. 5. Harriet, born November
22. 1795. died January 4. 1880; married
(first) Yiner Yan Zanclt Join-, (second)
Deacon Henry Pierson. 6. Samuel, of
further mention. 7. Mary, born November
5, 1802, died December 30, 1881 ; married
Stephen Dodd. 8. Abigail, born March
29, 1804, died April 26, 1880; married

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Thomas D. Kilburn. 9. Clara, born Feb-
ruary 28, 1806, died March 23, 1842; be-
came the first wife of Thomas W. Munn.
10. Ira H., born May 16, 1808, died Janu-
ary 7, 1906; married Phebe Farrand Mul-
ford, daughter of Timothy and Susan
(Kitchell) Mulford, and granddaughter of
Aaron and Phebe (Farrand) Kitchell. n.
Ichabod, born December 6, 1810. died in
1811.

(VI) Samuel Condit, son of Samuel
and Hannah (Harrison) Condit, was born
in Orange, March 22, 1798, and died Octo-
ber 22, 1864. The occupation of farming-
was his life work, and he also devoted a
large amount of time to stock raising. He
was a progressive and enterprising citizen,
took an active interest in everything per-
taining to the welfare of the community,
and was a liberal contributor to church and
charitable work. He assisted in the organ-
ization of the Second Presbyterian Church
of Orange, and was one of its most con-
sistent members and active workers. He
married Phebe Peck, an only daughter, born
June 17, 1801, died March 29, 1848, and
they had twelve children.

(VII) William Peck Condit, fifth child
of Samuel and Phebe (Peck) Condit, was
born March 30, 1829, in the Condit farm
house which then stood at what is now the
northeast corner of Washington and East
Park streets, East Orange ; he died, August
27, 1915, at his home, No. 139 Washington
street, East Orange, New Jersey, after an
illness of but two days' duration. Mr. Con-
dit inherited the farmhouse and the farm
from his father, whom he had assisted in
cultivating it. Realizing the increased value
of the property as the town grew in extent,
he gradually had this property divided into
building plots and sold these to great ad-
vantage. In the course of time a number
of new streets were cut through this sec-
tion under his direction, and he amassed a
very comfortable fortune, a part of which,
however, was swept away in the panic of
1873. Among the thoroughfares he opened

were : Glenwood avenue, East Park street,
Springdale avenue, all these being in East
Orange ; and Park Place and Duane street
in Orange. In his earlier years, after he
had ceased attending the public schools, he
learned the trade of carriage building with
Timothy W. Mulford. but he never follow-
ed this calling in later life, his business
mostly in real estate, especially in Orange
and East Orange. By means of his real
estate operations, Mr. Condit played an im-
portant part in the growth and development
of Orange and of East Orange. In public
affairs his activity was also of a nature to
greatly benefit the community, and although
he never particularly sought public office,
it was tendered him at various times, and he
held it the part of a conscientious citizen
to accept these offers and do his share in
upbuilding the interests of the community.
For many years he had been considered as
one of the leaders of the political affairs
of the Oranges. About 1855 Mr. Condit
served as quartermaster under General Jo-
seph A. Condit ; during the Civil War he
was provost marshal for the Eleventh Dis-
trict of New Jersey; in 1873 he was elected
a member of the East Orange township
committee, and served one term ; he served
as tax assessor and as a member of the
school board of trustees; in 1897 and 1898
was appraisement commissioner for the
Essex County Park Commission, which at
the time was acquiring large tracts of land ;
some years ago was one of the commission-
ers who condemned land in Caldwell for a
projected railroad; in his earlier years he
was a justice of the peace. The fraternal
affiliations of Mr. Condit were with Union
Lodge, No. ii, Free and Accepted Masons,
of Orange, of which he had been past mas-
ter; Union Chapter, No. 7, Royal Arch
Masons, of Newark: Kane Council, No. 2,
Royal and Select Masters ; and the Thirteen
Club of New York City.

Mr. Condit married, in Newark, June 24,
1862, Emily A. (Mead) Olds, daughter of
William and Elizabeth (Hubbard) Mead,

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and widow of James Olds ; she died Febru-
ary I, 1915. They became the parents of
children as follows : Bertha C, who died
at the age of three years ; Emily, of East
Orange ; Mary M., who was graduated from
the East Orange high school and who after-
wards taught for several years in the public
schools of that city, and later in New York-
City ; and Watson S., engaged in the mer-
cantile business in Newark ; mai ried Jose-
phine Sweney ; has children : Josephine,
Euphenie, Richard Edison and Robert
Ogden. He lives at 8 Oakwood avenue,
corner of Main, Orange.

COOKE, John,

Prominent Locomotive Builder.

John Cooke, the president of the Dan-
forth Locomotive and Machine Company,
was born in Montreal, Canada. August 8,
1824. His parents were Watts and Lavinia
(Donaldson) Cooke, natives of County
Armagh. Ireland. His ancestors on his
father's side were English, on his mother's
side Scotch, having emigrated to Ireland
during the persecution.

Watts Cooke was a carpenter by trade,
and emigrated to this country about 1822,
with his wife and one son. He landed at
Quebec and proceeded at once to Montreal,
where an older brother worked at his trade
on the famous Notre Dame Cathedral at
that place. The climate and society of
Montreal being uncongenial, in 1827 he re-
moved to the city of Albany, New York,
where he worked in Townsend's furnace
until 1832, acquiring meanwhile the trade of
pattern-maker. He then entered the employ
of the Matteawan Machine Company,
Dutchess county, New York, where he en-
gaged in pattern-making. He was an ex-
cellent mechanic, and possessed superior
ability in the manufacture of mill-gearing.
In the summer of 1839 he removed to Pat-
erson, New Jersey, and entered the works
of Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor, where
he worked at pattern-making. He subse-

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(|lirntly worked for I >;m forth. ( ooke A < 0.
as pattern-maker until 1X51). when he
Hi ed hom active life. I le die.l in iX-i,, and
his wife in |8<><). lie wa- :in industrious
and ahle mechanic, and performed tl
of life in a modest and faithful man
In politics he was not con^piruon,. hnl al-
ways an anti-slavery man and a staunch
Republican, and never mis-ed depositing his
ballot. He was one of the founders of the
Presbyterian church at Mat u whi'-h

he held the office of deacon, and durini; his
residence at Paterson was a member and
supporter of the Second Presbyterian
Church. Ten children were born to Mr.
and Mrs. Cooke. of whom nine are living,
five daughters and four sons, viz.: John.
the subject of our sketch : William, who
engaged in the machinery supply business
in New York; Watts, president of the Pas-
saic Rolling Mills. Paterson; and James,
who has been superintendent of the Dan-
forth Locomotive and Machine Company.
The earlier life of John Cooke was in-
timately identified with that of his father.
and his opportunities for obtaining an educa-
tion were very limited. In the district
school, the cotton factory, and the machine
shop he acquired a fair English education.
and obtained such knowledge of machinery
and active manufacture a- v.as of great
benefit to him in after life. In 1839 he
came to Paterson with his father. After ar-
riving in that city he enjoyed three months
schooling under John D. Kiley, a teacher of
great ability and culture, and possessed of
fine oratorical powers. In August, 1831), at
the age of fifteen, he entered the employ of
Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor, who were
at that time engaged in the manufacturing
of locomotives and machinery. He learned
the trade of pattern-making, and remained
an apprentice until he attained his majority.
During which time he spent many of his
leisure hours in the study of mechanics and
mechanical drawing. William Swinburne,
the superintendent, withdrew from the i
cern in 1844 in order to establish the firm of

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Swinburne, Smith & Co., machine makers,
and was succeeded for a time by Stephen
Thurston, formerly from Matteawan, who
resigned the position after nine months ser-
vice.

Mr. Cooke, who was then twenty-one
years of age and had already attracted the
attention of Mr. Rogers, was appointed the
successor of Mr. Thurston, and installed in
the office of draughtsman and superintend-
ent of the locomotive-shop, which carried
with it at that time the general superin-
tendency of the business. Thus early in
life had his close application to business, his
skill and ability as a mechanic, and his
fidelity in the performance of his duties re-
ceived the recognition of the leading locomo-
tive-maker of the United States. Fie re-
mained as superintendent of the Rogers
Works, during which time many valuable
improvements and changes in the business
of locomotive manufacture were made, until
August i, 1852, when, although offered an
interest with Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor
if he would remain, he resigned the position
to join Charles Danforth, Major John Ed-
wards and Edwin T. Prall in the manufac-
ture of cotton machines, cotton yarns, and
locomotives. The firm name was Danforth
Cooke & Co. Previous to that time Messrs.
Danforth & Edwards had engaged simply
in the manufacture of machinery and cot-
ton yarn, and Mr. Prall had been their book-
keeper and general business manager. Mr.
Cooke was brought into the concern as one
thoroughly versed in the manufacture of
locomotive engines, and was given a prom-
inent place in the firm and the superin-
tendency of the locomotive department, the
making of which was entered upon simul-
taneously with his connection with the firm.
Suitable shops for that purpose were soon
erected, many of the special tools needed for
the purpose of manufacture were made in
the shop under Mr. Cooke's superintend-
ence, and the first engine, the "Vincennes,"
was built for use on the Ohio & Mississippi
railroad in the winter of 1852. Some delay

occurred in the construction of the road, so
that the first engine actually delivered by
the concern was in March, 1853. It was
named the "Sandusky," the same as that
first produced by the Rogers Works in 1836.
One hundred and two engines were made in
1 88 1, although the works had not got quite
into full operation at the beginning of the
year owing to their destruction by fire the
preceding year. In 1865 the firm of Dan-
forth, Cooke & Co. assumed the corporate
name of the Danforth Locomotive and Ma-
chine Co., with Mr. Danforth as president,
and Mr. Cooke as superintendent of the
locomotive department and as a member of
the executive committee, which carries with
it the office of president pro temporc, or
vice-president. In 1866 the latter resigned
this office to visit Europe as a means of
improving his health, which had become im-
paired by years of labor and toil, and was
succeeded by Major John Edwards in the
position of member of the executive com-
mittee, and his brother James as superin-
tendent of the locomotive department. Mr.
Cooke returned in 1869, and was elected
director and treasurer of the company in
1870. He held this position until 1872,
when, upon the resignation of Mr. Dan-
forth, he became president of the company,
a position that he filled in an acceptable
and successful manner until his death, Feb-
ruary 20, 1882. The works of the company
were among the largest and most successful
in the United States.

The abilities of Mr. Cooke as a mechanic
and as an executive officer have long been
recognized by those familiar with the busi-
ness of locomotive building. He made
a number of important contributions to the
science of locomotive construction, for
which he neither asked nor received
special credit. He had taken out but few
patents, and did not claim to be an inven-
tor, considering that a locomotive builder
who watches carefully the construction of
his work and looks after a large force of
men has no time to spend on patent im-

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provements. During the thirteen years that
he was employed at the Rogers Works a
number of radical and progressive change-,
were made in the building of locomotive
engines, with most of which he was identi-
fied, being in the closest sympathy with Mr.
Rogers in the adoption of all improvement.
Among the most important of these were
four and six drivers, instead of one pair,
and the improved valve motion, which re-
sulted in great economy in fuel and in
increased speed. The greatest improvement
in the locomotive since the building of the
"Rocket" by Stephenson, and one which was
never patented, the link motion, was also
applied during the time that Mr. Cooke was
connected with the Rogers Works ; and the
first model, from a drawing sent over from
England, and showing the action of the
valve affected by the invention was made
by him about 1864. Soon after the prin-
ciple was applied by Mr. Rogers to a loco-
motive, and has since come into general use.
Mr. Cooke confined himself very closely
through life to mechanical and constructive
pursuits, although feeling an active interest
in events transpiring around him, and being
identified with many local movements of
importance. In politics he was known as
an extreme anti-slavery man. and voted for
John C. Fremont in 1865. He was one of
the organizers of the Republican party in
Paterson, was treasurer of the central com-
mittee, and active in the establishment of the
"Paterson Republican," afterward absorbed
by the "Guardian." He was also one of the
seven trustees appointed by the subscribers
to establish the "Paterson Press." He rep-
resented the South Ward in the board of
aldermen of Paterson in 1858 and subse-
quently filled the position of president of
the Board of Education of that city, which
he resigned because of ill health. He was
one of the organizers of the First National
Bank of Paterson. and was vice-president.
He was also vice-president of the Paterson
Savings Institution, and the Paterson Board
of Trade : a director of the Passaic Rolling

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MilN. and also of the I 'atCl • ii •
( Ompany. lie wa a number ami regular
attendant of tin- Second nan

Church of I'aterson, and fur many y<
\\a~- the superintendent of the Sabbath
Schoi '1 connected \\ ith that dnn-ch.

I le mai ried. in iS;o. . V. daugh-

ter of William Sw inhume, of P
who had six children, of wlmm four
living : ( larrie S., wife of Jolm K. I;.
Jolm Swinburne, a ate of Steven-' In-

stitute, I lohoken ; Frederick William, and
Charles I).

MARGARUM, Theodore Frelinghuysen,

Financier, Public Official.

In modern age- and to a large extent in
the past, banks ha\ • n dinted a vital part
of organized society, and government-, both
moiiarchial and popular, have depended
ii] 'on them for material aid in times of i
pression and trouble. Their inllin
extended over the entire \\orld. and their
prosperity has been the barometer which
has unfalteringly indicated the financial
status of all nation-. (>f this important
branch of business .Mr. Theodore Frcling-
huysen Margarum, late < if Sussex, X'ew Jer-
sey, was a worthy repre-entati\ e. For n
than a quarter of a century he held the re-
sponsible position of cashier of the Farmers'
National Bank of Deckertown. and later
its honored and efficient president.
conservative and safe policy, supplemented
by modern progressiveness, was an imp' rl
ant factor in insuring the success of the in-
stitution and made it one of the nio-t rcli
financial concerns in tb nty.

Mr. Margarum was a nati\e of S
holm, New Jersey, born June 7. iS:
of Stephen F. and Lucy f Hammond i Mar-
garum, and died November iS.
ancestral history was one of long and •
identification with this section 'ate.

Hi- father was one of the leading busin
men of Sussex county, where in addition
to farming he operated a f' >rge and a -aw
and grist mill. He carried on his h:--iness af-

CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW JERSEY

fairs on an extensive scale for those days,
and in matters of public concern he exerted
considerable influence. Born June 3, 1/93,
he died in 1852, and his wife, who was
born in 1799, passed away in 1884. Their
family numbered seven children : Cath-
erine, wife of S. T. Lazer, of Warwick,
New York ; Lucy, who died in childhood ;
David F. ; Mary, wife of Rev. D. E. Fram-
bes, of Cape May, New Jersey ; N. H., who
is living on the old family homestead in
Sussex county ; Edward S., who died at the
age of twenty-four years.

Theodore Frelinghuysen Margarum was
educated in the seminary at Pennington,
New Jersey, and in Wyoming Seminary, at
Kingston, Pennsylvania. Upon the com-
pletion of his education he entered upon his
business career in Newton as clerk in a
mercantile establishment. In 1865 he went
to Norfolk, Virginia, with a view of enter-
ing business there, but after a year re-
turned to Newton, and for fifteen years was
connected with its business interests as clerk
and principal in a mercantile establishment.
For some time he was connected with the
house of Stoll, Dunn & Company, and then
embarked in business independently. He
was successful in his undertakings, and his
well directed efforts brought to him a com-
fortable competence. In 1874 he came to
Deckertown to accept the position of cashier
in the Farmers' National Bank. The de-
posits in the institution at the time ranged
from $35,000 to $50,000. but were increased
to $250,000 — a fact which plainly indicated
the healthy growth of the bank and its thor-
ough reliability. Not a little of its success
was due to the careful management and
progressive spirit of Mr. Margarum, who
was the popular and efficient cashier, and
later the president. He was chosen to the
latter office in May, 1894, upon the death of
his predecessor, John A. Whitaker. He was
regarded as one of the safe and substantial
business men of Sussex county, and in addi-
tion to his banking interests he oversaw a
large amount of property, and had in trust

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a number of extensive estates, among them
those of General Hugh Kilpatrick and the
Hon. John Loomas.

Mr. Margarum was united in marriage
to Miss Isabel Whitaker, a daughter of
John A. Whitaker, for many years one of
the most honored residents of Sussex coun-
ty. Their beautiful home on Bank street
was one of the fine residences of the town,
and its hospitable doors were ever open for
the reception of their many friends. They
had children : Mary, Mattie and Ford W.

In his political connections Mr. Mar-
garum was a stalwart Republican, giving an
unwavering support to the men and meas-
ures of the party from the time he cast his
first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln
in 1864. Well informed on the issues of
the day and deeply interested in the welfare
of the community, he was called to public
office and therein discharged his duties with
marked fidelity. After the incorporation of
Deckertown as a borough he was elected
its first mayor and filled that office for three
consecutive terms, from 1892 to 1895, in-
clusive. His administration was an able
one, in which the best interests of the town
were greatly advanced. Every effort put
forth to promote the welfare of the town
received his support and co-operation, and
he was regarded as one of the most valued
residents of Deckertown. He was a man of
high intellectuality, broad human sympathies
and tolerance, and imbued with fine sensi-
bilities and clearly defined principles. Honor
and integrity were synonymous with his
name, and he enjoyed the respect, con-
fidence and high regard of the entire com-
munity, as the appended eulogy and resolu-
tions show. The "Sussex Independent" of
November 24, 1905. said of him :

Last Saturday night, at 10.45 o'clock. Theodore
F. Margarum, one of the best and most favorably
known men in the county, died at his home in the
Borough of Sussex. The flight of his spirit
leaves an immense void in his circle of friend-
ship and kinship. In every station in life he
acted well his part. While he possessed a ten-
derness of heart not known to many, he strove

CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW JERSEY

always to do justice to all, and was patient of tin-
faults of others. He shrank from no respoitsi-
bility which he should assume, and lie maintained
the dignity of manhood. He had a commanding
intellect, and while of a quiet, mild and modei.u.
nature, he impressed noble ideas of honor upon
those around him. Human sentiments an- strong-
ly affected by associations. The companions and
friends of Theodore Margarum were thr better
in the higher purposes of life for his friendship
and personal contact. He was fond of the so-
ciety of men younger than himself. He infused
high impulses into more youthful minds ; and
while as a human being he is no more, his in-
fluence will extend along the avenue of life so
long as memory shall last.

A personal friendly relationship of thirty years,
which involved almost daily contact, made known
to the writer the high purposes of his life, his
aspirations and his hopes for those who looked
to him as father and friend. The writer also
knew his generous consideration for those de-
pendent upon him and those who lovingly cared
for him in his illness. He was our staunch
friend, when friends were needed; a good, safe
adviser, when advice was needed.

At the announcement of his death we were
taken back over the years and incidents of his
kindness in our personal relations, and we won-
dered not that his departure touched the chords
of public sympathy, for we are only one of many
whose hearts go out in the same sad phase of
human experience. All who knew him testify
to his integrity of purpose, his fidelity in ser-
vice, and his absolute uprightness of character
in public and private life. He has left a legacy
of memories and of good name valuable far
beyond any worldly possession. As another
mound is raised in the familiar cemetery and
another name added to the long list of friends
who have gone to the other shore, there comes a
feeling of deep satisfaction from the hope that
by-and-by we will all be there ; and then, no more
death, no more mourning, no more grief. There
was not the least pretence nor hypocrisy in the
nature of Mr. Margarum, and when his hour
came he died as he had lived, relying upon the
justice and mercy of his Maker. If his irre-
proachable life hath its reward in the other world
his spirit is peaceful and happy in the abode of
the blessed.

Resolutions passed by the board of direc-
tors of the Farmers' National Bank of Sus-
sex, upon the death of Theodore F. Mar-
garum :

Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to re-

move I heodore !• Mai gai urn, v. h
1. 1 med and and,

Whereas. In recognition «.i his worth ami i-liar-

aeter the Koai d ..I Direcl

National Haul, oi

proper to mule in a It ibute to 1

fore.

Resolved, 'I lial in tin dealli "I 'I lie. , dot-
Margarum. Sir- le •- < OUHt] lu !
most loving citi/.n, and i t hankers; that he-
was a man of high character ami m.l.le at-
ments ; that In- was Ixild ami linn in his otticial
(littles, hut at the same time kind ami
Mis thought was pmh.iiml ami his judgment tin-
best. He had a clear mind and a deep intell. et.
and his wisdom was SOU "ling, middl'-

aged and old. P.y his activity, industry and g
management the hank Nourished, lie had a mild
and loving disposition, always a pleasant word
and good cheer to those whom he met. ami was
friendly and social to all classes, drawing tl
to him, so that his friends were almost number-
less. He was kind-hearted, a good iieighhor. a
friend to the poor, always generous and liei •
lent, and his hand was open to help the needy
He was one of the best of citi/ens, always ready
to contribute to every good cause. His was a
good life. He was a Christian gentleman, and
we believe that since God has called hun to his
reward, he is among the righteous in heaven.

Resolved, That in further respect to the mem-
ory of this kind esteemed hanker and citizen we
recommend that this tribute be spread upon
minutes of the bank and a copy sent to the
family, and that it be published in the Su
Independent and Wantage Recorder.

A. WAI so\ SLOCKBOWER,
CHARLES A. WILSON,
S. CHRISTIE HAYNE,
LEO P. WISE,

Committee on Resolutions.

BOISAUBIN, Vincent.

Noted Soldier and Divine.

Vincent Classe Van Schal-Kwyck Bois-
aubin was born in the parish <u" l'<>rt l."iii-.
island of Guadeloupe. French West Indies
April, 1755, died at his residence near M<T-
ristown, New Jer-ey, in June. lS.^4-

Rev. Father Dutertre, an eminent divine
and author, in his invaluable history <>f the
French West India islands < I listen-
Antilles), has traced the hi-t<>ry <>f the is-

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land of Guadeloupe from its first settlement
in the year 1625, under French auspices, to
the year 1667, and since that time Dessalles
and other well known writers have com-
pleted the narrative of events occurring in
the Antilles down to more modern times.
\Ye learn from them the great hardships
these colonists suffered, of their long and
terrible wars with the native Caribs, how
after many years those savages were finally
subdued, and how in 1674 the island of
Guadeloupe was made a colony of France
during the reign of Louis XIV. From this
time the colonists took part in all the great
wars waged by the mother country, from
which they suffered severely. Valiant and
successful resistance was made by them
against the attacks of the English in the
years 1666, 1691 and 1703, and during most
of this time they contended single-handed
against this formidable foe. France, being
so engrossed in her vast continental wars,
was unable to render her colony material^'
assistance, owing to which and other causes
the island capitulated in 1759 to Great
Britain, and remained a British colony until
the year 1763. After throwing off the Brit-
ish yoke, in the war of 1794 they were again
captured by their old enemy, who, however,
in June of the same year was expelled by
the colonists from their beloved sqdL under '
the leadership of officers sent by tW§*'F'rench
national convention. In the yeariSio, Eng-
land was again victorious, holding posses-
sion until the treaty of 1813, when the island
was ceded to Sweden. In 1816 the French
General Boyer de Peyreleau obtained a foot-
ing in the island when, negotiations inter-
vening, the English withdrew, from which
time the island has remained a colony of
France.

This brief resume of the severe trials and
sufferings of this brave people is given to
show in what mold this valiant race was
cast, and how, almost single-handed, they
defended their country, contending against
one of the most powerful nations of the
world, and how at last they secured their

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colonial independence ; and furthermore, to
show that it was from such heroic an-
cestors that the subject of this sketch was
immediately descended. Also, Mr. Boi-
saubin was of good old Dutch stock, his
father being a Van Schal-Kwyck, a lineal
descendant of the Van Schal-Kwycks of the
town of that name (the family ancestral
home), situate in the province of Utrecht,
Holland. In 1630 the Baron Van Schal-
Kwyck, with his followers and many other
compatriots, was banished from his native
country for reasons political and religious.
He found refuge in Brazil, where for sev-
eral years he and his fellow countrymen
enjoyed peace and prosperity. War having
been declared between Portugal and Hol-
land, the refugees were again obliged to
flee, and in their own vessels sailed for the
French Antilles.

Air. Boisaubin was born in the year above
stated, and at the age of seven was sent to
Paris for his education, after the comple-
tion of which, at the age of seventeen, he
was enrolled as a member of the famous
Garde de Corps of King Louis XVI, which
was composed of the nobility only, being
commanded by the Duke of Luxembourg.
He served therein for sixteen years, at-
tainlqg the grade of first lieutenant. Hav-
ing (Jbtained leave of absence for the pur-
pose of visiting his estates in the island of
Guadeloupe, he happened there when the
French revolution, with its attending hor-
rors, broke out. Its emissaries reaching the
island. Mr. Boisaubin, being a well known
and devoted royalist, was obliged to flee
in order to save his life. Hastily gathering
what valuables he could, he took passage
with his family and body servants on an
American vessel bound for the United
States. His parting with his slaves, some
twelve hundred in number, was most affect-
ing. Having been to them a kind and pro-
tecting master, they were greatly attached
to him and wished to follow him and share
his fallen fortunes. As the vessel on which
he was to sail was lifting anchor, a negro

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was discovered in the water alongside. Mr.
Boisaubin recognized him as one of his
slaves; the faithful creature, wishing to
join his master, swam three miles from
shore to gain the ship! Mr. Boisaubin, in
the kindness of his heart, was unable to
refuse the appeals of the devoted black, and
brought him to the United State-.

Morristown, New Jersey, being a town
well known to most Frenchmen, by reason
of the reports of travelers and of the French
officers who had served with Washington,
with many of whom Mr. Boisaubin had been
acquainted in France, he determined to
make that place his home, which he eventu-
ally did, purchasing a tract of land midway
between Morristown and Bottle Hill (now
Madison). Here he settled and began the
life which he ever after maintained, — that
of a plain Jersey farmer. The mercenaries
of the Revolution having seized upon his
estates, he found himself impoverished, and
was obliged to earn his living in the same
ways as did his farmer neighbors. Upon
his arrival in this democratic country he
dropped his titles to nobility, and, adopting
the name of one of his plantations in Guade-
loupe, became simply Vincent Boisaubin,
which name he bore ever afterward.

In a few years after Mr. Boisaubin's ar-
rival in America, the great Emperor Na-
poleon, wishing to have it known that he
was friendly to his royalist subjects, though
opposed to the Bourbon family, magnani-
mously restored to them the estates and
properties which the Revolutionists had con-
fiscated. Thus Mr. Boisaubin entered into
his own again, and with return of wealth
he extended aid to neighbors and friends .
in distress with lavish hand. Later on.
Charles X., king of France, wrote Mr.
Boisaubin an autograph letter, inviting his
return to France to resume at his court the
high position previously held by him under
the good but ill-fated Louis XVI. The
veteran of the Garde de Corps in courteous
terms replied, "that having found peace and
justice in this noble land, he was content to

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abide tin-rein, and devote hi- besl enei
for i! - advancement and prosperity!" It

wa the same kin- ;ir,|

tin- In- ma

-cut, the iiiiu-h coveted In •

de St. Louis, ,m<l

jewels of tin -it and ren. >u -n<-d

order nf kniglitln H ,<1. Flic f<.ll.,\vin^ .ibitu-
ary imtia-. tal.en from the Newarl "li.iily
Advcin-ei." of June u. iS^i, i- a
tribute t«. tlii- great character and natu
nobleman :

"I )ic>I "• lii 8th instant at Ir
Morrisioun, \ m, , nt ( la e \ ai
Boisaubin. Esquire, in tin- eightic t • his

age. The death of this distinguished eiti/i-u and
philanthropist is a serior

which hi- wa- an ornament, and will lie feelingly
deplored hy a large circle of friend-, and
quaintances. lie was a n. .1,1, -man in
sense, who exhibited in all his ini with

society those qualities of mind and heart which
dignify and adorn the human character. Mr.
Uoisaubin was a native of tin: island of Gi:
loupe, though educated in France under dis-
tinguished advantages, and emigrated this
country during the frightful troubl •• that is-
land consequent upon the I-'rei
He settled at Bottle Hill within about thr. r miles
of Morristown, where In- 1 during a
period of forty \ ears, universally beloved and
respected, conspicuous by Ir i orm and
bearing, his polished and courteous manners and
the munificence of his chariti* t of
the con -nuiiity which ki: , ap-
preciate these qualities was properly evinced on
the occasion of his funeral. The sto>
closed, and it has been remarked to us that
nearly the whole adult population were as
bled at the interment. It was a distinguished
expression of feeling that within a mile of the
cemetery the horses were spontaneously taken
from the hearse, which was thence drawn '
company of his oldest and most worthy neigh-
.uibin leaves a family of six chil-
dren to inherit his good name and vird

1 1 is de-ivndant- were later repr
the families of the Boisaubins. I'eaupland-
and Thebauds, of Madi.-oii, Xcw Je-

latter al-n of Xew York Cityi. and
the Van Schal-Kwyck de I' i-aubin- and
Formons of France, most of whom look-
rank amongst our most distinguished cit-

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izens, and did honor to their noble ancestor.
The eldest son, named Boisaubin, was a
graduate at the United States Military
Academy at West Point, and died in the
service of his country.

HANCOCK, John,

Famous Old Clergyman.

Among the first representatives of the
Methodist ministry in Morris county was
John Hancock, "a unique man of Chatham
township, whose character may be summed
up in the words which describe Barnabas —
'a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and
faith.' "

He was born in Springfield. New Jersey,
in 17/6; and, left fatherless when eight
months old, he was carried in his mother's
arms from the blackened ruins of the
village, burned by the British, to Madison.
His advantages were few but his diligence
was great. The first book he ever owned
was "A New Geographical, Historical and
Commercial Grammar, and Present State
of the Several Kingdoms of the World."
This be bought for six dollars, all obtained
from selling hazelnuts gathered in the even-
ing when his work was done, for at that
time he was serving as an apprentice in
Columbia. He thoroughly mastered the
contents of that book. He early began to
write, and all through his long life his
thoughts flowed into rhyme as easily as into
prose, his words having some of the rude
quaintness of Bunyan. His early religious
exercises were genuine and deep. He joined
the Methodist Episcopal church in 1801,
and learning to speak in the class-meeting,
he soon went forth into school-houses,
private dwellings and wherever a door was
open, publishing the glad tidings. In 1803
he was licensed as a local preacher, in 1814
ordained as a deacon, and in 1833 ordained
as elder by Bishop Hedding. His own
house, as soon as it was completed, in 1803,
was opened for a regular place of preaching,
and continued to be so used until 1832. For

the remainder of his life, while still sup-
porting his family by his business and farm,
he preached in the circuit formed by Flan-
ders, Paterson, Newark, Rahway and New
Providence, in heat and cold, in sunshine
and storm, his expenses generally more than
his receipts, but he continued his work, ever
fulfilling the injunction, "As ye go, preach."
He had a great fund of humor, which, how-
ever, he kept within bounds. He died in
great peace, in full possession of his facul-
ties, in his seventy-eighth year, leaving
blessed memories behind him in all these
neighborhoods. Close by his dwelling Mr.
Hancock had set apart a portion of land for
a family cemetery, which in his will he made
"a public burial place." Near the entrance,
and in full view of those who pass by, was
long to be seen a square board tablet, sus-
tained by two tall posts, on which was
painted in large yellow letters, some homely
but practical lines, written by himself and
commencing thus :

Ye travelers through the vale of strife
To endless death or endless life,
Here you may learn midst joy or tears
The end of worldly hopes or fears.

HINCHMAN, Guy M.,

Noble Old-Time Character.

Guy Maxwell Hinchman was born in
Newtown, Tioga county (now Elmira,
Chemung county), New York, on Novem-
ber 29, 1795. He was of English descent,
his grandfather, Joseph Hinchman, having
been a surgeon in the English navy during
the hostilities with the French in 1757, and
subsequently married Anna Griffing and set-
tled on Long Island. Their children were:
John, James. Nathaniel, William and Jo-
seph.

The last named was born in Jamaica,
Long Island, August 28, 1762, and was the
father of Guy M. Hinchman. Joseph
Hinchman Jr., when sixteen years of age,
enlisted in the patriot army and took part
in a number of severe engagements, also

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suffering the privations and hardships at-
tending the winter encampment at Morris-
town. When his term of enlistment expired
he studied medicine with his uncle, Dr.
James Hinchman, at Florida, Orange coun-
ty, New York, and commenced to practice
at Minnisink. in the same county. On
December 20, 1787, he married Zerviah
Seely, a daughter of B. Seely, of Mil ford,
on the Delaware. In 1788 he removed to
the town of Chemung, Montgomery (after-
ward Tioga) county, New York, and in
1793 he changed his residence to Newtown
(now Elmira) in the same county, having
the distinction of being the first physician
and surgeon to locate in that county. By a
commission dated February 18, 1795, he was
appointed by Governor George Clinton
sheriff of Tioga county, which then com-
prised the present counties of Tioga, Che-
mung, Broome, and a portion of Chenango.
On November 13, 1800, he was appointed
by Governor John Jay a commissioner to
inspect and improve the road leading from
Catskill Landing, Greene county, to Cather-
inestown, Tioga county. Among Dr. Hinch-
man's warm personal friends was Guy Max-
well, after whom he named his second son,
the subject of this review. Mr. Maxwell
was a merchant and a prominent citizen of
Tioga county. He originally settled there
as a trader with the Seneca Indians, one of
the tribes in the Iroquois confederacy. In
consideration of his name he presented his
namesake with one hundred acres of land
at the head of the Seneca lake. There were
born to Dr. Hinchman and his wife six chil-
dren— Stella, Lesbia, Hiram, Guy M., Zer-
viah and Felix. Hiram and Zerviah died
in infancy. Dr. Hinchman died July 23,
1802, and his widow was remarried in 1807
to Isaac Baldwin, of Chemung, and died
May 17, 1810.

In August, 1810, in compliance with the
wishes of his mother, expressed shortly be-
fore her death, Guy M. Hinchman, in com-
pany with his uncle, Samuel S. Seely,
started for New Jersey, traveling on horse-

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back. \ large part of the juumry IK made
alone, his uncle parting company with him
at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Tin- tif-
teen-year-old lad accomplished the di lance
between Wilkes-Barre and Flanders, N( .•.
Jersey, in less than two days, arriving at t lie-
residence of his uncle, William Ilinchman,
late in the afternoon of the second day,
thus displaying early in life the same energy
and determination that were his dominant
characteristics in later years. After a rest
of a few days he commenced his business
career by taking the position of junior clerk
in the store of his uncle, James Hinrinnan,
at Succasunna Plains, the senior clerks being
William F. Kerr and Chilion F. DeCamp.
He remained so employed until 1815, divid-
ing his time between the store at Succasunna
and a supply store at Brookland, at the
outlet of Lake Hopatcong, where his uncle
had a four-fire bloomery forge and a grist
and saw mill. At the close of the year 1814
he went to the Mount Pleasant mine near
Dover and took charge of affairs, his uncle
having a short time previously purchased
the mine of Moses Tuttle for the sum of
four thousand dollars, payable in monthly
installments of iron ore. In the latter part
of 1815 he purchased from his uncle and
his cousin, John R. Hinchman, their interest
in the mine property, by paying each of
them nine hundred dollars, and obligating
himself to pay to Moses Tuttle the balance
due him on the monthly installments of
ore, as stipulated in their contract. This
he subsequently did, and received from
Moses Tuttle a title to the mine. He con-
tinued to operate the mine for seven years,
and in the fall of 1822 he sold the property
to Nathaniel Corwin for the sum of three
thousand dollars. During this period Mr.
Hinchman could mine as much ore in six
months as he could dispose of during the
entire year, notwithstanding the fact that
the Mount Pleasant ore was considered
equal, and by some superior, to that pro-
duced by the Dickerson mine at Succasunna.
These two mines supplied all the demands

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for ores used in the bloomery forges of
this section at that time. Money in those
days was a scarce commodity in the com-
munity, and Mr. Hinchman received as pay
for ores sold, bloomery iron drawn into
octagonal bars under the forge hammer.
In order to find a market for the iron thus
obtained, he was obliged to haul it by teams
to Elizabethtown Point for shipment to
New York, where he converted it into mer-
chandise or money, as his necessities de-
manded. In the spring of 1823 Mr. Hinch-
man removed with his family to New York,
where he entered into partnership with Wil-
liam H. Hinchman in the wholesale grocery
business, at No. 10 South street. He first
resided in Stone street, then in the heart of
the city; but, his family increasing, it was
deemed best for the health of the young
children to change his residence to the
suburbs ; so he removed to Broome street,
a short distance from Broadway, which at
that time was thought to be well in the
country. In 1825 his partner died, and he
continued the business alone until 1834,
when his health having become impaired,
he was compelled to relinquish his business
and go to the country with his family. He
spent the winter of 1835 at Longwood, with
his brother-in-law. Chilion F. DeCamp. His
health was so much improved by the brac-
ing mountain air of that region that in the
spring of that year, at the solicitation of
Henry McFarlan, he accepted the manage-
ment of the Dover iron works, owned by
Blackwell & McFarlan, but at that time
rented by Henry McFarlan. and subse-
quently purchased by him. Mr. Hinchman
entered into his new position May 5, 1835.
and continued in the supervision of the
works until July, 1869, when the iron busi-
ness became depressed, and Mr. McFarlan,
finding himself perfectly easy in his business
affairs and having no obligations unmatured
or outstanding, decided to close his
business and dispose of his mills. These
works were for their day quite ex-
tensive, and had an enviable reputation for

the quality of their products. They con-
sisted of a puddling and rolling mill for the
manufacture of refined iron; a rivet mill,
where boiler rivets and brace-jaws were
produced ; and a steel furnace, where iron
was converted into blister steel by the odd
process of carburizing iron bars by im-
bedding them in charcoal powder and ex-
posing them to a temperature above red-
ness. During the thirty-four years of his
connection with the works, Mr. Hinchman
became so closely identified with the busi-
ness and his relations with Mr. McFarlan
were so cordial and confidential that he
conducted its affairs as if it had been in
fact his own property.

On January 29, 1841. Mr. Hinchman was
elected president of the Union Bank of
Dover, which office he held until 1866, when
the tax on the issues of State banks be-
came so onerous that it was deemed best by
the stockholders to discontinue the business
and place their capital in other channels of
trade. This bank had the unique distinc-
tion of having its bills pass current in every
State of the Union, which was at variance
with the general run of State banks of the
period, whose bills of issue would hardly
pass current outside of their immediate
vicinity, to say nothing of circulating in
other States. The high esteem in which
this bank was held arose from two causes,
one being its excellent management, and the
other that its bills were redeemed in gold
or its equivalent on presentation in New
York at the banking house of Vermilye &
Company or the importing house of Phelps,
Dodge & Company, the last named being
large stockholders in the institution. The
bills of the Union Bank had an exchange
value which made them eagerly sought for
by bankers and merchants throughout the
country.

Mr. Hinchman was for many years the
best known man in Dover, and one of its
most prominent citizens, both in its business
and social world. During the forty-four
years of his residence there he saw it grow

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from a small hamlet into an incorporated
city, and he was always actively interested in
its progress and welfare. He was a man
of strong character, positive in his tastes
and fearless in the defence of his opinions,
yet withal generous, frank and lovable. He
possessed an artistic temperament, as was
evinced by his love of flowers. For many
years he had the most beautiful and care-
fully cultivated flower garden in this sec-
tion of the country. He was also an adept
with both the pen and the brush, and many
examples of his artistic skill are still pre-
served which were executed by him after
reaching the psalmist's limit of three-score
years and ten. In personal appearance Mr.
Hinchman was of short and sturdy build,
of a florid complexion and possessing the
ornate manners of the old-senool gentle-
man of his day. During his youth and
early manhood he engaged actively in all
forms of athletic sports, in all of which he
displayed great proficiency. His penchant,
however, was the use of the rifle and fowl-
ing-piece, and his quickness, steady nerve
and accurate eye placed him in the front
rank of marksmen and wing shots. He
was wont to show with pardonable pride
targets made by him with the rifle at the
old "Thatched Cottage" garden in Jersey
City, which were marvels of marksmanship.
This famous shooting range was the mecca
of riflemen living in the vicinity of New
York, and he once had the honor to contest
there for supremacy with Davy Crockett,
of Kentucky fame. Crockett was handi-
capped by the use of a strange rifle and did
not make the showing he might otherwise
have done. Originally, Mr. Hinchman was
in politics a Whig, later becoming an ardent
Republican, taking an active interest in na-
tional, state and municipal affairs, and al-
ways having the courage to express his
convictions. He never held any political
office. He was a member of the Masonic
fraternity and obtained his degrees from
the lodge that held its meetings at Berkshire
Valley.

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On August 1 6, i8it\, \\r ihm-ltman
was united in niarn.i;.;. to Mi - Susan
Grand! n Del amp. a daughtei oi I- i ph and
Jane (Tuttle) DeCamp. the latter a lineal
descendant of the "Widow Ford, who i-ame
over in the Fortune," in November. 1621.
Nine children were born to them: A|
infant, who died in childhood; Zerviah and
Felix, who were born at M.mut Pleasant;
Augustus, James, Louisa and Stella, in New
York; and Sophronia and another infant,
the latter dying shortly after birth, at
Dover. Air. Hinchman died in the house In
which he had resided since 1837, on Febru-
ary 13, 1879, being then in his eighty-fourth
year. He retained his mental and physical
activity until the time of his death, which,
in fact, resulted from a cold contracted by
him while exercising a young horse under
saddle during the inclement winter weather.
At his own request his former pastor, Dr.
B. C. Magie, preached the funeral sermon,
taking as his text Genesis xxv, 8: "He
died in a good old age, an old man and
full of years." He was buried in the family
lot in Locust Hill Cemeterv, in Dover.

GREENE, Henry P.,

Old-Time Physician.

In the first half of the nineteenth cen-
tury Dr. Greene was one of the most prom-
inent, influential and honored citizens of
Morris county. His life was characterized
by all that is good and true, and the splen-
did characteristics of his nature commanded
the respect of all who knew him. while hi-
memory is still cherished by those who en-
joyed his friendship and his regard.

Dr. Henry Prentice Greene was born in
Calais, Vermont, December i. 1798. and
was of English descent, belonging to one
of the oldest American families. In direct
line his ancestry can be traced back to
Thomas Greene, who was born in England
in 1606, and emigrated to the New World
about 1635. His son. Captain William
Greene, was born in Ipswich, Massachu-

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setts, in 1635, and was the father of Wil-
liam Greene, who was born in Maiden,
Massachusetts, in 1661. The last named
had a son, Captain Nathaniel Greene, who
was born in Maiden, September 28, 1689,
and served as captain of the first foot com-
pany of Leicester, in 1743. His son, Rev.
Nathaniel Greene, the grandfather of Dr.
Henry P. Greene, was born in Charlestown
End, in 1721, and his son, Rufus Greene,
was a native of Leicester, Massachusetts,
born April 10, 1762. He married Keziah
Eddy, of Brookfield, Massachusetts, a rep-
resentative of one of the old New England
families.

Dr. Greene received a thorough prepara-
tory training in public and private schools,
and was for some years successfully en-
gaged in teaching. Determining, however,
to make the practice of medicine his life
work, he began his preparation for his
chosen calling in the office and under the
direction of Drs. Jepthah B. Munn &
Whelpley, of Morristown, and was gradu-
ated at the Columbia College of Physicians
and Surgeons, of New York. He then be-
gan practice in New Vernon, Morris county,
in April, 1826, and removed to Madison in
1828, at the request of the most prominent
citizens of the place. He continued his
practice there for thirty years, and his su-
perior ability in the line of his chosen pro-
fession brought him a very large patronage.
He was always a student of his profession,
earnestly doing all in his power to gain per-
fection in his work and thus bring relief to
suffering humanity. He was a man of deep
sympathy and had a sincere love for his
fellow-men that led him to do all in his
power for those whom he served, and often
he was found at the bedside of a sufferer
from whom no financial reward might be
hoped. In his political predilections Dr.
Greene was a Whig, and was honored with
a number of local offices. He held mem-
bership in the Presbyterian church, and for
a number of years served as a member of
its board of trustees and took a very active

part in promoting its cause in the neighbor-
hood. His moral standard was high and
he lived up to it. His word was as good
as his bond ; he was the soul of honor, and
the better one knew him the greater the
respect, the warmer the friendship sustained
for him. His life was that of a big-souled,
large-minded, noble-hearted Christian gen-
tleman.

Dr. Greene was married, August 15, 1829,
to Sarah Joanna Crowell, born April 12,
1803, a native of Newark, and a daughter
of David and Mehitable (Beach) Crowell,
of Newark. They were the parents of six
children, three of whom grew to maturity :
Mary Augusta; Everett M., born October
5, 1834, died March 15, 1855; and Alice
Linden. Dr. Greene owned a pleasant home
in Madison, and forty acres of land which
now lies within the heart of that city. He
was a man of domestic tastes, and found
his greatest pleasure in promoting the hap-
piness and enhancing the welfare of his
family. He died October 15, 1858, and his
wife, who was a most estimable lady, great-
ly beloved for her many excellencies of
character, died April 20, 1851.

VANATTA, Hon. Jacob,

Lawyer, Public Official.

Hon. Jacob Vanatta was born on the
banks of the Musconetcong, near Washing-
ton, Warren county, New Jersey, June 4,
1824. He early devoted all the time he
could possibly spare to study and the im-
provement of his mind.

He had always desired to embrace the
profession of the law, and in 1845 ne en~
tered the law office of Theodore Little as
a student. He was licensed as an attorney
in October, 1849, an<3 as a counsellor in
February, 1853. From the very first he
had an extended and lucrative practice. He
quickly assumed a leading position, and in
a short time became the foremost lawyer
in Morris county. There was scarcely an
important case tried in the county, after

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his admission to the bar, that he was not
connected with. In all his cases he was
painstaking and he expended upon them an
amount of thought and labor truly won-
derful. His practice grew, until at the time
of his death it was probably the largest in
the state. His reputation advanced with
his practice, and for years he stood at the
head of the New Jersey bar, as an able,
faithful, conscientious and untiring advo-
cate and counsel.

During the later years of his life Mr.
Vanatta's time and services were largely
monopolized by the great corporations of
the country ; he had become the regular
counsel of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad Company, the Central
Railroad Company, and more or less of
many other corporations, and his engage-
ments carried him frequently before the
highest courts of New York and Pennsyl-
vania and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Vanatta was always a firm, con-
sistent and unwavering Democrat. He was
the recognized head of the party in his
county, and all over the State was for years
regarded as one of its ablest men. In 1856
he was a delegate to the National Conven-
tion that nominated Buchanan. In the
memorable struggle of 1860 he adhered to
the fortunes of Stephen A. Douglas, and
was chairman of the Douglas State Com-
mittee ; as such he refused to join the fusion
ticket, and thus succeeded in dividing the
electoral vote of the State between Mr.
Lincoln and Mr. Douglas. During the war
he followed his chieftain, and was through-
out a war Democrat. At the convention
which nominated General McClellan for
Governor he was appointed chairman of the
State committee, a position he held at the
time of his death.

Mr. Vanatta held few public positions;
he was a member of the House of As-
sembly in the years 1862 and 1863, and
in the latter year was a candidate for the
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against the late William Wright, only fail-
ing by a vote or two in the Democratic
caucus. He was frequently urged to ace |.i
gubernatorial or congressional nominations,
but always declined. At different times he
refused tendered positions on the Supreme
bench of the State. He was appointed at-
torney-general by the Governor, but after
holding the office for about fifteen months
was compelled to resign it because of the
immense pressure of his private practice.

In October, 1852, Mr. Yanatta married a
daughter of Dr. Aaron Dickerson, of Phila-
delphia; she was also a niece of General
Mahlon Dickerson, General Jackson's secre-
tary of the navy and ex-Governor of New
Jersey. In private life Mr. Yanatta was
kind and obliging; he was a safe and judici-
ous adviser, a faithful and steadfast friend,
a good citizen and an honest man. His
life was doubtless sacrificed to his un-
wearied zeal and industry in his profession.
At the same time his whole life furnished
a remarkable instance of what ability, at-
tended with industry and study, can accom-
plish in overcoming adverse circumstances.

The malady which occasioned Mr. Va-
natta's death was Bright's disease of the
kidneys. He died at his residence in Mor-
ristown, April 30, 1879. The funeral ser-
vices, held at the First Presbyterian Church,
were attended by the State officers, judges
of the Supreme Court, and men eminent in
every walk of life. Impressive discourses
were delivered by the Rev. Rufus S. Green,
pastor of the church, and the Rev. David
Irving, D. D., a former pastor.

Resolutions setting forth in fitting terms
the high estimate in which the deceased was
held by his colleagues were passed at meet-
ings of the Essex county and Morris county
bars. The addresses of Theodore Little,
Hon. Augustus W. Cutler. Alfred Mills
Frederick A. De Mott and James H. Neigh-
bour, delivered at the meeting of the Morris
county bar, were most eloquent and touch-
ing personal tributes to the eminent worth

CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW JERSEY

and character of their late colleague and
brother, and a most fitting expression of
their personal grief at the loss occasioned by
his death.

BUDD, Joseph,

Manufacturer, Legislator.

Hon. Daniel Budd was one of the most
influential of the citizens of Chester, both
in business and political circles. He filled
many positions of trust, and did much to
develop the resources and increase the pros-
perity of his native town. Like his father
and his grandfather, he lived and died in
Chester, and the activities of his entire life
were closely identified with the interests of
his native place. His ancestor, John Budd,
five generations before, emigrated from
England to New Haven, about the year
1632, and became one of the first proprietors
of that settlement. He subsequently re-
moved to Southold, Long Island, and thence
to Rye, Westchester county. New York.

Daniel Budd, the grandfather of the sub-
ject of our sketch, moved from Rye, New
York, together with his father, John Budd,
in the early part of the eighteenth century,
and purchased the old Budd farm, near
Black river. His mother was Mary Strang
(L'Estrange), daughter of a French Hugue-
not, who fled from France on account of
religious persecution, in the days of Louis
XIV. and found refuge at New Rochelle,
Connecticut. Romantic stories of danger
and escape have been handed down from
generation to generation. This Daniel Budd
was for a long time assessor of the township
of Roxiticus, and a captain in the reserves
of the Revolutionary War. On one oc-
casion, during his absence on duty his house
was burned, under circumstances which led
to the suspicion that it was an act of re-
venge on the part of the Tories.

Joseph Budd, son of this Daniel, and
father of Hon. Daniel Budd, was a captain
in the War of 1812. He commanded his
company at Sandy Hook and other places of

defense. His wife was Joanna Swayzee,
and after her husband had lost his health
during the war, which he never recovered,
she endeavored bravely to fill his place in
many of the active duties of farm life. Their
son, Daniel, was born June 8, 1809. When
a boy he had much of the charge of his
invalid father, and after his death remained
with his mother upon the farm as long as
she lived. He was married, February 25,
1847, to Mary K. Hunt, daughter of John
Hunt, of Newton, Sussex county, and sis-
ter of Hon. Samuel H. Hunt. He was en-
gaged at various times in many avenues of
active business — being a farmer, manufac-
turer, surveyor, drover, colonel of cavalry,
and a general business man, settling estates
and holding positions of confidence. He
was always prominent in the political af-
fairs of his township, and for many years
was returned as a freeholder, and in the
board of freeholders always exercised a
commanding influence. In the years 1856-
1857 he was a member of the New Jersey
Legislature, and in the years 1860-61-62 he
filled the office of State senatoi. While
senator he was chairman of the committee
on corporations, and a member of other im-
portant committees, and was chosen State
director of the Camden and Amboy Rail-
road. For many years he carried on the
business of manufacturing malleable iron,
and devoted much time and energy to the
development of the mineral resources of
Chester. To him may be attributed largely
the building and completion of the Chester
Railroad.

He was a friend to the poor, ever ready
to contribute to their wants, and to assist
those who were struggling in business, and
he was a liberal supporter of the church and
of public enterprises. He erected many
buildings for manufacturing purposes, and
took the warmest interest in the cause of
education. In 1869 he erected in the village
a large three-story stone building for the
use of a boarding school, at a cost of many
thousand dollars.

358

CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW JERSKY

He died in June, 1873, at the age of sixty- from various part- of the State, accom-

four, leaving a wide breach in the com- panied his remains to their last resting place

munity where he had lived and labored ; and in the cemetery of 1 'Irasant 1 lill.
an immense concourse of people, gathered

359

INDEX

Abbett, Ezekiel, 28

Leon, 28
Acton, Benjamin, 128

Edward A., Capt, 129

Frances B., 130

Isaac, 128

John, 128

Jonathan W., 128, 129

Samuel, 128

Alexander, Archibald, Rev.,
26

William C., 26
Allen, Joseph W., Col., 30

William F., 30
Atwater, Edward S., 131

Gertrude, 132

Lyman H., Rev., 131

Babbitt, Mary E., 158

Robert M., 158

Robert O., 158
Ball, Edward, 146

Ezekiel, 147

Frederick W., 148

Horace W., 147

James T., 146, 147

Oliver, 147

Samuel, 147

Thomas, 147
Banister, Adelaide, 138

Elijah, 137

Isaac, 137

James A., 136, 137
Barnett, James G., 321

William H., 321
Barrett, Hugh C., 199

Michael T., Col., 198

Timothy, 198
Bassett, Fannie, 263

George F., 263
Beasley, Frederick, Rev., 83

Mercer, 83
Beattie, Robert, 314, 315

Ruth, 315
Bechtel, Alice B., 175

Wellington, 175
Bedle, Althea R., 235

Joseph D., Gov., 235
Bennett, Anna M., 192

David H., 192

William, 192
Bentley, Christopher. 211

Peter, Sr., 210

Peter (2nd), 322
Bigelow, Eliza R., 173

Moses, 171

Moses, Jr., 173

Timothy, 171
Bodine, Daniel B., 189

Francis, 188

Jean, 188

John, 189

Joseph L., Dr., 188, 189

Stacy, 189

Boggs, Charles S., 55
Bonnell, Adelaide, 106

Samuel, 105

Samuel, Jr., 105
Borcherling, Charles F., 220

Charles G. A., 220

Mary L., 221
Breakenridge, Andrew, 196

Emily, 196

John H., 196
Breese, Arthur, 177

James B., Capt, 177, 178

Josephine O., 178

Samuel, Col., 177

Sidney, Hon., 177
Brooks, Barker, 26

Noah, 26
Brown. Abel, Rev., 142

363

Abel S., 142, 143

Charlotte, 144
Browning, Eva B., 295

John, 294

John H., 293, 295

Nathaniel, 293

Thomas, 294

William, 294
Brumley, Horace T., 77

Irene, 78

Joseph, 77
Budd, Andrews E., Dr., 328

Eckard P., 328

Eliza E., 329
Burns, John, 31

Cadmus. Emilie V., 112

Stephen V. C., 112

Thomas J., 112
Campbell, Elizabeth M., 123

David F., 122

Edward S., 122
Cleveland, Grover, 23

Richard F., Rev., 23
Coles, Abraham, 3

Dennis, 3

Helen E., 146

J. Ackerman, Dr., 3

William C., 146
Condit, Aaron P., 73

Samuel, 73
Cooke, Watts, 112
Coxe, John R., Dr., 247
Crane, John W., 263

Moses M., 263

Stephen, 263
Crawford, Mary P., 230

Thomas, Jr., 229, 230

Thomas. Sr., 230
Creveling, Anna M., 121

Augustus. 121

INDEX

A. W., 121
Cross, Joseph, 126

Mary P., 127

William, 127
Grouse, Frederick, 230

Otto, Hon., 230
Cuthbert, Anthony, Capt, 316

Fanny C, 317

Mayland, 316

Samuel, 316

Daniels, Charlotte A., 327
Thomas, 326, 327
Thomas E., 327
De Camp, John, Rear Admir-
al, 218

Delp, Anne E., 194
George, 193
James A. H., 192, 193
Dick, John, Rev., 52

Samuel, Dr., 52
Dickinson, Garetta, 202
John, 201
Philemon, 201
Philemon, Gen., 201
Samuel M., Gen., 201
Dixon, Jonathan, 78
Doremus, Cornelius, 261, 262
Elias O., 261, 262
Peter, 262
Peter C., 262

Douglas, Frederick S., 115
Jane W., 115
Samuel, 115
Drake, Edward C., 145
James W., Col., 145
Drew, Thomas, 276

Annie, 276
Dryden, John, 94

John R, 94

Dubar, Charles L., 228
Marie A. M., 229
Matthias, 229
Dunham, David, 186
John, 1 86, 187
John S., 185
Sering P., 186
Dunlop, George, 292

Jeannie, 293

John, 292
Du Pont, Samuel F., 37

Victor M., 37
Durand, Asher B., 248

Cyrus, 248
Duryee, Amy C., 336

Edward H., 338

George, 335

Joseph K., 336

Peter S., 335

William R., Rev., 336

Eakin, Alphonso L., 35

Constant M., 35, 36
Elkinton, Eleanor, 258

William T., 258
Elliott, Alexander, 109

Robert W., 109
Ellison, Lewis, 121

Michael E., Rev., 121

Flemming, Isaac, 227

James, Jr., 227

*Forman, John B., 235

Jonathan, 235

Robert, 235
Fort, George F., 47
Francis, Edward W., 135, 136

William, 135

William A., 135
Freeman, Alexander H., 251

Ginevra, 252

Joseph, 251

Samuel, 251

Uzal W., 251

Wilberforce, 252

Gilchrist, Robert, Hon., 221
Godley, Augustus, 242

John F., 242, 243

Sarah E., 243

William, 242
Goodbody, Margaret J., 326

Robert, 325
Goodwin, Eleanor H., 64

Hannibal, Rev., 63
Graham, Archibald, 216

James, 216

James A., 216
Sarah L., 216
Green, Ashbel, Rev., 91
James S., 91
Robert S., 91

Hamill, Edward H., Dr, 120

Edward J., Rev., 120

Emma J., 121

Hardenbergh, Augustus A.,
225

Cornelius L., 225

Jacob R., Rev., 225
Harrison, Joseph, 51

Josiah, 51

Jotham, 51

Richard, 51

Stephen, 51
Hasbrouck, Washington, Dr.,

224
Hayes, Adelaide, 231

Charles, 231

Frederick T., 231

Henry W., 231

Jabez W., 231

William, 231
Hinchliffe, John, 289

John D., 290
Holden, Asa, 330

Edgar, Dr., 330

John, 330

Justinian, 330
Hollinsh'ead, Charles S., 208

Joseph H., 208

Margaret S., 210
Hopper, Abram G., 190

Garrett, 190

Sarah A., 191
House, Jacob, 130

Jonathan, 131

William, 131
Howe, Edwin J., Dr., 118

John M., Rev., 118
Hull, Joseph, 294
Hunt, Henry, 114

Sylvester H., Dr., 114

William E., 165

*See Addenda, last page of Index.

364

INDEX

Huston, Alexander, 271
Henry, Judge, 270
James B., 271
John, 271
Laura A., 272

Jackson, James, 259

Percy, 261

Peter, 259

William, 258, 260
Johnson, Fanny V., 309

J. Augustus, 308

Lorenzo D., Rev., 308
Jordan, Charles, 196

Elizabeth A., 196

Kalisch, Burnham, Rev., 331

Isidor, Rev., 331

Samuel, 334
Kean, John, 175, 176

Julian H., 176

Peter P. J., 175
Kellam (Kellum), Luther, 174

Luther H., 174

Samuel H., 174

Samuel L., 174
Kidd, Harry J., 140

Lillian M., 142

William, 141

Kilpatrick, Hugh J., Gen., 93
Kinney, Thomas T., 313

William B., 313
Kirkpatrick, Andrew, 310

John B., 310
Kunsman, Amos, 223

Leola, 224

Ladd, Benjamin R, 311, 312

Harvey H., 312

Julia M., 313

Samuel, 311
Lambert, Antonia, 198

George, 197

George H., 197
Lanning, Elijah, 168

Elijah W., 168

Kenneth H., 169

Nathaniel, 168

Robert, 1 68

Stephen, 168

William M., Hon., 168
Lebkuecher, Francis, 226

Julius A., 226

Louise, 227
Lee, Annabella W., 205

Benjamin F., 205

Francis, 202

Francis B., 202, 206

Thomas, 204
Lewis, Charles, 278

Griffith, 278

Griffith W., 277, 278

Howard F., 279
Lindsley, Adele H., 324

James H., 323

John, 323

Peter, 323
Livingston, Gilbert, Col, 179

Henry, 179

Henry, Maj., 179

Robert, Col., 179
Lockward, John T., Dr., 1 10

Lewis G., no

Robert C, 1 1 1
Ludlow, George C., 91

Macllvaine, Anne, 165

Edward S., 159, 163. 164

John, 161

Joseph, 161

William, 161

William R., 164
Mackie, Arthur H., 41

Elise, 41
McCarter, John, 75

Robert, 75

Robert H., 75

Thomas N., 75
McGill. Alexander T., 99
McKenzie, James J., 319

William, 317, 318
McPherson, Donald, 200

James, 200

John R., 200
Maddock, Harry S., 179, 180

John, 1 80

365

Thomas, 180

.Manners, David, Capl., -'17
David S., 217
Edwin, 228
John, 217

Ml . Ill II, Ml,

Edward, 50

Ellen, 52

James \V., 49, 50

Maria I !.. 51

William, 50
Meeker, John H., 103

Samuel, 103
Mellsop, Charles, 195

John, 195
Merselis, Edo, 245

Edo I., 244, 246

Gabriel, 244

Gerrit, 246

Jan, 244

John D., 246

Marcelis P., 245

Pieter, 244, 245

Sarah V., 247
Miller, Jacob W., 36

William W., 36
Moses, David, 106

John, 1 06
Myers, Amelia O., 118

James L., 118

\Yilliam T., 118

Nast, Thomas, 29
Nelson, Cornelius M., 102

Salome W., 150

Samuel C., 102

Thomas, 149

William, 148, 149

Oberly, Benjamin, 296
Henry H., Rev., 295, 296

Orcutt, Calvin B., 156
Harriet M., 157
Phineas C., 156

Parker, Charles, 57
Joel, 57
Thomas, 57

INDEX

Parsons, Abraham, 213

Ella, 215

Ellwood, 212, 215

George, 212

Isaac, 214

John, 212

Thomas, 213
Peck, Aaron, 85

Cyrus, 85

Henry, 85

William H., 86
Peddle, Thomas B., 48
Pemberton, Jane, 1 1 1

Samuel H., in

William M., in
Perry, James, 325
Peterson, Benjamin, 139

Bertel, 140

Mary, 140
Pettit, Alonzo, Dr., 272

Ellen M., 273

Samuel, 272
Phillips, Alice L., 125

Franklin, 124, 125

John M., 125
Pierson, Isaac, Dr., 305

Margaret, 307

Matthias, Dr., 304

Samuel, 304

Thomas, 304

William, Dr., 304, 305

William, Jr., Dr., 306
Plum, John, 268

Matthias, 268

Samuel, 268

Stephen H., 268, 269

Stephen H., Jr., 269
Pope, Jeremiah, 100

Samuel, 100
Prescott, Charles J., 302

Clara, 302

Quinby, James M., 40
Jotham, 40
Thomas, 40

Randolph, Bennington F., 232,
233

Edward, 233

Eliza H., 235

Francis C. F., 233

James F., 308

Joseph F., 233

Robert F., 233

Theodore F., 338
Rankin, Anna A., 154

John C, Jr., 153

John C., Rev., 153
Ransom, Amasa, 219

Ann B., 167

Charles A., 166, 167

Stephen B., 219
Rhoads, Beulah S., 258

Charles, 255, 257

James, 257

John, 257

Joseph, 257
Ricord, Elizabeth, 88

Frederick W., 88

Jean B., 88
Robeson, Andrew, 90

George M., 90

William P., 90
Roebling, John A., 43
Rogers, Nancy O., 289

Peter F., Major, 285, 286

Peter J., 286
Romeyn, James, Rev., 254

James V. C., 254

John, 254

Nicholas, 254

Theodore B., Rev., 253, 254

Thomas, Rev., 254
Ropes, Benjamin, 300

David N., 299, 300

George, 299

John, 300

Lydia L., 302

Samuel, 300

Timothy, 300
Row, James W., 194

Sophia, 194

William, 194
Rumsey, Benjamin, 33

Charles, 33

Constance, 34
366

George B., 32, 34

George C., 33

Henry M., 32, 33

William, 33
Runyon, Abraham, 67

Theodore, 67
Rust, Andrew, 250

George P., 249, 250
Rutherfurd, John, 54

Robert W., 54

Sandford, Arthur E., 105

Theodore, 104, 105

William, 104

William M., 104
Sewell, William J., 73
Shippen, Edward, 162

Edward, Judge, 163

Joseph, 162
Smith, Charles, 182

Charles P., 181, 182

Elizabeth A., 185

George W., 182

Pen-in, 182
Spellmeyer, Henry, Rev., 236

Matilda, 241

Matthias H., 239
Stephens, John L., 42
Stockton, Charles S., Dr., 107

John P., 90

Martha A., 109

Richard, 90, 107

Robert F., 90

Stacy, 107
Stoddard, Anthony, 60

Anthony, Rev., 60

Eliakim, 60

Elijah W., Rev., 59, 61

Eliza A., 62

John, 61

Solomon, Rev., 60

William, 60
Strong, Joseph, Rev., 77

Theodore, 77

Woodbridge, 76, 77
Sutton, Frederick, 241

George, 241

Talmage, David T., 71

Thomas D. W., Rev., 71
Ten Eyck, John C, 56
Tomlin, Florence E., 242

Francis H., 242
Townsend, Charles, Rev., 133

Charles, Hon., 133

Mary L., 134

Nathaniel, 275

Zebulon E., 275
Tuers, Laura M., 67

W. J., 67

Van Duyne, Elizabeth F., 284

Harrison, 282

James, 282

John, 282

John R., 282

Martin, 282

Ralph, 282
Van Houten, Anthony B., 69

Edmund, 71

Martin, 69
Vreeland, Michael J., 65

Warren, 65
Vroom, Garret D. W., 79

George, 79

INDEX

Peter D., Col., 79
Peter D., Gov., 79

Wagenhals, Lincoln A., 136

Caroline L., 136
Walker, John A., 1 16
Ward, Leslie D., 81

Moses D., 8 1
Werts, George T., 276

Peter, 276
West, Arthur P., 139

Charles A., 138, 139

Charles W., Col., 138

Henry A., Capt., 138
Whelpley, Edward W., 58

William A., Dr., 58
Whitehead, John, 86
Whitney, Eben, Capt., 319

George, D., 319, 320

George H., Rev., 280, 281

Henrietta, 282

Henry, 280

Jared, 281

John, 281

Richard, 281

Samuel A., 319

Thomas H., 319, 320

Willi.mi. 281

Wood, i.rorjM- I!.. Dr., 249
U ' ight, I '.i njamiii. 266

I 'Iwanl 1 1 , Maj., 265

K«lum \< \ , Si

William. 266

William. Mr .

Yard. Ar.-hibald W.. 178
ard M.. 178

Kdward M.. < 'apt., 179

Joseph, 178

Richard. 17^

William, 178
Yard ley, ( 'liarlf- P.., 155

Margaret T., 155

Samuel S., 155
Young. Charles E., 298

Edward F. C., 222

Henry, Jr., 299

Henry. Sr., 297, 298

John, 298

John, Rev., 222

Robert, 298

Zabriskie, Abraham O., 45

ADDENDA AND ERRATA

Forman, Foreman, p. 235. Names were subject to many changes, and there is a reason,
however, for the Foreman, as in early times, when conditions suggested names,
twins having been born to the Marie Antoinette family, the first one was called
Foreman, hence the name. On the tombstones (usually correct) Forman is in
evidence at Old Scots burying ground at Wickoff Hill and at Old Tennent Church.
Robert Foreman signed his will at Oyster Bay with a double f. as ff, but High
Sheriff Samuel, grandson of Robert Foreman, gave his name as Samuel For-
man, dropping the e, and from that time it has been so used.

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